84 examples of mantillas in sentences

Here and there a nun's cap or the blue veil of a nursing sister showed itself amidst the black mantillas.

" She looked back at him over her shoulder, through the fold of her mantilla.

He quitted the hut and overheard the woman pointing out to Juanita that she had lost her mantilla coming through the trees in the dark.

She wore no hat, but her head was altogether covered by one of those things which are neither hoods nor mantillas nor veils, but which serve women for any of the three, according to weather and circumstances.

The bright uniforms of officers and men, the white dresses of American ladies, the black mantillas of the dark-eyed señoritas, and the gayly colored camisas of the Filipino girls show that the beauty and chivalry of Manila have assembled at the concert.

Some had flowers in their dark hair and some covered their heads with a lace mantilla.

The ladies wear hats instead of mantillas, but they buy hats on Calle Obispo just as and where their mothers and grandmothers bought mantillas.

The ladies wear hats instead of mantillas, but they buy hats on Calle Obispo just as and where their mothers and grandmothers bought mantillas.

It will be a long time before that is entirely lost, but five-story office buildings, automobiles in the afternoon parade, steaks or ham and eggs at an eight or nine o'clock breakfast, and all kinds of indescribable hats in place of dainty and graceful mantillas, seem to me a detraction, like bay-windows and porticos added to an old colonial mansion.

The dainty little señoritas in their silk and satin gowns, with filmy mantillas thrown over their heads and shoulders, and the men not less gorgeous in lace-trimmed velvet suits and elaborate serapes.

The captain found special enjoyment in surveying the ladies in lace mantillas who were selecting bouquets in the refreshing atmosphere.

R85299, 22Oct51, Barbara Mary Sydney Maxwell & Henry William Austin Maxwell (C) MAY, STELLA BURKE. Men, maidens, and mantillas.

R85299, 22Oct51, Barbara Mary Sydney Maxwell & Henry William Austin Maxwell (C) MAY, STELLA BURKE. Men, maidens, and mantillas.

It was nearly daylight, and several women with bowed heads, their mantillas falling over their eyes, were passing in front of the iron grating.

In this scattered assemblage, listening to the music, stood out the pupils from the school of noble ladies, some of them quite girls, others proud-looking young women in all the pride of their budding beauty, looking on with glowing eyes, all dressed in black silk, with mantillas of blonde mounted over high combs with bunches of rosesaristocratic ladies with "manolesca" grace, escaped from a picture by Goya.

For the maidens were by this time returning, and Columba, robed in white, with a black veil, worn mantilla fashion over her raven hair, so as to shade her soft, liquid, dark eyes, came up the steps, and with a graceful obeisance to her father and the Bishop, took the seat to which the former drew her beside them.

Her tall supple figure was clothed in white, and over her gold hairlurid and brilliant, but without a tinge of redshe wore a white lace mantilla.

The girls and young married women wore black or white mantillas, the silken lace of Spain, regardless of the sun which might darken their Castilian fairness.

From all, the mantilla and serape had been removed, jewels sparkled in the lace shirts of the men, white throats were encircled by the invariable necklace of Baja Californian pearls.

"Shall I bring thy mantilla, Doña Carmen?" She looked up with a swift blush, then lowered her soft black eyes suddenly before the penetrating gaze of the man who was so different from the caballeros.

Twelve rebosos were made for her; Doña Trinidad gave her one of her finest mantillas; Chonita, the white satin embroidered with poppies, for which she had conceived a capricious dislike.

Above all this gorgeousness sat the caballeros and the doñas, in velvet and silk, gold lace and Spanish, jewels and mantillas, and silver-weighted sombreros; a confused mass of color and motion; a living picture, shifting like a kaleidoscope.

With that piece of news, and its subsequent developments, your acquaintance with him begins and ends; the eyes, the fan, the mantilla, how it began, how it was broken off, and how it began again.

The sombre taste of the Spanish ladies in dress, so famous and effective that the black mantillas and skirts, and the fans that do such execution in the hands of the dark-eyed coquettes, as to have sway where empires have been lost and woncontrol Cuba, but does not dominate the Philippines.

As rapidly as I could, I altered my dressthis time above my clothesthrew on the black silk frock and mantilla prepared for me on shipboard, tied a dark veil over my head, an old woolen scarf about my throat, provided for Ernie's sore-throat and croup, and stood equipped for my enterprise.

84 examples of  mantillas  in sentences