82 examples of pinafore in sentences

One day Martin ran into the house looking very flushed and joyous, holding up his pinafore with something heavy in it.

[Illustration: ] When they looked they were amazed and horrified to see a spotted green snake coiled comfortably up in the pinafore.

" Martin stared, surprised at the fuss they were making; then, still tightly holding the ends of his pinafore, he turned and ran out of the room and away as fast as he could go.

"Fancy myself," she thought, "dressing a doll like Lily Putland, or wearing a pinafore like Lucy Tucker!"

A girl in a white pinafore, upon the platform, was calling over the names when we entered.

The child stared up into her cousin's face, turning and twisting her white pinafore through her fingers.

Every time the big girl took her pinafore away from her, she picked it up again.

replied Psyche, hurrying on her gray linen pinafore.

They came out presently hand in hand, a little girl of five in a blue tam-o'-shanter cap, a pale pink frock, and a white pinafore, and a boy of three, the merriest, most sturdy little fellow I thought I had ever seen.

A famous peripety of the romantic order occurs in H.M.S. Pinafore, where, on the discovery that Captain Corcoran and Ralph Rackstraw have been changed at birth, Ralph instantly becomes captain of the ship, while the captain declines into an able-bodied seaman.

" At these touching words Miss Nugent was undisguisedly affected, and wiping her bright eyes with her pinafore, gave her small, well-shaped nose a slight touch en passant with the same useful garment, and squeezed his arm affectionately.

There she was, with her sleeves turned back, and a large pinafore apron over her rich bosom, kneading flour.

Alfred took a corner of her white pinafore, wetted it, and tried to wash off the marks of tears.

Mrs. Jenkin wiped her eyes with a pinafore of Valerie's, which happened to lie handy.

This they all declared impossible, and cried afresh, but Sarah persevered, and quietly went on piling up the shells, till at last one little mourner took up her coarse pinafore and wiping her eyes, said, "Sarah does it very nicely."

Now the law of kindness prevailed, and when the time came to run down to the shore for some more shells, to replace those that had been broken, Susy, at Sarah's hint, ran first and fastest, and brought her little pinafore fullest of all.

Buttercup (Little), Bumboat woman, who in her youth, took to baby-farming, and "mixed those babies up," i.e. Ralph Rackstraw and the Captain of the Pinafore.

W.S. Gilbert, Pinafore (1877).

I put a pair of white socks and shoes and a clean pinafore on the little girl, and combed her golden curls.

SUMMY-BIRCHARD CO. H.M.S. Pinafore.

Ivy Olive Eastwick (A); 12Aug74; R584898. R584899. H.M.S. Pinafore.

FREEMAN, WARREN S. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The lass that loved a sailor.

I played Sir Joseph Porter in 'Pinafore' every night for nearly two years.

Fancy playing 'Pinafore,' as I did, for 700 nights without missing a single performance!"

The round table of rude black oak was set for a meal, and a young woman was feeding a child in a pinafore who sat in a high-chair.

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