He was marked on his soft feet with umbrellas and chowries, as if the Fortunes of other kings had beforehand abandoned their badges in his favour, out of fear.
With its white lotuses like lofty umbrellas and its soaring swans like waving chowries, it seemed to have brought a present fit for a sovereign.
I think it must be the umbrellas which make us look ridiculous.
The umbrellas are the saving grace of the Luft Bad.
The rain had ceased to fall, the umbrellas were furled; for that infinitely short space his eyes rested on her features.
The passengers, crouching inside their wraps, looked miserably from under dripping umbrellas on a wet Hammersmith, and a wetter Brentford.
Viewing this cortege of awe-struck innocents braying into the blackness under their umbrellas at the heels of a silver-plated idol (not yet paid for), an intelligent God might well be proud of his workmanship.
And this brings us to the manufacture of umbrellas in Philadelphia, where there are more made than in any other city in America.
Perhaps, in imagination, he saw adown the future, millions of umbrellas--umbrellas enough to shelter the whole island of England from rain.
Although there are umbrellas of blue, green and buff, the favorite hue seems to be black.
But since that time there have been umbrellas and umbrellas!
It would be impossible for me to tell you how many umbrellasare made every year in this country.
Whether he did foresee the innumerable posterity of his umbrella or not, the "millions" of umbrellas have actually come to pass.
As I have already mentioned, he had travelled a great deal, and had seen umbrellas in China, Japan, in India and Africa, where they had been in use for so many hundreds of years that nobody knows when the first one was made.
Oh, for me, I feel that it's a hospitable house when in the come and go of company enough umbrellas are left to keep it supplied.
We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little.
Miss Turner, will you be good enough to see that umbrellas and mackintoshes are taken, and good thick cloaks in case of cold?
A boat comes sweeping down the river crowded with Malays, a white flag waving from its stern, seven paddles flashing on either side, and an array of white umbrellas midships.
This description gives a capital idea of modern Brunai, and I would only observe that, from the colour of his flag and umbrellas the nobleman who paid the state visit must have been the Bandahara and not the Di Gadong.
I was going to the Crypt," murmured the Itinerant Tinker, "to see whether I couldn't get some umbrellas to mend.
But they don't need umbrellas in the Crypt, do they?
May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand"?
So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
These are but a few glances at how umbrellas (in the general) came to their present high estate.
Consider, for a moment, when umbrellas were first introduced into this country, what manner of men would use them, and what class would adhere to the useless but ornamental cane.
Run and put a tub in the back entry for their umbrellas to drip into.
Josie had brought some flowers for the vases, and was just putting the last touches when she saw several umbrellas bobbing down the hill.
Ladies with green and white umbrellas passed through the courtyard-- French ladies on their way to join their husbands in Constantinople.
Then we got the umbrellas and went straight out the front way.
They had let themselves in at the back door, gone straight through to the hall, taken the umbrellas out of the stand, and gone out of the front door.
Ellen was at the station, and she had actually broughtumbrellas for them.
However, under the umbrellas they walked--the village fly being engaged elsewhere that evening, otherwise Thomas Bagg would have been hired to take them home.
Most people have hooked umbrellas--or, if this statement be offensive to any one, we will say that most people have had umbrellas hooked.
We have heard it said that it was the impossibility of twoumbrellas of this nature passing each other on a narrow road which led to the invention of covered wagons.
The right of ownership in umbrellas ranked henceforward with our right to own the American continent, being merely a right by discovery.
And when the sun drops below the horizon and the boys close their umbrellas and put them under their arms, it is only a variation of the picture, not a modification of its absurdity.
The boys had white umbrellas heavily lined with dark green.
She said the gentlemen of the house, father and son, would come in and stand before her to have her take their umbrellas or help them off with their coats, and sometimes without speaking to her or even looking at her.
They have an aversion to objects of a black colour, and will not use black umbrellas or clothes woven with black thread.
With that expression of opinion, the page approached the church portico, and waited sulkily among his fellow servants and their umbrellas for the congregation to come out.
From their use in the state canopies and umbrellas of Italian dignitaries, the word Baldacchino has come to mean a canopy, even when architectural.
Ibn Batuta says that in his time all the people of Constantinople, civil and military, great and small, carried great umbrellas over their heads, summer and winter.
An Indian prince, in a Sanskrit inscription of the 9th century, boasts of having wrested from the King of Márwár the two umbrellas pleasing to Parvati, and white as the summer moonbeams.
She was not going with us to discover Camelot, but she said that we must take umbrellas and mackintoshes with us, because it was going to rain.
Helen's mother is one of those dreadfully sensible people who always want you to take umbrellas and things with you.
As Lieutenant Wendell raised an umbrella and looked sharply around for a cab Belinda's eyes caught sight of a row of dripping umbrellas ranged along the curb.
The umbrellas were lifted and disclosed twelve girlish faces.
Below the umbrellas were carefully lifted petticoats.
The custom is well-known that none but kings could cause umbrellas to be held over their heads.
When he reached O'Day's table, he dropped to his knees and attacked a sluiceway leading to a miniature lake, fed by the umbrellas and waterproofs belonging to the two girls opposite.
The cars still follow their routes, lunging and pausing like huge beetles; but much of the wheel traffic has melted, with only here and there a cab or truck between which gold-splashed umbrellas pick a hazardous way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "umbrellas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
