When your dressing gown and slippers might be envied by a king, And the voices of the children sound as sweet as birds' that sing, And the feelings that possess you are all of heavenly type, Then glory hallelujah!
She could let us have two pairs of slippers if she were a craudruped," said Jean.
Maybe Jean and I can go if Cousin Polly's slippers will fit and she will lend us two sashes, but Nan says she and Mary Lee are just obliged and compelled to stay at home because they wouldn't be seen in dowdy old frocks and old high shoes.
As we passed the school-house door, three dear, pretty maids in white gowns and white slippers stood on the steps and gently smiled upon our company.
But when this goddess threw off her bath-gown, and came bounding into the ring as gracefully as the clogs she wore on her slippers would let her, she was much more modestly dressed than most goddesses.
She was loosely wrapped in a cashmere dressing-gown of gray-white, embroidered in half-mourning tints, and she wore slippers of the same hue.
Her slippers and her antiquity had rendered her progress a noiseless one so far, and she made for instant retreat; then, deeming that her hearing might have deceived her, she turned anew to the door and softly tried the handle.
When they saw, issuing from the hole, the black slippers and the white stockings of the drowned person, they disappeared.
I followed her in my slippers and half undressed, and kept repeating: "Mademoiselle!
He was startled into such perilous activity by the summons, that his heels slid on the stairs, the slippers were shuffled off his feet, and he saved himself from a tumble only by quickening his pace, and coming down at almost a run.
He bent stiffly to gather up his slippers and fallen staff; and meanwhile Pansie had heard the tumult of her great-grandfather's descent, and was pounding against the door of the breakfast-room in her haste to come at him.
On the mantel stood the little white slippersin which she had tripped across the rostrum at Warwick Hall to receive her diploma from Madam Chartley's hands.
There was a pause in which Gay kicked off her slippers and sat absently gazing at them, while Lloyd tied the ribbons which fastened the lace in the collar of her dainty gown.
Patrick Bronte cut the dress into strips before her eyes and then threw the pieces, and the little slippers to match, into the fireplace, to teach his wife humility.
He disappeared up the stairway to exchange his slippers for shoes, and the tall woman went in another direction for her hat.
Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.
A large easy chair was drawn up near it, and a handsome dressing-gown and slippers were placed ready for use; all the work of Elsie's loving little hands.
It would be a whole cap, and a coat to wear with it, and a dress to match the coat, and slippers to match the dress, and so forth just like 'The House That Jack Built.
Across the foot of the bed hung petticoat, camisole, and hose, and beside the dress a pair of satin slippers exactly matching the hose, and they seemed the right size.
I saw that her slippers had gold roses and that they were pale pink like the sunset.
She had worn high-heeled slippersand had stepped on a pebble.
Mrs. Beale thrust her toes into a pair of silver-embroidered Turkish slippersand stood up.
Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?
I will just put on my slippers before we settle this little matter of yours.
A generation before Mr. Hudson there would have been a pair of slippers airing beside the fire.
And warm my slippersby the parlour fire," said Phil.
It seemed a matter of wonder to me, that, in such numerous families and of such indifferent parentage, so many slippers were kept under the heel.
My reward will be in Paradise, where a houri is standing in the shade, above a vase of gold and silver fish, with a kiss on her lip, and an unbroken pair of green slippers in her hand for me.
Seriously, you who wear embroidered slippers ought to be very cautious of treading in the mire.
Knowing what excellent hides the slippers of this people are made of, I never once ventured on their less perfect theology, fearing to find it written that I should be abed on my face the next fortnight.
Fra Biagio had scarcely left the outer door, than he cordially cursed Ser Francesco for making such a fool of him, and wearing slippers of black list.
He has completely ruined one of my bedroom slippers and done Mexican-drawn-work on the ends of the two living-room window-curtains.
He sits across the table from me when I eat, and talks casually enough of the trivially momentous problems of the minute, or he reads in his slippers before the fire while I do my sewing within a spool-toss of him.
Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently.
His barbarian ears had caught the quick tread of soft slippers outside the door.
The rocky ground hurt her slim feet in their soft slippers and she felt very small and helpless in that brutish, primordial blackness among those colossal, nighted crags.
She heard the kak-kak of Harriett's wooden heeled slippers across the tiled hall.
A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippersfor the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.
You must remove your shoes," said he, "or wearslippers over your shoes.
Underneath a small pavilion at the entrance, attendants laced slippers to our feet and then conducted us into the Mosque.
In the vestibule, the door-keepers of the Mosque selected slippers from an assortment of different sizes which they kept for visitors' use and tied these over our shoes with tapes.
The latter, however, may gain admission by paying an entrance fee of forty cents, and removing their shoes at the door or lacing over their shoes the loose slippers that are provided for this purpose.
We shook the slippers from our feet in the porch and were driven through narrow streets to the Grand Bazaar.
Who sat so sweetly at my feet With red tarbouche and slippers neat And stirred my heart with many a beat?
Each figure unfamiliar to our Western eyes, in turban or in fez, in slippers or in bare feet, in scant gown of cotton or full robe of silk, was a subject worthy of being considered individually.
These diamond buckles on my satin slippersare always catching the chiffon ruffles on my petticoats.
I've got a new dress to wear, and slippers with buckles, and amber beads, and lots of other things.
I guess the bride is beautiful, with real diamonds on herslippers and in her hair, and--" She looked down on Van Landing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
