398 examples of serge in sentences

20 Serge Shirts, at 6 shillings : 6/0/0.

When Vortigern was assured of his fealty, he caused Constant to put off the monk's serge, and clothe him in furs and rich raiment.

The black audience clustered around Jim Pink in his pinstripe trousers and blue-serge coat.

The girl was dressed in blue serge, and wore a white woollen tam-o'-shanter, while the man had on a dark grey overcoat with a brown felt hat, and nearby, with his eye upon some sheep grazing some distance away, stood a big collie.

Serge, flannel, and cotton are the most popular, and the last predominates.

What jealous lover would dare to lift that curtain of serge behind which are murmured so many secret confidences?

It was as if the fierce little woman in dusty blue serge had struck her in the face.

The chamber was apparently at a boarding-house, but very plainly furnished with red cotton serge curtains and common hair-cloth chairs and sofa.

The dress of the Moors is composed of a linen shirt, over which they fasten a cloth or silk vestment with a sash, loose trowsers reaching to the knee, a white serge cloak, or capote, and yellow slippers: their arms and legs are quite bare.

E E E are each priming charges of seven grains of pistol powder, made up in shalloon bags to insure the ignition of the bursting charge, which is in a bag of serge and shalloon beneath.

SEE Voronoff, Serge.

SEE Schmidt-Pauli, Elisabeth von. VORONOFF, SERGE.

Serge Lefevre (NK); 21Aug69; R467502.

LEFEVRE, SERGE. Journal de l'Estoile pour le regne de Henri III, 1574-1589.

By Andre Berthou & Serge Gremaux.

Andre Berthou & Serge Gremaux (A); 9Jun77; R664672.

ELISSEEFF, SERGE.

by Serge Koussevitzky.

Serge Lefevre (C); 25Nov75; R618970. R618971.

The hall was full of miners, some of them in what is as near an approach to evening dress as is permitted; that is, ordinary blue serge or flannel suits, with sometimes linen collars and ties; the others in the dress I have already told you about that Nelson wears.

Prince Serge Wolkonsky travelled so much and made so many addresses that he made Russia more popular than ever.

" He immediately pulled a sovereign out of his pocket, and, turning to a locker, produced a new suit of blue serge and some necessary linen.

And before longhe and I being, as he had observed, very much of a size, and the serge suit fitting me very wellI was in the streets of Dundee, where I had never been before, seeking out a telegraph office, and twiddling the skipper's sovereign between thumb and finger while I worked out a problem that needed some little thought.

" They had brought me a supply of clothes and money with them, and first thing in the morning I went off to the docks and found my Samaritan skipper, and gave him back his sovereign and his blue serge suit, with my heartiest thanks and a promise to keep him fully posted up in the development of what he called the case.

Her attire seemed that of a friar, even to the small scalloped cape that scantily covered her shoulders, and the coarse black serge, of which her strait gown was composed, leaving exposed her neatly though coarsely clad feet, with their snow-white home-knit stockings, and low-quartered, well-polished calf-skin shoes, confined with steel buckles, and elevated on heels, then worn by men alone.

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