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Example sentences for "silk dress"

  • Decima wore a silk dress, Lucy a white one; each made evening fashion.

  • I don't wear a silk dress; to be scolded for it, if it gets spoiled.

  • She wore a silk dress, gold in one light, green in another, with broad crimson stripes running across it; her cap was of white lace garnished with crimson ribbons, and her cheeks and nose were crimson to match.

  • You must make over Aunt Caroline's silk dress.

  • On one occasion, when Carry was there, Aunt Caroline had brought out this silk dress.

  • So do I," said the other, "and pa said I should have all I earn till there's enough to get a silk dress.

  • But Katie failed to be infected with a desire for a silk dress.

  • I think you better have had rubbers than a silk dress!

  • That's my silk dress," she said, regarding it fondly.

  • Silk dress" was something we were extremely interested in, but I cannot recollect that we were ever in the least afraid.

  • It all happened through "Silk dress" and "Rumpus.

  • A delicate gray-silk dress, a dainty lace cap, a perfect self-possession, a dignified presence.

  • Yes, there were very few possessions in that light trunk, but the first glance showed me a blue-silk dress, and seal-skin jacket and hat.

  • Was dressed in a blue-silk dress, and seal-skin jacket and hat.

  • Now, when she was married, she had a silk dress, of which she said her husband had been proud enough when they were walking together.

  • Why, Eliza, I never had a silk dress in my life; and I don't think I ever shall.

  • To think of the wife of a poor man making such a fuss about a silk dress!

  • The cause was this: none of the guests were in a station much superior to her own, yet she found herself the only one who had not a silk dress: hers was a print, and shabby.

  • Why, Miss Barrett offered me a silk dress if I would do as she told me.

  • Later Fanchon unfastened the buttons of the red-silk dress, helped Carol to prepare for bed, and then turned out the light.

  • Why, Sylvia Clayburn had on a pink-silk dress at the fair.

  • The young wife was perfectly happy, not so much because she actually wore the silk dress, as because Valentine's mother thought her worthy to wear it.

  • He asked her: 'Where did you get that beautiful silk dress from?

  • How Michal's silk dress rustled as she walked along the streets!

  • It's only a silk dress, and some lace trimming.

  • I'm sure it's not a silk dress; I feel something much firmer and stiffer than a silk dress.

  • I tell you it's only a silk dress," reiterated Miss B.

  • And here I at last got a chance to get rid of my silk dress, which was a thing that my wife hardly required while travelling about, and I had been trying to dispose of it ever since I obtained it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both church and state; dairy products; flood plain; girl friend; good knight; known work; matters relating; natural size; official residence; opera company; printed paper; provisional order; put them; silk dress; silk handkerchief; silk purse; silk stockings; silk thread; silky hair; solid rock; sown early; subject only; three boys; three times round the; unaccented syllable; will wait