35 collocations for stripes

The native dandies wear patent leather shoes on their naked feet, tight-fitting trousers of some material striped with black and white or with some other glaringly-contrasted colors, a starched plaited shirt of European make, a chimney-pot silk hat, and carry a cane in their hands.

She was dressed in a black Tabby Mantua and Petticoat, without Ribbons; her Linnen striped Muslin, and in the whole in an agreeable Second-Mourning; decent Dresses being often affected by the Creatures of the Town, at once consulting Cheapness and the Pretensions to Modesty.

Children who might climb up to our nests and steal our eggs, boys with guns perhaps, and striped cats which no one can see, with feet that make no sound, and such claws and teethit makes me shiver to think of it."

And as I thought of the possible history of that grim striped chest my resolution was very quickly taken.

From the midst of a daring and extremely becoming arrangement of black and white striped chiffon and emerald-green velvet, Molly's beautiful face smiled on them approvingly.

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 wore an expertly fitted frock coat of black, gray trousers faintly striped, a pearl-gray cravat skewered by a pear-headed pin, and his small feet were incased in shoes of patent leather.

I was on a couchit was a metal couch with light striped cushionsand the girl was leaning over the balcony with her back to me.

We had striped dresses and stockings too.

Then they striped his poor white face with black and red paint, till he looked like an Apache.

The boy's face was black with coal-dust and wheat chaff, and tears were striping his features grotesquely.

" Hetty had caught the village character in the act of striping the wooden foot, and his expression of intense interest in the operation was so original, and the likeness so perfect, from the string suspenders and flannel shirt to the antiquated straw hat and faded and patched overalls, that no one would be likely to mistake the subject.

The fruit is very ornamental, being, when fully ripe, of a deep and glowing scarlet, but there are forms with yellow, and green, as also striped fruit.

The floor was all paint-spots and dirt, Each window was hung with a curtain, striped gay as a calico shirt; The walls was jest like a museum, all statoos and flim-flam and gush And pictersgood land!

In the course of his adventures, the ass was sold to a milla great flour factory employing numerous handsand, with his usual curiosity, he there observed, as he says, the way in which that loathsome workshop was conducted: "What stunted little men met my eye, their skin all striped with livid scars, their backs a mass of sores, with tattered patchwork clothing that gave them shade rather than covering! ...

But when the question became the possession of forty muskets, and the arming of two ordnance sergeants, "men with worsted epaulettes on their shoulders and stripes down their pantaloons" in the language of the Secretary of War, that eminent functionary could sacrifice his rest and slumber to the crisis.

If it is a question of property, why not put an ordnance sergeant into thema man who wears worsted epaulets on his shoulders and stripes down his pantaloonsas the representative of the property of the United States.

o' both stripes an' pensions.

A throng of the lovely iris crowds itself into the bed of a dried torrent; the sun stripes with rays of gold their velvety petals of tender blue; and the eye follows over the whole plain the folds of the rivulet of flowers.

Thence only impotent icy grains Scatters he as he wings his flight, Striping with sleet the verdant plains; But the sun endureth no trace of white; Everywhere growth and movement are rife, All things investing with hues of life

Height, 4 ft. Puschkinia (Striped Squills).This charming bulbous plant may be grown in any light, rich mould, provided it is drained well.

a moment ago *rayado* (pp. of *rayar*) striped *rayo* m. thunderbolt; flash of lightning *raza* f. race *razón* f. right; reason; *tener * be right; *tener mil es* be perfectly right; be a thousand times right *real* m. real (one fourth of a peseta in Spanish money, equivalent to about five cents; in Mexico a real is one eighth of a peso, or about six cents); adj.

If it is a question of property, why not put an ordnance sergeant into thema man who wears worsted epaulets on his shoulders and stripes down his pantaloonsas the representative of the property of the United States.

a moment ago *rayado* (pp. of *rayar*) striped *rayo* m. thunderbolt; flash of lightning *raza* f. race *razón* f. right; reason; *tener * be right; *tener mil es* be perfectly right; be a thousand times right *real* m. real (one fourth of a peseta in Spanish money, equivalent to about five cents; in Mexico a real is one eighth of a peso, or about six cents); adj.

The gwalla, or cowherd caste, seem to know the habits of the yellow striped robber very accurately.

35 collocations for  stripes