110 examples of chine in sentences
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Pick the meat from the lobsters, and beat the fins, chine, and small claws in a mortar, previously taking away the brown fin and the bag in the head.
"I'm so glad I brought my white crêpe-de-chine," said Aunt Isabel, as she dressed for the occasion.
But man, cursed man, on turkeys preys, And Christmas shortens all our days: Sometimes with oysters we combine, Sometimes assist the savoury chine.
[Anat.], nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut^, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone^; natch, natch bone. stern, poop, afterpart^, heelpiece^, crupper. wake; train &c (sequence) 281. reverse; other side of the shield.
I am in debthorribly in debtgetting deeper and deeper every dayand I am going to sell myself to the only man who can pay my debts and give me fine houses, and finery like this,' plucking at the crêpe de chine gown, with its flossy fringe, its delicate lace, a marvel of artistic expenditure; a garment which looked simplicity itself, and yet was so cleverly contrived as to cost five-and-thirty guineas.
She was full of compunction, but she knew Undine would forgive her, and find something amusing to fill up the time: she advised her to go back and buy the black hat with the osprey, and try on the crepe de Chine they'd thought so smart: for any one as good-looking as herself the woman would probably alter it for nothing; and they could meet again at the Palace Tea-Rooms at four.
A venison pasty and a chine of beef are good every where; and so are crammed capons and fat chickens.
Oh, yes, and a crepe-de-chine waist of pale green!"
At the same period, a supper-dish, when the king supped with his mistress, Lady Castlemaine, was "a chine of beef roasted.
You didn't make a mistake with that blue crêpe de chine, child.
"Beautiful champagne broche silk crepe de chine blouse; open neck; one button; cost 2s.
"To lame the shoulder, divide the chine bone, cut off the thumb, pierce the diaphragm, or to tear off the hair and fracture the skull, was each punished by a fine of twenty shillings.
We walked together to see Shanklin Chine.
"The pages were in the khaki uniform of the Cadet Corps of the 1st-5th crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue ribbons, and carried directoire silver-knobbed sticks, tied with blue ribbon and pink roses, gifts of the bridegroom.
"The pages were in the khaki uniform of the Cadet Corps of the 1st-5th crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue ribbons, and carried directoire silver-knobbed sticks, tied with blue ribbon and pink roses, gifts of the bridegroom.
There was a chine of bacon, small ale, and a plentiful supply of good potatoes.
The farmer did full justice to the sweet picking off the chine, and then lingered over an old cheese.
a chine and a quarter of veal 8s.
A chine and a quarter of mutton 5s.
For instance, in the famous Chinese play, L'Orphelin de la Chine, almost all the noble characters end by suicide, without indicating anywhere or it striking the spectator that they were committing a crime.
à la Chine (Paris, 1782), i. 31; J.A. Dubois, Moeurs, Institutions et Cérémonies des Peuples de l'Inde (Paris, 1825), i. 245 sq
" Another, carrying just a little more of the wine of the country than his legs could bear, stood up unsteadily in his wagon and shouted, "If you (hic) come around these pa-arts again with that thres-in' ma-a-chine, I'll have the law on you,d'ye hear?"
