Above this garment she wore a gown of wood-coloured taffeta, sprigged with rose-buds, and a stomacher of fine lace to match the deep rufflings on her elbow-sleeves.
It was a light-blue gown and petticoat of rich satin, sprigged with silver, and a manteau of dark-blue velvet trimmed with bands of delicate fur.
On the chair lay the lilac-sprigged muslin dress of her grandmother's, which Winsome had meant to put on next morning to the kirk.
Like a surge of Solway tide the remembrance came over her that, when she had plucked the dandelion for her soothsaying, she had thrust it carelessly into the bosom of her lilac-sprigged gown.
Sweet it was with a great peace, every chair covered with old sprigged chintz, flowers of the wood and heather from the hill set in china vases about it.
There was that lovely heliotrope velvet edged with ermine for Adelaide, and a faded pink brocade sprigged with primroses for me.
It was a white foulard, sprigged in black and caught here and there with black velvet bows; there was a vest of fluffy white chiffon, and her hat was trimmed with white marabout pompons powdered with black.
It would be almost like the days when they had played house under the old elm on the big flat stone, only this would be a real house with real sprigged china instead of bits of broken things.
She had been planning exactly how that pink sprigged chintz was to be made, and which parts she would cut first in order to save time and material.
Rose Brentwood was looking her very prettiest in a rose-sprigged delaine and her wavy dark hair in a beaded net tied round with a rose-colored lute-string ribbon.
It was not often that Grandmother Heath allowed her to handle her sprigged china, to be sure, so Miranda felt the joy and daring of it all the more.
She forgot that she was wearing Kate’s special sprigged muslin, and that it might tear on the rough fences.
There’s a sprigged chin—” here she caught herself, remembering, and laughed.
Her hands trembled as she put out the sprigged china that was kept in the corner cupboard.
Then Marcia took down the pink sprigged chintz that she had made a year ago and laid it near the other things, with a bit of black velvet and the quaint old brooch.
Comes Mistress Penelope in sprigged gown of lavender, and smelling fresh of the herb itself or of some faint freshness.
It was observed that he wore, with his new blue suit, a quaint sprigged waistcoat which looked as if it also might have come down from his Uncle Armistead, along with the money he had given away.
In the morning Onisim, as usual, gave Pyetushkov on the blue sprigged plate a new white roll.
She shook out the sprigged muslin and gave it to the old man to press.
He had pressed the sprigged muslin and it hung on a hook behind the door in readiness for the mistress.
But a hunter in a frilled shirt and waistcoat sprigged with forget-me-nots!
It was seven-year-old Emmy Lou's first picnic, and she in her sprigged muslin stood looking to Sarah.
In her pink-sprigged dress with her plaits tied behind her either ear?
The sprigged muslin she was to wear had a pocket, and later when this dress was put on the tickets which were her own were in the pocket.
I think I will let her wear her sprigged muslin," said Aunt Cordelia at supper that night.
She ceased to rebuke Jane for stepping upon the third stair; she ceased to talk of the peculiarities inherent in sprigged china.
But the sprigged tea-set does feel so badly if I neglect it.
For you know, Esther, the sprigged tea-set is so hurt if any one but me arranges it.
I thought you might want to set the table before we got home, Esther, and I was so afraid you might forget and use the sprigged tea set.
She would have time this afternoon after the dishes were done, to sit right down with that sprigged calico dress for little Addie.
Now she could get at that spriggeddress for Addie, after all, this afternoon.
That sprigged dress would look good with feather-stitching around the hem, too.
They find great fault with pencilled knots and sprigged letters.
Suppose we put the cream in the gold-ribbed glass pitcher to-night, instead of the silver one; it will go better with the gold-sprigged cups.
Susan wore a dress like a white vapour, sprigged with pale buds, her throat and arms bare.
A shifting reflection from the Furnace stack fell over her in a wan veil, over the vaporous, sprigged white of her dress, her bare throat and arms, her cheeks wet with tears.
Spoons and so on are unmistakable--but one sprigged saucer is very like other saucers sprigged the same.
You go an' lay the table just as we always have it, except you can get out them old big sprigged cups o' my mother's.
She elected to wear a frock of sprigged muslin and a simple hat that she had trimmed herself.
In the end he thought out a design in sprigged muslin, looped with turquoise ribbon.
She was deterred from soft regrets by the desperate necessity of making up her mind between the charms of a muslin frock overlaid with pink rosebuds and a muslin frock sprigged with the palest blue forget-me-nots.
You know I wanted you, when we first came, not to buy that sprigged muslin, but you would.
Callista's absent gaze rested upon the unsatisfactorysprigged calico and striped seersucker version of members of the heavenly host.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprigged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
