Even Velveteens would hob-nob with the jovial campers on the lord’s waste, and, quaffing a dram from their black bottle, would toss a rabbit into the lap of a Romany mother and go on his way.
Yet the next day, every shred of this dark feeling would be flung to the winds, as under a scented may-bush the girl was romancing merrily or instructing me in the peculiar whistle giving warning of the approach of Velveteens or a policeman.
Velvets and velveteens seem to be taking the place of silk, and are really quite as cheap.
In fact, velveteens are cheaper, as they are so much wider.
He is off bodily; but may the meat and the drink he has taken off us be like drogs to his inside; and may the velveteens play crack, and cast the steeks at every step he takes!
The buttons on the velveteens were glittering like gold at the knees.
Velveteens and corduroys are singed before boiling or bleaching.
Velveteens dyed in black or in dark shades are brushed with an oil colour (e.
They came directly upon old Bultitude, looking bluff and ruddy in his velveteens and gaiters.
Velveteens as they come from the loom, are sold wholesale by weight, and average a price of 20d.
Trowser velveteens are woven 19 inches wide, if they are to be cut up; if not, they are woven 30 inches, and called beaverteen.
Keyse, "for collectors invelveteens and Scotch caps to ask for tickets, plyse?
Men in well-worn velveteens and felt billycocks, hobnobbed with men in the gaudiest uniforms ever evolved by the theatrical costumier.
The man in velveteens met the eyes of the energetic manhandler and quailed.
So, we stop at the Dazio, the town's customs hut, and velveteens has to pay for some meat and cheese he is bringing in.
And velveteens eyed her back, and his little eyes went littler and more pin-pointed, and his nose seemed to curl with irritation.
He had changed from the velveteens into his vagabond clothes, and was evidently on the same errand as myself.
Farrell is conspicuous in the melee, flourishing a stout stick, with his neat velveteens very much defiled, and his shirt showing through in some "thin places.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "velveteens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
