43 adjectives to describe wrapping

But you will see girls chatting after a match, and even having tea, without deigning to put on an extra wrap.

Genius, I am told, sometimes locks its door and, if unrestrained, peels its outer wrappings.

In spite of the careful wrapping, it had got rather crumpled.

When thou shalt press him against thy breast in these gay-colored wrappings, Oh, then remember the kindly youth who bestowed them upon us, And who me also henceforth, thy sister, will shelter and nourish.

[Illustration: The Secret Stair] Many must have been the romantic meetings aided by those diminutive steps, but, peering into their shadows, we saw nothing but a vision of Marie Antoinette, half clad in dishevelled wrappings of petticoat and shawl, flying distracted from the vengeance of the furies through the refuge of the low-roofed stairway.

Casey looked up from bending over the fourth tire wrapping.

But in Brown's little bedroom, donning furry wraps, Helena Forrest spoke in Sue Breckenridge's ear: "I can't bear to go till we know how it comes out.

"Well, of all the surprises!" was young Mrs. Chase's greeting, as she swept across the porch in a Paris gown which fairly took one's breath away, as it was disclosed by the falling open of a gorgeous evening wrap.

She still wore her hat and the gray wrap.

It is too short to give the distinction and dignity that handsome wraps with long lines almost invariably do, although they seem to add age to the form.

But you are now bound for a diversely ordered world, a world in which your handsome wrappings are not to the purpose.

They seemed still meaner and shabbier when two other girls appeared in yet prettier costumes of fresh daintiness; and when these two dropped their little hooded shoulder-wraps of silk and lace, and she saw that they were the two Ryder cousins, poor Angela suddenly began to feel a strange sense of awkwardness and unfitness.

But in vain that scantiness of drapery: the white body rose splendidly out of its ineffective wrappings only to be overwhelmed by an incredible incrustation of jewellery: only here and there did bare hand's-breadths of flesh unadorned succeed in making themselves visible.

There was an inner wrapping of tissue paper containing a small white pasteboard box which bore the name of a fashionable New York jeweler, and inside the box the origin of the tinkle was revealed in a small brass bell.

Scarcely had the door of his apartment closed behind him, when he threw aside the invalid wrappings with a perfect fury, sprang from his chair, and hastened into the inner room.

Her carriage was already at the door; she started toward it, throwing a light wrap across her arm as she went.

They seemed still meaner and shabbier when two other girls appeared in yet prettier costumes of fresh daintiness; and when these two dropped their little hooded shoulder-wraps of silk and lace, and she saw that they were the two Ryder cousins, poor Angela suddenly began to feel a strange sense of awkwardness and unfitness.

" José's fingers fumbled the little corn-husk wrapping for the cigarette he meant to make.

He threw about her shoulders the wraps which he had brought for her to go out in, the modest wraps of common life, whose poverty contrasted sharply with the elegance of the ball dress.

Eagerly he tore off the numerous wrappings and disclosed acocoa-nut!

In the same oiled silk wrapping we find photographs of his wife and children, and cheek by jowl with them, the photographs of abandoned women and filthy pictures, such as can be bought in low quarters of big European cities.

She turned away to her outdoor wrap but she laid it down again and stood still when he went on.

By this time some of the men had brought 'Duke Radford into the store, and, sitting him on the bench by the stove, were peeling off his outer wraps.

From his beak depended a largish bundle, in pale blue wrappings, so that at a glance they knew the stork was bringing a girl.

There, still wrapped in its carelessly torn off postal wrappings, lay the box containing the ruby ring which Jessica Bremner had returned.

43 adjectives to describe  wrapping