This beautiful pine grows in forests that skirt swampy coast land.
The swamp bay is a magnolia that grows as a shrub to New England, keeping to the swampy lands that skirt the Atlantic coast.
And her skirt and the queer little shawl which she wore around her thin shoulders were fluttering tike a flag in the wind.
Before breakfast she, in short skirt and close-fitting jacket, went to see and to decide what should be done.
Quite," replied she, with a last look at profile, back hair and back of skirt with the aid of a hand glass.
Of course, the short skirtand her smallness of stature helped.
Winchie, who had on first sight taken an instinctive dislike to him, held a fold of Courtney's walking skirt and glowered like a small but very fierce storm.
She laughed as she put her foot on the wheelbarrow, hitching her skirt up where it bound her knee.
She was dressed in a short pale green skirt and bodice, the latter cut low at the neck before and behind.
Blanch, eyeing critically her riding-skirt and wondering how it was that such an antiquated cut could sit her so well.
At last, he reached a hedge, and continued to skirt it, until he perceived through the bushes the light of a lantern in the adjoining field.
I allowed Amabel to ascend, but just as the apprentice was following, I laid hold of the skirt of his doublet, and, pulling him back, desired him to come with me to his master.
Her plump dress proffered her figure to my eyes, and her skirttrembled over her polished sabots.
This little Marthe, with her luxurious and appetizing color, her warm pink cheeks and moist lips; this plump adolescent whose short skirt shows her curving calves, is an affecting picture of what Marie was.
I grabbed the skirt of a coat and she a belt--all wet enough to wring out.
Well, I made this really awful silk into a very full skirt that just covered my ankles, and near the bottom I put a broad band of orange-colored cambric--the stiff and shiny kind.
It was most fortunate that I had decided not to ride at that time, for a pitch over a horse's head with a skirt to catch on the pommel is a performance I am not seeking.
I had taken the "tuck" in my outing skirt, so there was not much for me to do; but Mrs. Ord pulled up and pinned up her serge skirt in a way that would have brought a small fortune to a cartoonist.
We drew my evening dress up underneath both skirt and apron and pinned it securely on my shoulders, and this made me stout and shapeless.
The skirt is trimmed with five moire bands with biais at their edges.
Crimp the skirt and put it on over the feet, not the head, of the doll, wrapping and tying it in place around the waist.
Tie the waist rather high, and bring it down to bag slightly over the skirt as shown in the illustration of Miss Muffett.
The skirt is a straight piece gathered into a waistband.
Cut the white skirt in a circle seventeen inches in diameter with a circular opening in the centre (Fig.
Cut the skirt of The Dress after the whiteskirt pattern (Fig.
There was no skirtto the jacket-like garment, the thighs being inclosed with the buckskin which formed the leggings, after the manner of the modern style of trousers.
This was remedied by taking some of the threads of fringe from the skirt of his hunting shirt and tying them round the poultice.
Nor even then; she had picked up her skirt and mounted several steps daintily before she heard her name and raised her eyes.
But on the other hand the texture of the skirt of this god gives it an abiding interest of a unique character.
Here, as a glance at the illustration will show, the skirt of the robe of the human figure is used as a ground for an elaborate inscription.
Its skirt made him a belt with something left over.
Saxe The Hired Squirrel Laura Sanford Ballad of the Trailing Skirt New York "Life" To the Girl in Khaki "Modern Society" The Tender Heart Helen G.
You do not fear the men: Perchance you only wish to hide your heart, And so, you fickle flirt, You don a khaki skirt To foil the deadly aim of Cupid's dart.
I gazed at her with kindling eye And admiration utter-- Until I saw her silken skirt Was trailing in the gutter!
The skirt hung from her knee to her foot without a stir in its folds, nor did her foot stir where it showed beneath the hem.
She wore a "costume" of bright terra-cotta poplin, with insertion bands of black lace over pink ribbon at intervals up the skirt and round the body.
The skirtwas very long, and ended in a crossway frill at the hem,--how graceful it made her look!
You may remember that both Hines and his servant said there were twigs and leaves on the edge of her skirt and that her boots were muddy.
She put the things on the table and then stood looking at me, squinting up her little eyes and with her big body, in a dirty white blouse and a skirt that didn't meet it at the waist, slouched up against the table.
From this bank the land descends back to the swamps which skirt nearly the whole length of the river.
By keeping to the ridges fair progress was made; but when compelled to leave the higher ground and skirt the borders of the lakes, dense thickets of alders and willows were encountered, and these greatly impeded our advance.
Lunch was half over before Clara entered--in a perfectly fitting habit, her hat on, and her skirt thrown over her arm.
Like the hurt child who folds himself in the skirt of his mother's velvet garment, I would fold myself in the robe of Deity.
With the slightest help, she had her foot in the stirrup, and with a single movement had her skirt comfortable.
The skirt of her shroud hung like a wet weed in the falling torrent.
All the dancers were gone; there was scarcely a white skirt or black coat in the pale blueness of the room.
She moved over the greensward in a skirt that seemed a little too long--a black silkskirt trimmed with jet.
Mrs. Gould, and she pulled up her skirt so that she could roast her fat thick legs more comfortably before the fire.
And you know exactly what will be disagreeable to say, and you say it,' replied Mrs. Gould; and she raised her skirt so as to let the heat of the fire into her petticoats.
Now, with motherly care she removed a tulleskirt from the table, and Violet, with quick, nervous glances, examined the room.
I've been altering it till there's hardly a bit of the original body left; but now the skirt is adding to my troubles by getting shorter and shorter in front.
A very fine paraja or mantle of camel or goat's hair, a skirt of brocade, or a scarf ornamented with silver thread will sometimes outlast a generation, and be handed down an heirloom even to grandchildren.
She will live in the great aoul of Stamboul, in a sakli by the Golden horn, or in the woods that skirt the Sweet Waters.
A skirt open in front and confined around the waist by a scarf or girdle, falls sufficiently short of the ankles to show the wide Turkish trowsers which are tied above them.
Simeon, forgotten, looked up at her and scratched his head; he turned in behind her, caught the edge of her skirt and bore it like a queen's page.
Down the front of her skirt was a streak of grease.
