20810 examples of dress in sentences

The curtain, rising, discovers Perkins, in evening dress, reading a newspaper by the light of a lamp on the table.

The idea of your putting on your dress suit, Thaddeus!

Heahhe forgot about thethe meeting here to-night, and hehe put on his dress-coat.

"National prosperity," says Cobbett, "shows itself ... in the plentiful meal, the comfortable dwelling, the decent furniture and dress, the healthy and happy countenances, and the good morals of the labouring classes of the people."

R598810. Medea in modern dress.

The lady wore a black silk dress, of good and indeed costly material, but white with the dust that had settled upon it.

(she felt her silk dress), 'and has done very well without any machines, which cost a deal of moneyand Heaven knows there's a vast amount going out every day.'

His son and the labourerwho could hardly have been distinguished apart so far as their dress wentstood gazing after him for a few minutes.

Then there was the bicycle dress, the morning coat, the shooting jacket, and the dinner coat, not to mention the Ulster or Connaught overcoat, the dust coat, and minor items innumerable.

They have, it is true, an acceptable excuse for preferring riding to walkingthe fashion of tying the dress back so tightly makes it extremely difficult for a lady to get over a country stile.

While wearing the dress of a lady, the wife cannot tuck up her sleeves and see to the butter, or even feed the poultry, which are down at the pen across 'a nasty dirty field.'

The laws of Mann (III., 20-134) recognized eight kinds of marriage: (1) gift of a daughter to a man learned in the Vedas, (2) gift of a daughter to a priest; (3) gift of a daughter in return for presents of cows, etc.; (4) gift of a daughter, with a dress.

After a time the girls who went to the jungle began to use the comb and looking glass and to dress and oil their hair there; it became a regular custom for them to go first to the flat stone before collecting their firewood or leaves.

They foresaw that the men would not be able to resist the drink; and that having started they would go on till they were dead drunk: it would then be easy for the women to dress themselves like men and go off to Marang Buru and learn witchcraft in place of their husbands.

I have made no attempt to put the following stories into a literary dress; I merely bring them as a few stones to the hands of the builders who build the structure of comparative mythology.

Then the princess let the Kamar girl take off all her jewellery and her beautiful dress and went to draw water from the well.

Then the Kamar girl drew water from the well and went back to Lita and poured some into his mouth, and directly the water touched his lips he came back to life, and as the Kamar girl had put on the dress and jewellery of the Belbati princess he thought that she was the bride for whom he had sought.

Some one has said that "the wise young man will wear out three dress suits in a year."

On the 6th of August, 1762, a decree of the Parliament of Paris, soon confirmed by the majority of the sovereign courts, declared that there was danger (abus) in the bulls, briefs, and constitutions of the Society, pronounced its dissolution, forbade its members to wear the dress and to continue living in common under the sway of the general and other superiors.

Four thousand Jesuits found themselves affected by this decree; some left France, others remained still in their families, assuming the secular dress.

Of the clouds we really cannot say more than that they are often very beautiful, and sometimes dress up the mountains in grandeur not their own; but I have seen none that might not be Cornish clouds.

He brought me the gray clothing and helped me to dress; he turned the pockets of my blue clothes and selected such things as I needed.

Yet the menno doubt the same non-commissioned officer, with the private he had just relieved from duty as a vedettepassed so near me that I could distinctly see their dress, and could note its worn and bedraggled appearance.

He said: "I am going to dress your head.

He began to dress my head.

20810 examples of  dress  in sentences