Both these abbesses are designated by name, and wear convent garb and wimples utterly different from the clothes worn by them in the pictures of Herrad's book[662].
He saw the wimples of the lazy Grannoch Lane winding dimly through their white lily beds.
Andra was far too busy to listen; besides, it is not easy to hear with one's head under water and the frightened trout flashing in lightning wimples athwart the pool.
I thought we sat beside the burn That wimples down the flowery glen, Where, in our early days o' love, We met that ne'er sall meet again.
Come, old man, prithee, measure off the Cyprus, and look out the wimples quickly, or this damsel of mine will leave me never a farthing in my pocket.
Then Simon conceived a tremendous coup de coeur, a daring one enough, as women go,--women of such stuff as the Sally Wimples of this world are made of.
Mr. Wimples is a little man of profound learning and ancient lineage.
They tell me you are going to nominate Wimples for the Supreme Court.
Wimples is a good lawyer, but he has no reform record.
Her wimples of fine linen-- 'I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday were upon hir heed.
The wimples were pieces of silk or white linen held to the hair in front by pins, and allowed to flow over the head at the back.
These wimples were sometimes very broad, and were almost like a mantle, so that they fell over the shoulders below the breast.
The flames of these peculiar hats lit up the inspired devotees, and showed their heads wrapped in plain linen wimples or some little unaffected caps.
He dips his wings and wimples makes Upon the fountain clear, Then vanishes among the brakes For ever singing near; While Alice, listening, stands to hear, And dips her pitcher without ear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wimples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
