44 Words to use with shirts

I was soon cold in my shirt-sleeves, and the leaning wall threatened to engulf me; yet it was hard to leave the delicious music of the water and the lovely light.

" "But I don't object to that," said J.S. "Well, I won't," said ANGELINA, "that's all!" J.S. rubbed the fur on his hat the wrong way, pulled up his shirt collar, looked mournfully at the idol of his heart, and departed.

" "I'm so glad Patty is going to stay with us, I don't care what we do," said Ethel Holmes, who was drawing pictures on Patty's white shirt-waist cuffs as a mark of affection.

Still chuckling to himself, he dropped my pistols into his shirt bosom.

A considerable flow of daylight thus diverted, The Convenience Merchandise Corner, even of early afternoon, fades out into half-discernible corners; a rear-wall display of overalls and striped denim coats crowded back into indefinitude, the haberdashery counter, with a giant gilt shirt-stud suspended above, hardly more outstanding.

He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts.

They took him out in his shirt tail and beat him, and whooped his wife, trying to make them tell where the money was.

He was habited neatly and soberly in black, with a fine white cravat and starched shirt-bands.

He stuffed a piece of paper in Graham's shirt pocket as he exited.

But the English shirt-maker proceeds upon different lines; he always seems afraid of wasting a few inches of longcloth, and thus if the ordinary ready-made shirt on sale at shops of the average class is dressy-looking enough, it is also often supremely uncomfortable to those who like their ease.

What's this?" "What's the matter?" Gifford crossed to Kelson, who was looking at his shirt-cuff.

I have used it | | constantly, in shirt manufacturing as well as family sewing, | | sixteen years.

He therefore coughed once more, took his snuff-box, cast a careless glance upon his shirt-frill, and continued: "It is evident that you are nothing but a simpleton, a fool, a regular baby.

Perhaps no other branch of the clothing trade shows so large an area of utter misery as shirt-making, which is carried on, chiefly by women, in East London.

Told him to his face his gold was dirty, and washed it off his hands with a lookGawd! you could see Austin was mad clear through, from his shirt-buttons to his spine.

My coat, cut in the jemmy fashion, I buttoned to suffocation; but 'pon honour, believe me, sir, no stays, and my shirt neck had been starched per order, to the consistence of tin.

At last, the Dodger trod upon his toes accidentally, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one moment they took from him, with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff-box, note-case, watch-guard, chain, shirt-pin, pocket-handkerchiefeven the spectacle-case.

Nevertheless it was all left behind; and Samuel Absalom tore the large, dirty canvas letters M.R., signifying Mounted Ranger, off from his blue flannel shirt-breast; and his experience as filibuster in Nicaragua closed,somewhat ingloriously.

On clean shirt day you might go abroad and pay visits.

" Overtop and Maltboy looked, and there saw, sitting at a window, and placidly gazing out of it, an old gentleman with long and thick white hair, a ruddy face, a white neckcloth, and a large projecting shirt frillwhich were all the peculiarities of person and dress that could be distinctly made out.

But in the society to which the boy belonged by his gentle manners and his trick of speech, which could only come as a birthrightin that rarefied world where the ladies wore low gowns, with diamonds around their necks, and the gentlemen dined in fine linen with wide shirt-frontsall life moved upon the machinery of romance.

One young man, the eldest son and heir of our washerwoman Hannah, came to pay his respects to me in a magnificent black satin waistcoat, shirt gills which absolutely engulphed his black visage, and neither shoes nor stockings on his feet.

Only last week an American corporal stopped a British Sergeant and said: "Say, Steve, can you put me wise where I can barge into a boiled-shirt biscuit-juggler who would get me some eats?"

There seemed to be numbers of men-servants, who wore white cotton gloves, and their liveries buttoned up to the throat, which takes away that nice clean-shirt-look of our servants at home.

Like the spinner or the weaver of olden times, the sewing-machine operator or the shirt-finisher of the present day provides her own workroom, lighting and tools, but unlike her, she enjoys no freedom in their use, nor has she any control over the hours she works, the prices she asks or the class of work she undertakes.

44 Words to use with  shirts