Double bandeaux are formed by bringing most of the hair forward, and rolling it over frizettes made of hair the same colour as that of the wearer: it is finished behind by plaiting the hair, and arranging it in such a manner as to look well with the head-dress.

"And the soldiers plaiting a crown of thorns put it on His head; and they put on Him a purple garment.

Ah, rather let us now in lovely June O'erlook these happy children at their play: Lo, where they gambol through the garden gay, Or round the hoary hawthorn dance and sing, Or, 'neath yon moss-grown cliff, grotesque and grey Sit plaiting flowery wreaths in social ring, And telling wondrous tales of the green Elfin King.

And afterward she cut a lock of my hair, and a lock from her own dear head; and she did plait the two locks together, so that our hair did blend and be together; and afterward she hid it in her bosom.

"Right after freedom, my father plaited baskets and mats.

At the door of every house was seen either a man or a woman plaiting straw hats, but this might only have been occasioned by our great demand for them, for we purchased all that could be made whilst we remained.

On the previous Thursday the defendant was plaiting a shirt.

" This time, as he declaimed the verses, he went through the corresponding gestures of tendering a gift and plaiting a garland.

She had decorously plaited a flounce of old and rare lace and brought it close about her shoulders and twined her mother's string of pearls about her white throat, the longer strands reaching below her waistband and caught low again upon the shoulder with a knot of fresh spring violets.

How many weeks will she find it a pleasure to make morning visits here and plait pretty flowers on the grave of her husband?The grave in the next inclosure furnishes an answer to the question.

The drying machine consists of nineteen cylinders, arranged with stave rails and plaiting down apparatus.

I don't believe I talked just so; but the fact is, in reporting one's conversation, one cannot help Blair-ing it up more or less, ironing out crumpled paragraphs, starching limp ones, and crimping and plaiting a little sometimes; it is as natural as prinking at the looking-glass.]

[Illustration: IMPROVED PLAITING MACHINE.]

They all went on saying these things till Jack grew tired of listening, and started plaiting his stamp-paper into a mat.

Along the forms, another and another man forgot to plait his queue, or squirm, or suck laboriously at his pipe.

Abe Carpenter sat on the lowest branch, plaiting a four-strand, square-braided "quirt"; Jimmy Sears was holding the ends.

But what made it hardest of all was a word of Margray's one day as I sat over at her house hushing the little Graeme, who was sore vexed with the rash, and his mother was busy plaiting ribbons and muslins for Effie,Effie, who seemed all at once to be blossoming out of her slight girlhood into the perfect rose of the woman that Mary Strathsay was already, and about her nothing lingering rathe or raw, but everywhere a sweet and ripe maturity.

The heats are sometimes so excessive, that persons going out without an umbrella are liable to suffer from coup de soleil, or sun-stroke; and the inhabitants, especially of the lower class, in order to guard against it, wrap up their heads in a large turban, over which in their journeys they plait a thick shawl many times folded.

You've got some funds, or some relations or some friends to call upon?" Sheila drew up her head a trifle, lowered her eyes, and began to plait her thin skirt across her knee with small, delicate fingers.

On the road every woman in every doorway plaits straw with rapid fingers just as if we were in Bedfordshire.

He did this by plaiting babiche thongs in the same manner that one does in making the web of a snow-shoe.

They are half protected by mounds of upset bedding, straw mats, red lacquer boxes, and plaited bamboo trunks, mixed up with tin plates, brass and copper hukas, silver opium pipes, Chinese playing cards, and properties enough to drive half-a-dozen artists wild.

Could it authorise me to plait a whip of small cords, and flog a preferment-hunter out of the pulpit?

The cam, D, is so shaped that when the advancing plaiting knife and cloth reach the front edge of the gripper bar, the gripper is raised from the table to admit them freely.

She plaited him a baldric, with violets circled round, For violets are for lovers, and with this his waist she bound.