When this was finished Miss Smith got a hot iron, and ironed the tucksso skillfully that they looked as flat as they had done before.
He alone incubates the eggs, and when the little Phalaropes are ushered into the vale, it is Papa who tucks their bibs under their chins and teaches them to peep their morning grace and to eat nicely.
Then, without swallowing it, the bird tucks it away in the upper part of its throat, and goes off to hunt for another.
For it has very short fore legs, which it tucks up against its breast in such a way that they can hardly be seen, and very long hind ones, on which it hops about in a very bird-like manner.
So he always tucks it away in an empty shell like that of a whelk or a sea-snail, which he drags about with him wherever he goes!
If there are tucks in the pattern they are usually indicated.
At first glance you would think that there are five rows of tiny tucks with hemstitching on each side, until you look again closely and see that it is padded hemstitching (Figure 182).
We will put a hem and a few tucks at the bottom of the material first.
The lazy-daisy stitch] A charming little yoke can be made of groups of fine tucks and rows of the daisies.
Everyone tucks there napkins under there chins like your father used to before he had a hired girl insted of your mother.
They say now that it is the dull season, and they've put our room on flannel skirts; two tucks and a hem, and a muslin yoke that has to be gone round four times with the stitching.
It was the three tucks and a hem ruffling, and I did one hundred and forty-two yards from eight in the morning till half-past four, and they paid me twenty-three cents.
One would think you were designer for a fashion paper, the way you got the tucks in my sleeve and the braid on my collar--and you might have had the kindness to TELL me my hat was on crooked, I think!
And the fanciful tucks on the sleeve of the gown--"and I didn't suppose he had deigned so much as a glance!
There were six of them, all gorgeously dressed in silken gowns with many puffs and tucks and ruffles and flounces and laces and ribbons, everything being in some shade of blue, grading from light blue to deep blue.
Their dresses consisted of layer after layer of gauzytucks and ruffles and laces, caught here and there with bows of dainty ribbon.
If you are hanging your room with ground-pine, he lays hold of every stray twig, and tucks it into every crack he can reach.
Illustration: Josh Billings, upon remonstrating with his washerwoman for sewing tucks onto the bottom of his drawers, is told that the clothes have only been mixed.
Visited mi washwoman, and blowed her up, for sewing ruffles and tucks onto the bottom ov mi drawers.
Suddenly those absurd skids and wheels had become no more than the tiny feet that a seagull tucksaway under itself, and like a gull the biplane rose.
You-all line up ag'in the wall thar ontil I tucks the blankets in on this yere outbreak in F flat, an' I'll be with you.
When he's got away with half the box, he tucks the balance onder his blanket an' retires to his teepee with a look of gratitoode on his face.
Knowing so little of fear, he never tucks his tail between his legs, and, when shooting across an open expanse of snow, the black tip ever trailing after him would seem to mark him out for destruction by every observing hawk or fox.
At night he seeks the shore andtucks his bill into his plumage; and all because of something within him, compelling him to do these things.
There had been fivetucks in the dress, but one after one they had to be let out.
Molly feeds the family shortly after nightfall, and always tucks them in when leaving, with the caution to lie quiet and still.
On to this space between the pairs of tucks you sew the insertion.
In this way you have two tucks together, then a space, and two moretucks together.
And the only reason I had tucks instead of ruffles was because I thought they'd be easier.
Shouldn't you have thought tucks would be easier, Helen?
Well, we-alls takes our inspiration, an' the Red Dog man tucks his onder his belt an' then turns round to Enright.
There were some tucks in the skirt to be let down as the child grew.
She opened it and kneeling down raised the napkin that covered her, as one tucks in a little child.
The canary that has all day been hopping about its cage, or perhaps been allowed the freedom of the dining-room, tucks its head under its wing and goes to sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
