Besides being of cambric and lawn, these skimpy dresses were made of clear silk net over a foundation of white satin, and all were very short in the waist and in the skirt, which was trimmed with rouleaux of satin.
She was sitting opposite a skimpy little runt with a bald head, at a table up near the door where the waiters juggled soup over her feathers every time they passed.
In a moment one of Miss Duncombe's daintily-shod feet slid forward, her skimpy skirt forming a promontory which effectually hid the disaster from the eyes of others--especially Lady Rendle.
The car consisted mainly of a long, lean, powerful chassis, destitute of ornament and fitted with a skimpy and attenuated body of home manufacture.
No matter about the lumbering shoes and skimpy dress.
Then she untied the narrow black ribbon, wet the comb and plastered the waving curls close to her head, bound them fast, pinned on the skimpy black hat and opened the back door.
The house looked so big, above its surrounding elms, and she felt so little, all at once, in Caroline's skimpy gingham.
She grew very conscious of her skimpydress and her rumpled hair-ribbon.
Beside her was a skimpy little boy, and in her arms a baby.
Still these lovely ladies had not much space assigned to them wherein to bestow their finery when it was not on their backs, and we must expect to find all the wardrobe designs of former times of somewhat skimpy proportions.
And I would have to drag about, heavy-footed, in a skimpy muslin!
He raised the shade; he lay with a puffy arm tucked between his head and the skimpy pillow, looking out on the sliding silhouettes of trees, and village lamps like exclamation-points.
This is my house, and I 'm not going to spoil a good hall by building any skimpy little closets!
The flesh all theseskimpy ones had lost, solid people had put on.
But while you are about it, I'd be thankful if you'd prophesy me a wet trail next time instead of skimpy mud holes where springs ought to be.
The quaint austerity of the skimpy garment brought out the lines of the childish figure as she stood erect and animated before him.
There was a grotesque sweetness in Meg's appearance as she stood there in her skimpy dress, her short dusky hair falling in masses about her neck and over her forehead.
For tumbling into the tent of the Palace of Wonders came a horde of children, boys and girls, the girls dressed exactly alike in skimpy little white lawn dresses trimmed with five-cent lace, the boys in ugly suits of stiff "jeans.
The child sat back on her thin little haunches, one small hand plucking at the skimpy skirt of her own faded blue and white gingham, an exact replica, except for size, of the frocks worn by the three other scrubbers.
In the main room was a thin fire, as skimpy as though it had been lit by a spinster, as, I suppose, it had.
Perhaps it is the hideousness of the skimpy skirt, all open at both sides, that I resent, as much as the fact that it is a uniform marking these women out as apart from their fellows.
The door opened and the skimpy little country girl who waited on me in Fleming's absence, brought in my supper.
I should think you'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you've been wearing.
With a sob she hastily discarded her garments, put on the skimpy nightgown and sprang into bed where she burrowed face downward into the pillow and pulled the clothes over her head.
When Marilla came up for the light various skimpy articles of raiment scattered most untidily over the floor and a certain tempestuous appearance of the bed were the only indications of any presence save her own.
Things were a bit less strained, after that, through the skimpy meal, with its special devices, unique to the asteroids and their tiny gravity.
Their skimpyportions of stew were spooned on magnesium plates.
She would know what life meant to that skimpy woman in the green plaid, would inspect that new specimen, the jaunty boy who made his good clothes look like an ordinary "reach-me-down.
It was the skimpy woman in the green plaid, Miss Windus, who answered most of Louie's questions about her new companions.
Light-colored nonproductive earths of the North growing skimpy conifer trees or poor crops don't contain very many microorganisms.
In a corner on the white side, where the thin and skimpy winter sunshine slanted over the stockade wall, Anse Dugmore was squatted; merely a rack of bones enclosed in a shapeless covering of black-and-white stripes.
And the poor little girl in the skimpy frock was an unconscious fragment of that problem.
Meantime, a pity to waste this one; and there was poor little Miss Delawny sitting out, as usual, in her skimpy pink frock and black hat, trying so hard not to look forlorn that he felt sorry for her.
