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Example sentences for "silk stockings"

  • You in silk stockings," said that gentleman.

  • Silk stockings, however, in consequence of their high price, were for a long time used only on very grand occasions.

  • This person is said to have declared that the inventor was a journeyman locksmith of Lower Normandy, who gave a pair of silk stockings, his own workmanship, to Colbert, in order that they might be presented to Louis XIV.

  • I'd like to have a pair of silk stockings, but I haven't much money with me.

  • For some years longer, silk stockings continued to be a great rarity.

  • Silk stockings, to break up one's comfort for!

  • In the first place, then, you must remember that there was a great deal said about a pair of my silk stockings.

  • And she's given me a pair of silk stockings," cried Molly, "because she knows my luxurious tastes run to such things.

  • I think I could be more reconciled to Aunt Grace if I thought she'd give me a pair of silk stockings.

  • The hose were a fine tissue-paper imitation of silk stockings!

  • Silk stockings," was the prompt and unanimous answer.

  • A curious Experiment made by Mr. Symmer, on the Electricity of Silk Stockings.

  • I was thinking of my one pair of silk stockings.

  • And now with yellow gloves, silk stockings, shining shoes and a heart as light as a leaf upon a wind she walked towards the Cathedral.

  • She lay down beneath the branching antlers, and smiled before she went to sleep: "One pair of silk stockings .

  • He had stored safely in the cave six dozen pairs of silk stockings.

  • The price of silk stockings is scandalous, and unless something is done about it poor girls like me won't be able to live at all.

  • There was that little parcel of silk stockings," he said, "which I promised to get for you and Mary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always used; bonnie lassie; can tell; certain respects; full confidence; hardy annual; laid bare; long line; make report; might happen; neutral vessels; noble soul; our faith; shall meet; silk dress; silk handkerchief; silk purse; silk stockings; silk thread; silky hair; small folio; tartaric acid; the stranger; the union; throw herself; would present