185 examples of crapes in sentences

There was a walk in Père Jerome's little garden, of which we have not spoken, off on the right side of the cottage, with his chamber window at one end, a few old and twisted, but blossom-laden, crape-myrtles on either hand, now and then a rose of some unpretending variety and some bunches of rue, and at the other end a shrine, in whose blue niche stood a small figure of Mary, with folded hands and uplifted eyes.

She averted her face, and began picking the thin scales of bark from a crape-myrtle.

A black-bordered funeral notice, veiled with crape, announced that the great Caller-home of exiles had served his summons upon Don Pedro Hernandez (surname borrowed for the occasion), and Don Carlos Mendez y Benito.

The old cottage sat silent with closed doors, the crape hanging heavily over the funeral notice like a widow's veil, the little unseen garden sending up odors from its hidden censers, and the old weeping-willow bending over all.

As she spoke, Jessie came in and took her upstairs to her room to put on the thick black cloak, the bonnet with its long crape veil, in which Ida was to follow her father to the grave; for in spite of Mr. Wordley's remonstrances, she had remained firm in her resolve to go to the church-yard.

My dame should dress in cheap attire; (Good, heavy silks are never dear;) I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.

Soon as the tarts appear, "Sir CRAPE, withdraw!

What crape could blind a lover's eyes, or what forced tone deceive a lover's ears?

There was no mourner to see him home except his daughter, and she without a bit of black upon her, for she had no time to get her crapes; and yet she needed none, having grief writ plain enough upon her face.

Wear black border on their spirit; Hang their hopes with crape; Future's gloomy and they fear it, Sure there's no escape.

Harry related the circumstances by which he had come in possession of the curiosity, and from the presents of silks, crapes, fruits, etc., which he had brought to the Sea-flower, she turned to the mysterious little curiosity with a greater interest, examining the grotesque figures with a fascination, when accidentally pressing a pearl setting, the box (for such it was discovered to be,) flew open, and revealed to her bewildered gazewhat?

For one month all the free coloured people wore crape as mourning for Thomas Clarkson.

For with the words which I read were all mixed up visions of crawling hearses, wails, and lugubrious crapes, and piercing shrieks of madness in strange earthy vaults, and all the mournfulness of the black Vale of Death, and the tragedy of corruption.

Embarrassed as the Architect outwardly appeared (for in his black, close-fitting, modern civilian's dress, he formed a wonderful contrast with the gauze crape fringes, tinsel tassels, and crown), he very soon composed himself internally, and the scene became all the more strange.

"Because then we bustle out of church, and get home as fast as we can, to save mamma's crape; and we have not to go and cry over papa.

" "A second marriage," thought Mr. Raleigh, "and before the orphan's crapes are"Then, fearful lest she should read his thought, he added,"And how do you speak such perfect English?" "Oh, my father came to see us every other year, and I have written home twice a week since I was a little child.

They settled in different parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c.

Her black straw hat was trimmed with stiff new crape, and her stiff new bombazine dress had crape collar and cuffs.

Her black straw hat was trimmed with stiff new crape, and her stiff new bombazine dress had crape collar and cuffs.

Comely indeed he was, especially on state occasions, when he appeared in all the radiance of rosy health, overflowing spirits, and the richest crapes and satins,decorated with the high order of the peacock's feather, the red button, and numberless glittering ornaments of ivory and lapis-lazuli.

One can be happy when the birds are singing and the dew is on the grass, and there is no cloud in all the sky, and the crape has not yet hung at the door.

It was very low inside the house, and so dim, with the closed blinds, that they could scarcely see one another: Editha tall and black in her crapes which filled the air with the smell of their dyes; her father standing decorously apart with his hat on his forearm, as at funerals; a woman rested in a deep arm-chair, and the woman who had let the strangers in stood behind the chair.

KYOTO (298), from 784 to 1868 the capital of Japan, on the Kamo River, inland, 190 m. W. of Yedo; is still the centre of Japanese Buddhism, and is noted for its pottery, bronze-work, crapes, and velvets.

The windows were heavily draped with crape, and a funeral air pervaded the house.

We were very quiet, and I wore the white slip in which he showed me myself in the glass as a a bride,for we would not cast aside our crapes so soon, and Mary wears hers to this day.

185 examples of  crapes  in sentences