You light-skirt stars, this is your wonted guise, By gloomy light perk out your doubtful heads; But when Dan Phoebus shows his flashing snout, You are sky-puppies; straight your light is out. PHANTASMA.

Ladies and gentlemen were promenading up and down, under the umbrageous foliage of the lofty trees which skirt the Battery Park, and which were as yet unscathed by the recent frosts, forming a delightful retreat from the scorching rays of an American sun.

While I remained in Buffalo, I took several excursions to the towns that skirt this beautiful inland sea.

She held herself in leash while her mother lifted a skirt and found a large loaded pocket within and a purse in the pocket and a sixpence in the purse.

He had kept his eyes on her slim bust and tight-girded waist that sprung suddenly neat and smooth out of the curving skirt-folds, and it had not occurred to him to exclaim even in his own heart: "With your girlishness and your ferocity, your intimidating seriousness and your delicious absurdity, I would give a week's wages just to take hold of you and shake you!"

A muff, brightly coloured to match the skirt and the bonnet and her cheeks, completed the costume.

It was Florrie's afternoon out, and the child was wearing, for the first time, an old brown skirt that Hilda had abandoned to her.

But in this long skirt she was no more a child.

The miraculous skirt, odious on Hilda, had the brightness of a new skirt.

The miraculous skirt, odious on Hilda, had the brightness of a new skirt.

"Why, Florrie," Hilda exclaimed, "what have you put that old skirt on for, when I've given you mine?

I told the boy you were here, but he said that wasn't no affair of his, so I brought it myself, and I thought you wouldn't care for to see me in your skirt, miss, not while on duty, miss, 'specially here like!

Pendency N. pendency^, dependency; suspension, hanging &c v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening &c 45; spar, horse.

V. lie around &c adv.; surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird^; skirt, twine round; hem in &c (circumscribe) 229.

V. be on one side &c adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.

It was true; Clotilde was there, undressed like himself, her bare feet covered by canvas slippers, her legs bare, her arms bare, her shoulders bare, clad only in her chemise and a short skirt.

Here, then, with deadly apprehensions, we peered amongst the rocks, holding our breath, clutching tight hold of one another by the hand, in terror of finding that we so eagerly searched,a hood, a woman's skirt clinging to the stones, a stiffened hand thrust up from the lapping waters.

They wear one long loose flowing garment, much like the skirt of a gown; this is tightly twisted round the body above the bosoms, leaving the neck and arms quite bare.

she beheld in the window a timely hooped skirt,a daring speculation wherein she had lately invested, in consideration of the growing importance of her millinery department; and straightway Miss Wimple went and took the hoop, and offered it up for a pride-offering in the stead of her delicacy, that was so dear to her.

some stains, like iron-mould, on the skirt, she covered with three flounces, made of some fine crape that was left from her mother's funeral.

The low-necked dress had been as unseasonable as the substitution of the hooped skirt for the quilted petticoat was imprudent.

For the first time her wet skirt exposed her feet, encased in torn stockings.

Where does it get you?" "It gets you just here"Leverage talked slowly, heavily, tapping his spatulate fingers on the table to emphasize his points"we know this bird was going to elope with some skirt.

A pale, earthy-skinned peasant, scantily clad in dusty canvas, grinned sadly and kissed the hem of her skirt, calling her 'Excellency' and beginning at once to beg for reduction of rent.

She guessed, perhaps, that Gianluca had made up his mind never to leave her roof except as her lawful husband, clinging to her, as he had tried to cling to her skirt on that most eventful day when she had gone to the window for a moment; and she understood why, having spoken once, he would not speak again.