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Example sentences for "tippet"

Lexicographically close words:
tipa; tipi; tipis; tipo; tipped; tippets; tipping; tipple; tippler; tipplers
  1. He took the little green tippet off his own shoulders and fastened it on those of his successor.

  2. Miles exchanged his green tippet for a flannel shirt and a pith helmet.

  3. Hans' tippet caught under our runners and held us up a good deal.

  4. The German youth was wearing an old-fashion tippet around his neck, the loose ends flying behind.

  5. Hans, go and put that tippet end around your neck and don't let it drag under the bob!

  6. Hans, and pulled on the tippet so vigorously that the long bob began to switch around sideways.

  7. The tippet of the Snake Indians is the most eligant peice of Indian dress I ever saw, the neck or collar of this is formed of a strip of dressed Otter skin with the fur.

  8. I observed a tippet worn by Hohastillpilp, which was formed of Humane Scalps and ornemented with the thumbs and fingers of Several men which he had Slain in battle.

  9. Her mildness, humility, and sweetness of temper soon won upon both the schoolmistress and the scholars; eventually the Misses Tippet took Virginia under their protection, and this magnanimity on their part silenced all opposition.

  10. In a school where the Misses Tippet were considered the aristocracy the appearance of so great a woman as Lady Hercules was an event, and I do not know whether my little sister did not after that take precedence in the school.

  11. He was cut and gashed terribly with knives, his throat was cut, and a woolen tippet stuffed into it,--still he lingered.

  12. As Francis passed by his mangled, gasping brother, he stooped and took the woolen tippet from the gash in his throat, when John attempted to speak, but immediately expired.

  13. But it was something less tangible than tippet or shawl that was smothering me just then, and choking my breath.

  14. Kitty wrapped me tenderly in my soft shawl, and fastened my fur tippet carefully round my neck.

  15. The knight is represented in armour, with conical helmet or bascinet, and tippet of chain mail; his surcoat bearing the arms of Foljambe.

  16. More in the background are other pileati, wearing both tippet and hood; and through the armholes of their outer garments show the tight sleeves of the cassock.

  17. The tippet was an academic adaptation of the ecclesiastical almuce, and was not the same as the hood, although the almuce seems to have been in the first place nothing but an ordinary hood with a lining of fur to keep out the cold.

  18. There was a white tippet hanging on the stovepipe.

  19. There was a little black shawl over that, and a green tippet wound twice around her throat with the ends tucked in under the shawl.

  20. Right here an aged townsman came in, stamping the snow off his boots, unwound a great tippet from his neck, and regarding the clay-besmeared floor, delivered his opinion to the landlord.

  21. The Swede was scraping his sides with the currycomb, and the Big Gray, accustomed to Cully's gentler touch, was resenting the familiarity by biting at the tippet wound about the neck of the young man.

  22. Bradley to those behind him; and all but Tippet heeded the warning.

  23. One of them behemoths of 'Oly Writ," muttered Tippet as they came to a halt and with guns ready awaited the almost inevitable charge.

  24. Tippet sank to the ground and buried his face in his hands.

  25. Placing the muzzle of his gun against the bear's ear, Tippet pulled the trigger.

  26. Tippet was beyond succor--why waste a bullet that Caspak could never replace?

  27. Bradley called to Tippet and himself turned in flight toward a nearby tree.

  28. Tippet took one look at the monster and bolted for the nearest tree; and then the bear charged.

  29. The following day Tippet walked as one in a trance.

  30. It seemed to them such a futile thing for Tippet to do, and Tippet of all men!

  31. He had seen Tippet marked and claimed and now he had been marked.

  32. It was a constant battle while they dug a grave and consigned all that was mortal of John Tippet to his last, lonely resting-place.

  33. Tippet never stopped running or firing until he stood within a foot of the brute, which lay almost touching Bradley and was already struggling to regain its feet.

  34. For instance, the overcoat and the red tippet are for your biggest boy.

  35. Matthew had finally been induced to have his red tippet taken off, but insisted on keeping it across the back of his chair, where in the intervals of the dinner he could now and then feel of it.

