The floor with tassels of fir was besprent, Filling the room with their fragrant scent.
Thereupon the portress sat upon a low seat by the couch side; but the procuretrix, entering a closet, brought out of it a bag of satin with green fringes and two tassels of gold.
She pointed with scorn to a slender, silken cord, behung with coloured tasselswhich the King wore on his wrist, bracelet fashion.
The amethyst brooch, with two of the three tassels plainly showing, was pinned into the lace on the left side, half-way to the shoulder.
The third was a fantastic mixture of pine-tassels and acorns.
The tassels that complete the fringe must depend from the last collecting knot and hang between the triple bars of knots and beneath the collecting knot.
In the Maltese work, three times as many threads have to be left between the tassels as are covered by the stitch.
The stitches or tassels should be two or three double threads of the canvas apart.
Tassels are then made with the threads that issue from each scallop, and when these are sewn up, turn the work round to the right side, where the knots, made on the wrong side, will present the appearance indicated in fig.
As the loops are of different lengths, the tassels will hang in steps and the fuller and heavier they are, the handsomer the fringe will be.
They can also, when the occasion requires, be formed into a fringe or tassels as a finish to the work.
The heading of the fringe is plain, and heavy tassels are fastened into the loops.
As you finish each row, comb the ends of the tassels out carefully with a fine metal comb.
The littletassels between the knots, are made separately from the rest of the work and fastened on by the thread with which you sew them together at the top.
The pall bearers were all the chief men of the island, who, by turns, for a few moments at a time, held the golden tassels of the sarcophagus.
The barge occupying the centre of these lines, bore a coffin, covered with a pall of black velvet, ornamented with fringes and tassels of gold, and guarded by a company of marines in mourning.
The tasselshave been used in the Philippines from time immemorial in decoction as a diuretic, for which property they received notice in the Medical World of Paris about the year 1876.
An extract of the tassels has been put on the market, but it is better to administer a decoction made from 20 grams of tassel to 1 liter of water to be taken at will during the day.
Their devotions concluded, they clad themselves in rich silk mantles, to whose left shoulders were attached a double cordon or strings of white silk, from which white tassels were pendent.
And every one of these knights, on his left shoulder, had a double cordon or string of white silk, to which white tassels were pendent.
It was as if an old coffin, rotten and falling apart, were regilded over and over, and gay tassels were hung on it.
What with his mustachios, and his whiskers, and the tassels on his ears, he was a very presentable young lynx.
Make about forty bright-colored tassels of worsted, or bits of flannel cut in very narrow strips, three inches long, allowing ten or twelve strips to each tassel.
Tassels are not necessary, though it is much better to have them, as they make the top line of the net more distinct and add to its appearance.
After joining the bag at the dotted lines on the sides, gather the bottom up tight and fasten to it a good-sized tassel; then sew on each side a heavy cord with tassels placed where the cord joins the bag, as seen in Fig.
The bright tassels can now be tied at intervals along the top of the net, and four pieces of twine fastened on each end of the net at equal distances apart.
The cord and tassels of the example were made of scarlet worsted.
There was color, color, color; fringes and tassels and gold thread, as if these poor gewgaws could make up to the peasant for all the poverty he suffered and the monotony of his life.
In that first glance, however, I could only wonder instinctively if the tassels yet danced from her boot tops.
Instead of this, those wondrous tassels now danced from her boot tops as she gave chase to Solon Denney, who had pulled one of the scarlet bows from its yellow braid.
A row of tassels makes a pretty finish to various things.
The larger ornamental beads are useful in many ways, sometimes taking the place of tassels or fringes.
The centre is filled with a row of French knots, the tassels are worked in close lines of stem stitch, and the petals of the small flowers in satin stitch, finished off with a French knot at the centre.
Scrooge could not feel it himself, but this was clearly the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven.
Clematis astonished every one by suddenly beginning to climb the maple-tree and shake her silvery tasselslike a canopy over the Queen's head.
We made the budding birches a soft green, color maple keys, and hang brown tassels on the alder twigs.
When the aquatic home of the axolotl dries up, he quickly develops a pair of internal lungs, lops off his tassels and embarks on a new mode of life on land.
Many of the men do up the hair in queues with worsted ribbons, with heavy tassels that hang below the waist.
The seams were concealed with a fringe of ermine-skin; little tassels of white fur were also attached to each tail, to show off its blackness to advantage.
The Quichés, whose red turban-dress is more pronounced than others, sometimes vary it by adding yellow bands and tassels to the braids, which are permitted to hang down to the heels.
The coca-bag, which he called his chuspa, was made of llama cloth, dyed red and blue in patterns, with woollentassels hanging from it.
The upper part consisted of a rim of the red wood of the japura, highly polished; and it was secured over the shoulder by a belt ornamented with coloured fringes and tassels of cotton.
Tassels are paid for by the piece, and girls can earn from $2 to $4.
It is only within the last twenty-five years that fringes and tassels have been manufactured in this country, but quite a number of houses are now engaged in it.
These tassels and strings are precisely the kind of subject fit for ironwork--noble in ironwork, they would have been entirely ignoble in marble, on the grounds above stated.
You know the tassels are useful in keeping off the flies.
There were tassels at the sides, of course," interrupted Solomon.
She was decked with red woollen tassels that reached clear to the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tassels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
