Thus, the Juang women tattoo themselves with three strokes on the forehead just over the nose, and three on each of the temples.
Hence women in Bombay tattoo themselves with the figures of the lotus, conch shell, and discus, and from this the present custom is said to have originated.
The Ho womentattoo themselves in the form of an arrow, which they regard as their national emblem.
The Ghasiya womentattoo themselves on the breasts, arms, thighs, and feet.
They used to tattoo themselves, and live in the country south of the Dakotas.
Some say they use this sign because these Indians tattoo their breasts.
Impressions count for much, which is why I have chosen to keep a low profile.
Anybody does that's bettin' big on something we don't even want to think about.
He wears his hair long, and the golden brown of his limbs is covered with tattoo marks in strange devices.
Irene, finding it useless to say more, went to get ready, as Ella had already done, and left Dorothy in the sitting-room playing a tattoo on the window as she curled herself up in a circular straw chair.
Putting out his hands suddenly, he began to drum a thoughtful tattoo upon the post of the lych-gate, his eyes fixed on the ground and a deep ridge between his puckered brows.
Jonesy and the Utter Darkness beat a fast tattoo on the base lines and disappeared over the horizon to the visitors’ bench after their final journey toward the West.
Knight again) beat a fast tattooon the base line and disappeared over the horizon to the visitors’ bench after their final journey toward the West.
Finnerty sprang to his feet as a big gong boomed a tattoo over at the keddah.
Suddenly Lord Victor, quivering with excitement, his heart beating a tattoo that drowned something Swinton whispered, drew a bead on a patch of rufous fur that showed between the quivering reeds.
His fingers beat a tattoo upon the triggers of the gun.
The result was that my feet beat a rapid and explosive tattooclear across the street.
Every blow of that flying coupling-pin is freighted with death, and at sixty miles an hour it beats a veritabletattoo of death.
She beat a tattoo with her slender, nervous fingers, looking at him in mild surprise, and some disapproval.
By day the drum-fire of the guns beat on one's ears like a devil's tattoo until one felt that in another week reason would be unseated.
Up from the lower decks the electric current of expectancy ran until every one's steps quickened and those of us who were on wooden legs beat a constant tattoo on the decks.
He cleared his throat, and beat a tattoo on the elbows of his crossed arms with his fingers.
And then, rather disconnectedly, beating a tattoo with the fingers of his big hand on the top of the table, he spoke of the constraint in which he found himself with reference to the opulent owner of the mill.
Miss Brockway spoke so patronizingly to her in the hall when the girls were all talking together after the cadets had scurried away to answer tattoo roll-call.
Mingling with the stir of reawakening life in the corridors there sounded a light tap-tap--the tattoo of a tin spoon against the stone.
Then suddenly the room turned a shambles, a red surging mass of hands that tore, of thrown missiles, of shattering glass, through which sounded a shrill whistle and the tattoo of a thorn-baton on the pavement outside.
See that teamster with the pock-marked face and the tattoo on his arm?
Just as we were going to sleep he began with his front feet on the resounding box and beat a veritable drum tattoo of alarm.
Naturally the origin oftattoo is by some tribes referred to deities: see Turner, Samoa, p.
On a possible connection between tattoo marks and stigmata cf.
Indeed, the most thoughtless must do something, even if that something consist but in a tattoo beaten on the window-pane.
All day they flapped a tattoowith their wings and beat their sorrowful dead sounds into lovely Vera's ears.
Soon they were close over him encircling the elevation on which he stood, and he could hear the wild beating of the wings as though they were rolling a tattoo on muffled drums.
The blood was beating wildly in his brain, and he thought of that devils' tattoo on the roof at Udalkhand when first that dreadful knowledge had sprung upon him like an evil thing out of the night.
The devils' tattoo on the roof had sunk to a mere undersong, a fitting accompaniment as it were to the electricity in the room.
The beating of the unceasing rain upon the tin roof, and the perpetual rattle of the train made an endless tattoo in her brain from which there was no escape.
Her meditations were diverted by a tattoo upon her door which she had locked so that the ever-present, ever-prying Betty and the all-wise Francis could not intrude.
They gave the usual stunts in the typical Western way on a track tramped as hard as asphalt, the tattoo of hoofs making the hard earth ring in the soundless atmosphere.
Breaking the monotony of the harsh red Carolina clay around it, the town sports a variety of go-go bars, honkytonks, and tattoo parlors to refresh and spiritually solace the base's hundred thousand personnel.
For full three days she had come at the loud tattoo and coyly admired him from afar, and felt a little piqued that he had not yet found out her, so close at hand.
The only thing that distinguishes them is, that they tattoo the under part of the body, principally the thighs, and frequently wear the hair long and knotted on the top of their heads.
She acknowledges unwillingly the fact that she comprehends this meaning by a sign, silent but perceptible: she colors deeply, and, still looking down, continues her tattoo upon the oaken flooring of the corridor.
Sago, jerking his arm free, threw two shots at Overland, who replied with a rippling tattoo of the automatics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tattoo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
