574 examples of scarves in sentences

On them, among hats, caps, and coatsand also Mr. Saffron's gray shawlhung two long neck-scarves, comforters that the keen heath winds made very acceptable on a walk.

Bag-pipes are not unknown in the Musalman quarters of Bombay; and not infrequently you may watch a crescent of ten or twelve wild Arab sailors in flowing brown gowns and parti-coloured head-scarves treading a measure to the rhythm of the bagpipes blown by a younger member of their crew.

From time to time you catch a glimpse of the black sphinx-faces, immobile and heavy-eyed, framed in scarves bearing a bold pattern of red monkeys and blue palm-trees: and as the din increases the owners of those inscrutable faces creep out and sink down upon a strip of china matting on the far side of the room.

That it was my opinion that the hundred and fifty Representatives of the Left should put on their scarves of office, should march in procession through the streets and the boulevards as far as the Madeleine, and crying "Vive la République!

Several were girded with their scarves of office.

Some of them had put on their scarves of office.

They are narrow, thickly-woven silk scarves, six varas in length, with oblique white stripes on a dark-brown ground.

These objects consisted of pillow-cases, screens, portières, decorative panels, banners, scarves, cushions, handkerchiefs, bodices and various other details of feminine attire, with rich vestments for the clergy, and sumptuous altar-cloths.

Half an hour later we came out of the shop, the shopman more obsequious than ever, not only wearing topis, but laden with boxes of Turkish Delight, ostrich-feather fans, tinsel scarves, and a string of pink beads which he swore were coral, but I greatly doubt it.

Elaboration is easily obtained by bright-coloured gloves, scarves or swanks.

There were three of these negresses, splendid bronze creatures, wearing white djellabahs over bright-coloured caftans, striped scarves knotted about their large hips, and gauze turbans on their crinkled hair.

No white satin ties, which always look dirty, such as one sees in London and other great towns, but broad, old-fashioned scarves of many colours or of blue "birdseye" mellowed by age.

She looked down a long perspective of glittering show-cases filled with the minor luxuries of the toilet, the ruffs, the collars, the slipper-rosettes, the embroidered belts, the hair ornaments, the chiffon scarves, all objects diverse, innumerable, perishable as mist in tree-branches, all costly in exact ratio to their fragility.

And there came ten hundred fishers, having all white flannel clothes and black hats and white scarves about them, and he gave the sway to them.

Gunners and drivers were muffled in coats and woolen scarves, and sat half-asleep on their horses and wagons.

Their heads were bound with bright-colored fillets, their necks with gay scarves.

Esther Levenson, wrapped in peacock-blue scarves, stood upright before the black mantel, her hands crossed on her breast.

"My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large scarves."SPECT.: in Joh.

Gloves, socks, scarves and gifts.

Gloves, socks, scarves and gifts.

To my learned Correspondent who writes against Master's Gowns, and Poke Sleeves, with a Word in Defence of large Scarves.

They'll look grand in their scarves and cloaks at my funeral.

What mattered it that scarves and kerchiefs were waved to him by some of the fairest dames in the land?

The cries of Aveline and the elderly dame were stifled by scarves tied over their heads; and both being in a fainting condition from fright, they were borne to the litter which was standing at the door, and being shut up within it, were conveyed as quickly as might be to Sir Giles Mompesson's mansion, near the Fleet.

The streets are very narrow, but very clean, and the constant repetition in houses and scarves and flags of the national colors gives Heligoland a gay aspect; for the national colors are anything but dull.

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