I saw whom you were with," he went on, and treated the tassel so roughly that it came away in his hand.
Before it had lasted long, however, he looked up from his employment of twisting the tassel as far round as it would go, and then letting it fly back.
She could see, too, that he was not interested in these things; he played with a tassel of the sofa, and did not notice when she stopped speaking.
Above his motionless figure the little cord and tassel on the stiff point of the hood swung about inanely in the gale.
Dominic had been sitting motionless, like an inanimate black cone posed on the stern deck, near the rudder-head, with a small tassel fluttering on its sharp point, and for a time he preserved the immobility of his meditation.
Cast on one hundred and forty loops, and do one row of each colour; three of white and five of coloured will make it wide enough; finish with a chenille tassel at each end.
In the Eighth Dog-Post-Day of Hesperus, Victor is represented as raising himself slowly by the bed-tassel out of bed, which he usually left with a spring.
The word qutas represents both the yak itself and its neck-tassel and tail.
In addition she wore jade butterflies and a tassel on one side of her headdress, and, as usual, fresh flowers on the other side.
The Young Empress had on a pale blue gown, and the red tassel on her headdress was dripping red water all over her gown.
You are so tantalizing,” she said, throwing her tassel at me, “and that reminds me that you promised to complete that unfinished sentence soon.
The next instant she walked lightly into the room, twirling the tassel of her morning robe over her forefinger.
She played with the tassel of her wrapper, and said softly, “Which would you have chosen?
At each angle of the mount is tied an enormous tassel with shades of chenille, the ends of which trail along the ground, brushing the fine sand at each movement of the fan.
This has a red tassel or tail at the end of the fan, a kind of combination of fan and fly-whip.
I knew his mind, and I blushed and pulled at the tassel of the window cord.
I toyed with thetassel of the window cord confusedly.
She toyed with the silken tassel on her robe, tying and untying it with quick nervous fingers and resting the while against the side of the carved chair.
It is part of thetassel of one of those red cloth caps commonly called in England, a fez!
About two miles from hence is a large barrack, containing a number of soldiers: the only arm I have yet seen them to possess is a very long spear, having a small flag or tassel attached to it.
Quin stopped twisting the tassel and looked at her quickly.
Then they gave me a tassel in either hand, and lifting ship and all, upon their heads, bore me with a favourable breeze to bed, while all of us chanted a nautical song.
Mrs. Van Tassel has been to Madame Stone, and is wearing a full suit of this sort.
Defn: To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
In 1835 he purchased, as I have already said, a small piece of land on the Hudson, on which stood the Van Tassel house mentioned in the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
When he was a boy, Irving had gone hunting in Sleepy Hollow, which is not far from New York city; and in the latter part of his life he bought a low stone house there of Mr. Van Tassel and fitted it up for his bachelor home.
And if I had not already bought mine, I should buy it of the man with the long tasselon his cap: I dote on buying fruit of good-looking young men with tassels on their caps.
If Yeogh Wough had a tail he'd be sure to get a gilttassel for the end of it.
She returned his bow quietly, leaned forward and touched the colt with the tassel of her whip.
From the peak of his Canadian toque there depended a tassel which bobbed when he talked; his boots were of Indian make, and they were soft and light and waterproof; a sash of several colors was knotted about his waist.
The cap is of crimson satin, closed at the top by a gold tassel and turned up with ermine.
And that the caps of all the said coronets be of crimson velvet, turned up with ermine, with a tassel of gold on the top.
The coronets to be of silver-gilt; the caps of crimson velvet turned up with ermine, with a gold tassel on the top; and no jewels or precious stones are to be set or used in the coronets, or counterfeit pearls instead of silver balls.
To make this fringe into tassels, separate six strands of each color and tie with the two colors, running the tape needle and worsted along from one tassel to another, or tie each one securely and cut.
A rich colored handkerchief or a silk band and tassel are frequently tied around the waist, and hang nearly to the ground in front.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tassel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
