I go, leaving this long tress here in my stead, O mother mine; take this farewell from me as I go far hence; farewell Chalciope, and all my home.
The thick and glossy tress that, drawn forward, was to ripple over white neck and bosom was too loosely curled.
On her head is a calathos; a long tress of hair falls on each shoulder; she wears a long chiton with sleeves and girt at the waist, and a mantle.
Her head is broken off; on each side of her neck a long tress falls on her shoulder.
The Sphinx on the left wears a stephane; a tress of hair falls on the shoulder.
It was then she thought of her first resource--that which she intended to make use of when her power of resistance should be gone--that supreme resource that still existed in the tress of hair she had so carefully cherished and preserved.
A tress of golden hair, A drownèd maiden's hair Above the nets at sea?
One hand lay in her lap, and the fingers of the other were idly playing with a tress of hair that had fallen over her bosom.
As she spoke she separated a long, dark brown tress and smilingly bent towards him as he divided it from her head.
Until then, she positively declined seeing him, but enclosed a tress of her golden hair, and begged to hear from him frequently; adding directions that would insure the reception of his letters.
As the doctor cut off a tress and threw it on the floor, as if it were a noxious weed, he picked it up and smoothed it with his hand, as though to repay by caresses the condemnation it had received.
Not a curl or a tress of her hair had she left out of its filmy prison, and there was a mischievous gleam of triumph in her eyes when she looked at Aldous.
A shimmering tress of hair had escaped its bondage; that was all they saw.
He had been found stark and cold in his great carved bed, with an empty wine-cup beside him, and a tress of black hair and a tress of yellow laid twined together upon his lips.
The moon turning silver now shone behind her head, and a tress of hair sparkled beneath her wide hat, while the man had a glimpse of the gleaming whiteness of rounded cheek and neck.
They, however, grew critical as she smoothed back a tress of lustrous hair a trifle from her forehead, straightened the laces at neck and wrist, and shook into more flowing lines the long black dress.
The moon, turning silver now, shone behind her head, and a tress of hair sparkled beneath her wide hat, while the man had a glimpse of the gleaming whiteness of rounded cheek and neck.
He stole a silky tress of Janet's fair hair, and wondered to see the boy weep over it; for brotherly affection is a sentiment which never yet penetrated the heart of a brownie.
Her skirt was of the grass-green silk, Her mantle of the velvet fine; At ilka tress of her horse's mane Hung fifty silver bells and nine.
She picked up the tress of hair, and enveloped all in the silver paper once more.
As it fell to the floor, a long tress of silky black hair fell with it, and she held in her hand a miniature painted on ivory.
I was so close to her that none of the details of her face escaped me; I could distinguish, almost in spite of myself, even a little quiver of her left eyebrow, tickled every now and again by a stray tress of her fair hair.
From beneath his cap there escaped a fair and curlytress that was our delight, and when I touched his white neck with my finger he broke into a laugh and showed me his little white pearls, as he clasped my head in his two chubby arms.
As gently as I could, I cut with a knife a long tress of flowing, dark hair, she hanging her beautiful head over me.
But the arms moved, and the hand and the fingers were tearing asunder a long silky tress of hair.
On her head she wore a coronet of scarlet and black feathers; her long shining tresses of raven hair descended to her waist, each thick tress confined with a braided band of quills, dyed scarlet and blue.
It contained a billet that professed eternal constancy, and a tress of glossy hair, black as the raven's wing.
She had thrown aside her hat, and a loosened tress of her hair flew lightly across my face as I stood beside her.
At the side, where the massive tress was fastened, a single cape jasmine seemed to form a clasp of union.
Bertha stood looking at her as she unbound her long silken hair, and, after smoothing it as carefully as was her wont, rapidly formed the coronal braid, and wound the rich tress about the regal head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
