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Example sentences for "toque"

Lexicographically close words:
topstone; topsyturvy; topt; topworked; topworking; toques; toqui; torc; torch; torchbearer
  1. It was Le Forgeron's red toque we saw on that island," said Jean with conviction.

  2. He remained in camp, spending his time mending his clothes and making a hare skin cap to replace the toque he had lost when he fell over the cliff.

  3. By this time she was clothed in a very simple grey dress, and was arranging her toque upon her fluffy hair.

  4. Her toque fell, her hair dropped on her shoulders.

  5. Fixing her toque on her head with a long pin, she frowned.

  6. For, on the bed lay the sable coat, muff and toque and half-a-dozen unworn French frocks.

  7. They went from the sable coat and muff to the toque and back again.

  8. Mme Maloir had a mania for doing up all her hats afresh; she alone knew what really became her, and with a few stitches she could manufacture a toque out of the most elegant headgear.

  9. She leaned forward, and swayed with the swaying ship; the violets in her bolero-toque quivered with the vibrations of the machinery.

  10. The neat dark-velvet toque could have its position altered on her head without much harm.

  11. Mademoiselle Chichette wore a silk dress of faded pink, a long cloak trimmed with fur, and a sort of little toque of green velvet, with silk tassels and bows of the same color, which fell over her left ear.

  12. Off the point of Toque Toque, extends the fine island of St. Sebastian; the strait between it and the main affords an excellent passage, and a good harbour for ships of war.

  13. Passing point Toque Toque at noon, we entered the strait of St. Sebastian.

  14. I wonder if my toque would be inappropriate?

  15. The one in the toque gave the one with the bird of paradise a slight push.

  16. Walking with head erect, and eyes upturned to the heaven he feared not to face, his glance fell upon a dark-skinned woman with a white toque on her head, and beside her a young girl shining like a Virgin of the Sun!

  17. Her white toque was her constant coiffure, outdoors as in.

  18. The wonder lit the doctor's face with eager interest, but brighter still was the answering light under the toque with the ass's ears of watered silk.

  19. Of these the most marked features are the rolled-up cap or toque and the short coat.

  20. She had replaced the toque with a brown cap he knew, and as she smiled up at him she seemed again almost the familiar godmother of his fairy tale.

  21. A wild desire to make a toque like it to put on her own towzled locks on the following Sunday caused her to stare so hard at Kitty with her mouth wide open that she did not hear a word that young lady was saying.

  22. That young woman was busy giving sundry touches to the charming toque with which she intended to electrify her young man on the following Sunday.

  23. He noticed her clothes--a dark brown velvet corduroy, a sable boa, a small round toque of the same.

  24. Staring at that little head which he admired so much, upright and unmoving, in its dark straw toque against the cushion, he would become suddenly alert.

  25. Standing beside the "poor old creature" was a woman clothed in worn but neat black clothes, and an ancient toque which had once known a better head.

  26. Very still, as if fearing to betray itself by sound or movement, was her figure in its blue-green frock, and a brimless toque of brown straw, with two purplish roses squashed together into a band of darker velvet.

  27. The moment the elder understood what it was that my eager words were pressing on her, she drew the pins out of her toque and laid it on the chair again; and so did the other one, smiling at me.

  28. The younger one put on her toque obediently at this, and helped the elder one to pin hers on straight.

  29. A purple toque pressed her autumn-tinted hair against her jet-black eyebrows.

  30. She put on a dark-blue linen frock and a little toque of black straw.

  31. XVI Lady Wychcote entered the drawing-room abruptly, very smart and untravel-stained in her blue serge gown with little gilet and toque of purple velvet.

  32. She was wearing her black dress and the toque with the high feather.

  33. While he stood there she took a large hat from her head and presently replaced it by a black toque with a single darting cock's feather athwart it.

  34. Every woman had glared at the slim svelte form with the white velvet toque set off by a single spray of osprey.

  35. Mary wore her substantial tailor-gown of olive tweed, and a little toque to match, with a silver mounted grouse-claw for her only ornament.

  36. A skin-tight indigo silk Jersey bodice, closely studded with dark blue beads, a flounced petticoat of indigo and amber foulard, an amber scarf drawn tightly round the hips, and a dark blue toque with a largo bunch of amber poppies.

  37. She had a little brown velvet toque to match the Newmarket, and thus attired she would be able to take her seat on the drag which was waiting on the quietest side of Covent Garden.

  38. A neat chocolate-coloured cloth, almost new from the tailor's hands, with a little cloth toque to match, would do for the wedding journey.

  39. Suddenly, however, he caught sight of a dark blue toque and a mass of hair under it, that glittered like molten gold in the afternoon sun.

  40. On her head was a small, close-fitting toque of the same dark blue as her coat; and between this cap and the turned-up collar bunched out a thick roll of yellow hair.

  41. If his costume has any colour, it is a waist-belt or neck-scarf, a toque or bright handkerchief round his head to keep distant hunters from mistaking him for a moose.

  42. The heater on the Beetle quit about ten minutes out of town, so I was driving with a toque and mittens and all my sweaters.

  43. I take his gloves and toque from him and add them to the drippy pile beside me.

  44. Here at Krantz's she was only a girl in a white dress, with a brown toque which at the Westmorland had been hidden with a veil.

  45. There was a tan straw hat, too (Clo dared not appear in the brown toque and coat described by the newspapers), and a cheap handbag purchased for the pearls in case she should get them.

  46. There was no hat-pin, but Clo crushed the soft toque down over her masses of red hair, and hoped she was not untidy enough to be conspicuous.

  47. Clo took for herself the brown coat, which was shorter than the gray, and pulled the brown toque well over her red hair.

  48. But the room was empty, and she put away the gray mantle and toque where she had found them.

  49. But she had no hat-pin in the close-fitting toque lent by Beverley.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.