11083 examples of dressing in sentences

The Spanish Moorish immigrants introduced the mode of dressing goat and sheep-skins, at first known by the name of Cordovan from Cordova; but, since the Moorish forced immigration, they have acquired the celebrated name of Morocco.

Sister's hands were much more gentle than mine, and Shelley always associated me with pain, little knowing that, if a dressing is to be well and properly done, it is always inseparable from a certain amount of suffering.

he asked of the cowboys dressing sleepily inside the bunk-house.

"Well, she's there," Skinny retorted, "somebody's corraled herthat's certain!" Hurriedly dressing, the cowboys crowded out of the bunk-house and down to the circular corral.

Ophelia was in her own room dressing to go to town.

As soon as I was able, I scuttled out of my ball dress and into a dressing gown.

Marianne and I were in my dressing-room before seven.

I insisted on dressing at once, and took as long as I could in the process of making up; still, when I was ready there was more than half an hour to spare before the first act.

In her absence she had caught the trick of dressing her hair so that it looked even more abundantbut she had not dared to try it so until to-night, when Dwight was gone.

[430] Four years later, three years after Goldsmith's death, Johnson 'observed in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room Goldsmith's Animated Nature; and said, "Here's our friend.

Catching sight of the gold fittings, he snatched up the dressing-case, and would have wrenched off the precious metal.

Charles Grandet sent a cheque for 8,000 francs, asked for the return of his dressing-case, and casually mentioned that he was going to make a brilliant marriage with Mlle.

They'd have wasted it by dressing him up in it, if it hadn't been for me.

After an hour you will wake up, put on a dressing gown and slippers, and proceed to Lady Randolph West's boudoir, taking care not to be observed.

He was evidently dressing at full speed.

In support of the main point there was a short note to Miss Bamberger in Van Torp's handwriting, which had afterwards been found on her dressing-table.

and she was at home in her dressing-room, and there was no more effort to be made till the next day.

But even alone, she did not behave or look very differently; she twisted up her thick brown hair herself, as methodically as ever, and laid out the black velvet gown on the lounge after shaking it out, so that it should be creased as little as possible; but when she was ready to go to bed she put on a dressing-gown and sat down at her table to write to Rufus Van Torp.

A man whose eyes suggested dark almonds need not cover himself with jewellery and adorn himself in naming colours, Margaret thought; and she resented his way of dressing, much more than ever before.

The three men were let out in due time, however, and as no trace of a warrant could be discovered at that hour, Logotheti and Griggs being already sound asleep, and as Lord Creedmore, in his dressing-gown and slippers, gave them a written statement to the effect that Mr. Van Torp was no longer at Craythew, they had no choice but to return to town, rather the worse for wear.

As the latter employment engaged the great body of the Israelites, the Apostle amplifies his illustration under that head by much detailand enumerates the five great departments of agricultural labor among the Jewsvine-dressing, plowing, sowing, reaping and threshing, as the representatives of universal labor.

He had, indeed, suggested baiting the dressing-table with the farmer's watch, an idea which Mr. Negget had promptly vetoed.

CUCUMBERS IN OIL One hundred medium-sized cucumbers, sliced thin lengthwise, add one pint salt, let stand overnight, drain thoroughly in morning, add two pints of sliced onions, then add dressing, consisting of four tablespoons of black mustard seed, four of white mustard seed, two of celery seed, one-half pint of best olive oil, one-half pint of white vinegar.

Let stand twenty-four hours; bring to a boil in same solution, drain and make the dressing.

They are then ready for dressing.

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