Do we say plait or plate

plait 91 occurrences

The wreath is the lock of hairperhaps a plait or curl, for otherwise the term wreath is rather wide of the mark.

She leant down towards him holding out her arms and her thick plait of hair struck him across the eyes.

Then she twisted up the heavy plait that hung to her waist, threw back her mantilla and stood laughing before the old lady.

" "Tell me," said Anthea, taking a wisp of hay, and beginning to plait it in dexterous, brown fingers, "tell me how you found it.

She was up on deck in a moment, fully dressed, and with her hair twisted into a long bronze plait that hung down some way below her waist.

I am tired of a religion that makes me plait my hair for eight hours of the day and sends no man to see it.

" "And then he did begin to prank himself, To plait and comb his head, and beard to shave, And look his face i' th' water as a glass, And to compose himself for to be brave.

pliegue, m., fold, plait, wave, ripple.

With it he will cleave the backbone lengthwise, and then, taking each half separately, he will simply twist backwards every second sword and plait them all into a mat two feet wide, eight or ten feet long, and firmly bounded and held together on one side by the unbreakable backbone.

Lace on the white war-hose; Over your bosoms Link up the hard mail-nets; Over your lips Plait long tresses with cunning; So war-beasts full-bearded King Odin shall deem you, When off the gray sea-beach At sunrise ye greet him.' Night's son was driving His golden-haired horses up; Over the eastern firths High flashed their manes.

Her face, with a corn-coloured plait on each side of it, looked at him cautiously from a dark doorway.

There we will wander, you and I, Down guilty and delightful ways, While palm-trees plait their fingers high Against your God's enormous gaze.

The spectators could never be satisfied with demanding a repetition of the performance, and the very natural wish to see the face and front of so lovely a creature, when they had done looking at her from behind, at last became so decided that a merry impatient young wit cried out aloud the words one is accustomed to write at the bottom of a page, "Tournez, s'il vous plait," which was echoed all round the room.

The iron gate was shut, and a sign said, "Sonnez s'il vous plait!"

He used to plait collars for mules.

When we would move way off dey would cut off a plait and give hit tuh us tuh membah dem by.

Mos' uv dem is daid now but ah still membahs dem and ah kin name evah plait now.

But sometimes Pupasse took it into her head to plait it in two braids, as none but the thick-haired ventured to wear it.

A plait thicker than my arm and almost to your knees!

we will then bathe in the sea and ... anoint our skins in the sun with sweet-scented oil, and will plait in wreaths the flowers gathered at Matáwlo.

We will dress ourselves with chi coola, and put bands of white tappa round our waists: we will plait thick wreaths of jiale for our heads, and prepare strings of hooni for our necks, that their whiteness may show off the color of our skins.

May I plait it for thee,I should love so much to do it?"

"If 'twill give thee pleasure thou mayest assuredly plait it," replied Katherine.

The Walter son declared that he would go also, that he would like the walk; the Percy son declared he was going if anybody went; and Genevieve, the girl with the yellow plait, said that she wished she were a boy so that she could go too, and she wished she could go anyway, boy or no boy, and as her father said that there was no earthly reason why she should not go, she ran for her hat.

They are more or less pyriform or long oval in shape, and the two rows decussate with each other along the middle of the branchgiving in the narrower species, especially, much the aspect of an ear of barley, and in the wider of a straw plait.

plate 3763 occurrences

On the 28th of December, Cabral went on shore magnificently dressed and attended by thirty of his principal officers and others, the kings servants, in as much state as if he had been king of Portugal; carrying with him rich furniture for his apartments, with a cupboard of plate containing many rich pieces of gilt silver.

One of these let fly an arrow which hit Pedro on his breast- plate but without hurting him; on which Pedro levelled his piece and shot him dead.

pp. of platear, silvered, silvery, pale. platillo, m., little plate, dish; subject; hacer de, to converse about. playa, f., shore, strand; sin , boundless. plaza, f., place, post, square.

The anonymous pamphlet referred to above, says that Cook does not give the cause of Sutherland's death, and that he had been fatally wounded by the blacks whilst trying to secure a metal plate he had found affixed to a tree, recording that the Dutch had previously been on the spot.

The pamphlet goes on to say that Cook suppressed these facts in order to have the credit of being the first discoverer, but that the plate had been secured by some one and deposited in the British Museum.

Unfortunately, Cook does give the cause of Sutherland's death, and the plate is not in the British Museum, nor has it ever been heard of there.

A plate has since been attached to the rocks about fifteen feet above high water, and as near as possible to the supposed place of landing.

Everything she wore was in the very latest fashion of the Parisian demi-monde, that exaggerated elegance of a fashion plate which only the most exquisite of women could redeem from vulgarity.

Here and there against the fluted yellow drapery he fastened a large Rhodes plate; and the thing was done.

He ate a large plate of blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon, feeling quite the citizen, practically married, a man with responsibilities.

A hole for the stovepipe was waiting, covered by a decorated pie plate.

He ate the last of his homefries and slid the plate across the counter.

She returned with mugs and two toasted English muffins on a plate.

" "Up to the plate, Oliver."

[Footnote 1: In No. 353 and some following numbers of the Spectator appeared an advertisement of this plate, which was engraved by Vertue.

A servant followed her into the room with a plate full of raw eggs, and the doctor was asking for magnesia.

She looked down at the fruit on her plate and shot a side-glance through her lashes at Mrs. Peter Van Degen.

" With this Miss Panney walked into the shop, and having asked the loan of pen and ink, horrified the girl at the counter by proceeding to the table she had left, which, in a corner favored by all customers, had just been prepared for the next comer, and, having pushed aside a knife and fork and plate, made herself ready to write her letter, which was to a friend in Barport, informing her that the writer intended making her a visit.

" I invited him to my house, in the hope of winning him over to the side of morals, gave him a bed and plate, and treated him with courteous and respectful attention.

i., plate xliv.]

That museum holds an immense number of interesting things, and masses of jewels and plate which make all other European collections mean.

So instead she sent him five hundred rupees in a plate.

A kind of theatrical veneer threatened to plate over and obliterate my private individuality altogether.

There's not a whole goblet or plate in the entire establishment!

The bridge was broad with a gold lining-plate, shaped as shown by the enclosed tracing from the diagram on the prescription.

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