44 adjectives to describe aprons

and when none was instantly forthcoming to me, the young lady stripped up a little white apron she wore, and stanched the wound in my shoulder.

As for the holy friar, when he arose he was in as pretty a stew as any man in all the world, for his rich, soft robes were gone, likewise his purse with ten golden pounds in it, and nought was left but patched clothes and a leathern apron.

And before she washed up the breakfast dishes she put on a clean apron, burnished her glasses, and sat down to write to Hollis.

She should put on a coarse apron with a bib to do her dirty work in, which may be easily replaced by a white one if required. 2347.

They wear neat white aprons and caps, and handle the food with a dexterity that shows long experience.

There was a wide crack between them in one place, and looking through it I could just make out that there was some boy standing there with what looked like a dirty apron over his trousers.

You putterin' around the place in some kind of a pink apron like you women can rig yourselves up in and" "There ain't a girl in Adalia has dropped out of things the way I have, I had a singin' voice that everybody in this town said" "There's the piano, Hanna, bought special for it.

And, lastly, in the Scandinavian rites, where the military genius of the people had introduced a warlike species of initiation, instead of the apron we find the candidate receiving a white shield, which was, however, always presented with the accompaniment of some symbolic instruction, not very dissimilar to that which is connected with the masonic apron.

It was a scrub-day in the kitchen; and Katty came in to take the plates with her sleeves rolled up, a smooch of stove-polish across her arm, and a very indiscriminate-colored apron.

Henriette had never been accustomed to labor, and old Mary was surprised upon seeing her enter the dining room, with her glossy brown hair parted neatly over her high marble forehead, clad in a simple gingham, which she had prepared for a morning dress, with a brown linen apron, to assist her in making the necessary arrangements for her removal and the coming sale.

A blue cheeked apron with strings.

Mick Walker was the name of the oldest; he wore a ragged apron, and a paper cap.

She had no hat on, the sleeves of her cotton blouse were rolled up over her elbow, and she wore still the big rough apron she had donned for scrubbing.

She thrust her hands into the pockets of the small ruffled apron she wore, and her elbows assumed an argumentative air.

"Well," he said, standing in the frame of the open door, his derby well back on his head and regarding her there beside the small desk, "is this what you call ready at twelve?" She rose and moved forward in her crackly starched apron.

Don't use me so roughly, you tear my laced apron.

Bronson, in his shirt-sleeves and wearing a diminutive apron to which clung a fluff of turkey feathers, came from the kitchen.

And John dropped a curtsy with his limited apron.

Margaret's spare angular figure and sharp-featured face did not look encouraging; but surely never before was seen such a dazzling white apron, such a stiffly starched collar, such spotless cuffs.

Sylvia went more slowly, looking back once or twice at the picture made by the two women, so dramatically contrastedher mother, active, very upright, wrapped in a crumpled and stained apron, her dark hair bound closely about her round head, her moist, red face and steady eyes turned attentively upon the radiant creature beside her, cool and detached, leaning willow-like on the slender wand of the gold-colored parasol.

And away they galloped, his overcoat streaming out behind, the maid's skirts flapping and her narrow apron flickering in the wind.

On the top of several of the heaps, native aprons (belonging, we presumed, to girls at work in the vicinity) were neatly placed.

She was a stout, weather-beaten, kindly-looking woman with a high white cap, gold earrings, black short petticoat, and many-coloured apron.

There she was, with her sleeves turned back, and a large pinafore apron over her rich bosom, kneading flour.

"You got anyany aprons?" he stammered.

44 adjectives to describe  aprons