108 examples of pigtail in sentences

What would he do with his pigtail?

Late advices from China convey the intelligence that the American-Chinese General WARD, who died in the service of the Celestial empire, has been postmortuarily brevetted to the rank of a "major god," and is now regularly worshipped as such by JOHN PIGTAIL.

Coolie labor, with its possible abuses, may engage the attention of the philanthropists, next, and we may yet behold JOHN PIGTAIL on a pedestal, in the character of an American "major god."

In the culinary department of a newspaper we find a recipe for making "bird's nest pudding," which would surely make the pigtail of a JOHN Chinaman stick straight up on end.

Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights, and boots.

I can fancy what he makes of uspoor old Damon and Pythiaswhile he holds the skeins; with a smile for poor old Pythias' pigtail, and a tremor of the voice for the Emperor's tabatière, and a tear, no doubt, for the letter which never comes.

All Axcester laughed at his long blue surtout, his pigtail and little round hat.

As a matter of fact the mere sight of a pigtail was sufficient to remind him of a certain episode in his career which he had been for years endeavouring to forget.

won't you believe me, when I say that I saw his pigtail?" "Believe you, of course I will," replied Kitwater good-humouredly.

Shortly after this, on the anniversary of my honoured old master, Zachariah Pigtail's birth, when we were allowed to strike work at noon, I determined, as a dernier resort, as a clincher, sir, to act the genteel, and invite Miss Lucy, in her furs and falderals, to accompany me to the Exhibition of Pictures.

"Some day when he comes here with that basket of rats I'm going to cut his pigtail off close behind his ears.

Then a smile came over his face and he reached out a hand and took the bobbing pigtail into his hand and gave it a quick jerk.

The pigtail came away in his hand, and with it a bunch of coarse hair and an odor!

Women, he asserted, were the bane of society and the ruination of all men; but he had always considered Harold as too sensible to neglect his business to stand grinning at a pesky youngster in short skirts and a pigtail.

She was a bony little girl, with quick, greenish eyes and a meagre pigtail of hair of the hue that will often cause a girl to be called Carrots.

" Her hands flew to her pigtail.

With the knife a shallow grave was opened close to the stone whereon old Jonas Whipple taunted the living that they were but mortal, and in it they laid the pigtail to its last rest, patting the earth above it and replacing the turf against possible ghouls.

An hour before the close of the poll I saw, with the unnatural clearness of polling-day fatigue, a large white face at the window of the ward committee-room, while a hoarse voice roared: 'Where's your bloody pigtail?

per annum, and a grey pigtail:" the match turns out a miserable one: Amelia's dishonour by Vavasor Kendal, her divorce, and Mr. Allanby's death are told in a few pagesthe guilty pair, Vavasor and Amelia, flee to Paris, and we are introduced to this faithful picture of Parisian vice: "The infirmity of Amelia's health served at least to release her from those forced efforts of gaiety which had recoiled so heavily on her feelings.

Beside him sat William Peers, a thin old gentleman, who had lived for more than thirty years in India, and was quiet and benevolent, and the last man in Golden Friars who wore a pigtail.

The pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with seventeen other laughable tales and 200 comical silhouettes.

The pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with seventeen other laughable tales and 200 comical silhouettes.

Evans' dream shifted to the moment when he had Chang-hi's pigtail in his hand.

He bequeaths, 'To Mr. John Grattan a silver-box, to keep in it the tobacco which the said John usually chewed, called pigtail.'

Sometimes a patient Chinaman, flappin' of the flies with his pigtail, will industrusly manufacture that same per schedule out of common, ordinary lead, and, by exercisin' the art of gildin', almost whip-saw people by the name of Scraggs, if so it hadn't 'a' been their gardeen angel moved 'em to try a sample with the edge of a knife.' "Was I warned?

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