  36. Matthew wore his overcoat and beloved red tippet (which Madam Van Ruypen had hard work to make him discard in the house) wound around his head and ears.

  37. And all around his neck was tied a thick, red woollen tippet that seemed to possess no end, so much was left that was wound generously around his head.

  38. Ben knew just exactly how that tippet was to look when it was all fixed, ready for a sharp, cold, snowy day.

  39. I don't want it," said Elvira, picking at the end of the woollen tippet with her little finger quirked up elegantly.

  40. Matthew, hurrying, as fast as the dignity of the great coat and tippet would allow, to obey the minister.

  41. Ben, leaving the red tippet out of the question as an impossibility in this shop.

  42. He was dressed in a furred black gown, "such as he was wont to wear being bishop," a furred velvet tippet about his neck, and a velvet cap.

  43. Ridley gave his gown and tippet to his brother-in-law, and distributed remembrances among those who were nearest to him.

  44. In order to protect himself against the heat of the sun, he had drawn over his head like a cowl the tippet of his robe, which was sprinkled over with shells and bore the red cross of the Crusader on the left shoulder.

  45. Fergan, and brusquely pulling aside the folds of the tippet that covered the face of the traveler, the serf remained dumb with astonishment.

  46. He bowed to the company, and apologised to Miss Tippet for intruding, but he had wished to ask his brother Willie to call at the fire station on his way home to convey a letter to his mother, and merely meant to see him at the door.

  47. Whatever the reason was, Miss Tippet never divulged it, so we won't speculate about it here.

  48. Miss Tippet suited the action to the word, and seized Willie's hand, which she squeezed warmly.

  49. Having put Miss Tippet and Emma in a place of security, the policeman was about to make a desperate attempt to reach the upper floor by rushing through the flames, when the escape came up and rendered it unnecessary.

  50. And people often wondered why Miss Tippet was Miss Tippet and was not Mrs Somebody-else.

  51. Miss Emelina Tippet was a maiden lady of pleasing countenance and exceedingly uncertain age.

  52. Miss Tippet looked at Willie so earnestly and put this question in tones so solemn that he was much impressed, and felt as if all his earthly hopes hung on his reply, so he admitted that he could spell.

  53. With ready kindness, Miss Tippet at once sought to draw attention from the child, by reverting to Mrs Denman; and Matty created a little opportune confusion by stumbling into the room with the tea.

  54. Tell Miss Tippet when you go to-morrow that I will give myself the pleasure of looking in on her in the course of the evening," said Fred.

  55. This second discovery induced him to prosecute his studies with all the more energy, in order that he might be prepared for the battle of life, in case his existing connection with Mr Tippet should be dissolved.

  56. Miss Tippet will stand higher, I believe, in the next world than she does in this.

  57. He wears an ornamental tippet round the neck, with a plain, bordered tunic, tight at the waist, and closed all round.

  58. They wore during divine service a surplice, and a fur tippet or almuce over a long black cassock, and a four-square cap called a baret or biretta.

  59. You will notice that the woman also wears the tippet on her arm.

  60. As an instance of this I give the fur tippet hung with bells, used when hawking.

  61. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives.

  62. The good Tippet declares that he once canoed three miles up the Mbokwe, and then marched eastward for five days, covering a hundred miles--which is impossible.

  63. Five slow hours from Anenge-nenge finally placed us, about sunset, at Mayyán, or Tippet Town.

  64. Mr. Tippet asked me to put in an appearance at a solemn dance which, led by the king's eldest daughter, was being performed in honour of the white visitor.

  65. She felt very proud of her cap, with tippet and muff to match, and once on the train she sat up stiff and prim hoping some one would say: "Who is that good little girl in the squirrel furs?

  66. But there on the platform stood Letty, smiling shyly and holding fast to her father's hand, and, what seemed really wonderful to Susan, Letty wore a little squirrel cap and tippet and muff like her own.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tippet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    collar; drapery; garment; muffler; neckwear; pendant; scarf; tie