Have you not mind, Love Gregory, Since we sat at the wine, We changed the smocks off our two backs, And ay the worst fell mine?
There's two smocks in your coffer, as white as a swan; Put one of them about you, it will shew you licht down.
Oh Gregory don't you remember One night on the hill, When we swapped smocks off each other's backs, Sorely against my will?
In the east," said the officer with me, "where there is always snow in the winter, the Germans have sent out to their troops white helmet covers and white smocks to cover the uniforms.
A piece of the same efficient management that has distributed white smocks and helmet covers among the German troops fighting in the rigours of Poland, to render them invisible against the snow!
From this day forth, friend Sancho, count as thine six smocks of mine which I bestow upon thee, to make as many shirts for thyself, and if they are not all quite whole, at any rate they are all clean.
A heavy barrage was fired suddenly up and down the German lines, so as to bewilder the enemy as to the point of attack, and the Gordons in their white smocks rose up and advanced.
The Highlanders, when they took up their attacking line, were dressed in white smocks covering their kilts, and in steel helmets painted white.
Their smocks are tight, girdled, and reach the heels.
According to the view of many critics, German and English, the "early lays" of the Iliad were composed when men wore smocks or chitons, like the Greeks of the historic ages.
Lady-smocks all silver white" now paint our meadows with delight, as they do Shakespeare's England; but ours have quite frequently a decided pink tinge.
In a moment Ku Sui stood revealed there, and behind him, in the corridor, were three other figures, their yellow coolie faces strangely dumb and lifeless above the tasteful gray smocks which extended a little below their belted waists.
It was, rather, the insignia embroidered on the breasts of the gray smocks they wore.
Antoinette, Emmeline, Joan, and Jack, in their holland smocks and Roman scarves, frolicked from meadow to gill.
These smocks were cut low at the neck and short-sleeved, allowing rebellious shoulders to push themselves with shrugs and twists from their confinement and showing dimpled, nut-brown elbows.
They were all quite dirty, their beards stiff, their smocks ragged and stained, their hands grimy with dirt.
Then there were the shops: a large grocery with a display of dried fruits protected by mesh nets; a shop selling work clothes which had white tunics and blue smocks hanging before it with arms that waved at the slightest breeze.
More blue smocks gathered on the street corner and some pushed their way into the establishment.
The sight of one of those starchy, perpetually-spotless, white smocks always affected Pelton like a red cape to a bull.
The whitesmocks would have to go; Literates would have to sacrifice their paltry titles and distinctions.
Here is money--buy therewith four hats and smocks the like that millers wear, and likewise four meal-sacks well stuffed with straw.
So the smocks were donned, with straw about their legs bound by withies as was the custom, and taking the sacks upon their shoulders, they turned aside into the green and were gone.
We liked the three-cornered little drawing-room with its bay-window, where we could sit and work and watch the old men in their grey smocks having a palaver under the big elm in the centre of the green.
And Olivia, who was full of admiration for Greta's exquisite smocking, announced graciously that the smocks were to be the exception.
While some salved their consciences with elaborate embroidery for church purposes, others were contented to plod along the homely seam, to fashion smocks and cloaks for the toilers, and bed-linen and blankets for the sick.
She had slept badly; a habit formed in her under-nourished youth which she found hard to break; and she had, in consequence, been sitting up in bed at five in the morning to make buttonholes in garden smocks for Tony.
There seemed a positively endless number of little smocks and frocks and petticoats and pinafores, and Meg wanted to keep them all for Mrs. Mumford to wash, declaring that she (Meg) could starch and iron them beautifully.
They wore white smocks which, at any distance, in the dim daylight, blended distinctly with the snow and at night were perfectly invisible.
They all wore white smocks over their uniforms and they could easily advance within fifteen or twenty feet of our sentries and outposts without being seen.
The smocks are usually of some figured material, but striped stuff is commoner for the jackets; and the colours which they chiefly favour are Indian red or indigo blue.
The men had put on their blue smocks over their new frock-coats or over their old dress-coats of green-cloth, the two tails of which hung down below their blouses.
And Lady-smocks all silver-white, And Cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight.
It is generally explained from the resemblance of the flowers to smocks hung out to dry, but the resemblance seems to me rather far-fetched.
Here and there militia uniforms were seen amid the dull grays, the smocks of farmers and mechanics, and the sober suits of tradesmen, all come to see.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
