287 examples of making-up in sentences

It seemed incredible, but soon I could not dodge the conclusion that it was a made-up quarrel designed to impress me.

As she prayed, the rowers continued singing their made-up song: "Ma, our beautiful beloved mother, is on board.

" Thus was sweet FLORA POTTS introduced to her new home; where, but for looking down from her windows at the fashions, making-up hundreds of bows of ribbons for her neck, and making-over all her dresses, her woman's mind must have been a blank.

She should also understand the making-up of little caps, although we can scarcely say this is one of the nurse's duties.

I had a great making-up to arrange with Nature, and I half wondered how she would receive me after all this long time.

"Another chapter in the made-up tragedy," he said, "performed with marvellous skill as you can see.

No made-up nest of weed or sand for him!

We started off finally on foot through streets silent as the gravenot a person, not a lamp, not so much as a barking dog, as queer and as creepy as some made-up thing in a theatre.

" "Kitty," said Miss Panney, "I should think she was trying to impose upon you with a made-up story; but after that luncheon I will believe anything she says about her opportunities.

In addition to the foods we have mentioned, many others might be enumerated, more especially the numerous 'made-up' feeding materials now on the market.

Woolson writes of it, "There is nothing in the fern kingdom which looks so cool and refreshing on a hot day as a mass of this clear-cut, delicately made-up fern.

She looked at them in that humorous, kindly way of hers, looked at their silly, excited, made-up faces with noses sticking out stark, like handles, from a too-heavy application of purplish-white powder.

There had been making-up before, sullen concessions and treaties.

That is nothing but a made-up story about going in there for something she had left.

His boding was made-up of omens, dreams, and such stuff as he most affected to despise, and there fluttered at his heart a presentiment and disgust.

The Parisians were astounded not to see either the dauphin or the Duke of Burgundy coming back within their walls, and at being, as it were, forgotten and deserted amidst the universal making-up.

Every thing in the Service was solemn to me, except the bishop: he seemed to me a made-up man and a mere pageant.

"I have always feared that when the time came for me to be 'my honest self' instead of a 'made-up daisy'"she smiled wearily as she quoted the childish rhyme"Harry would not be big enough to take it well.

The eyebrows were made-up; it was a simple enough proceeding and made still more simple by the beaded veil.

How did she happen to be made-up in this fashion at this particular time?

Then the beads suggest a carefully prepared plan, and, as I said just now, she can hardly have been made-up when she met us in Kennington Lane.

His present tale is a made-up fable.

Lord Cedric felt if he could only tell Katherine that her father was well and in London, it might bring a reconciliation, and his eyes wandered to the hour-glass, and as he noted the golden sands, he thought there was yet time for a lover's quarrel and then a sweet making-up, which should have no limit of time; but, alas!

This frank "making-up" in public was a far more astonishing thing in the 'eighties than it would be now.

In Stratford I was rebuked by the permanent inhabitants for being kind to a little boy in professionally ragged clothing who made me, as he has made hundreds of others, listen to a long, made-up history of Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare, the Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and other thingsthe most hopeless mix!

287 examples of  making-up  in sentences