188 examples of smocked in sentences

What lady, smocked in morning cambric, would not be wooed by such a voice?

The frock was a brown smock with a narrow green belt.

On went the new smock over her head in a twinkling.

The poorest peasant in his smock was a more courteous and valiant gentleman than was a belted knight beyond the sea.

There was a carter's smock for him, white and quilted over with needlework, such as carters wear on the Down farms, and for me a smaller one, and hats and leather leggings all to match.

' I took his hand, and thanked him with what words I could that he had let me go, and then got on the smock, putting some bread and meat in my pockets, as I was likely to find little to eat on my journey.

It struck ten, and as the heat increased the birds sang less and the droning of the bees grew more distinct, and at last I got up, shook myself, smoothed my smock, and making a turn, came out on the road that led to the house.

So while I looked at her, she looked at me, and could not choose but smile to see my carter's smock; and as for my brown face and hands, thought I had been hiding in some country underneath the sun, until I told her of the walnut-juice.

They went for coffee to a queer little burrow decorated with improving sentiments from the immortal Lewis Carroll which, Barbran told the Bonnie Lassie, was making its blue-smocked, bobbed-haired, attractive and shrewd little proprietress quite rich.

And all these colourless eventless lives depend on the favour of one fat tyrannical man, bloated with good living and authority, himself almost as inert and sedentary as his women, and accustomed to impose his whims on them ever since he ran about the same patio as a little short-smocked boy.

Pick up little articles of dress, tools, furniture, especially from low lifeas an actual smock, &c. 9.

Twenty men were at one time besieging him to grasp his hand, and tears, not rhetorically, but actually, were streaming down their facesRussian, German, Belgian, and American, high and low, countrymen and citymen, smocked and frocked.

W. Brough, A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock.

W. Brough, A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock.

There was a sound of heavy footsteps and the door was flung open wide and a big man with rumpled hair, a well-smeared painting-smock and wearing a huge pair of tortoise-shell goggles peered out into the dark hall-way, blurting out impatiently, "I'm very busy.

They struck boldly across the meadows, which were gay with lady's smock, and he walked, by special request, between her and three matronly cowsfeeling as Perseus might have done when he fended off the sea-monster.

SEE Smock, Nell Stolp.

Not the smock-frocked man, getting out of the forwardmost Third, with his stick and bundle, thinks of him, or stops a moment to see him back out and turn into the stable.

For my part, says he, when I am walking in my Gallery in the Country, and see my Ancestors, who many of them died before they were of my Age, I cannot forbear regarding them as so many old Patriarchs, and at the same time looking upon myself as an idle Smock-fac'd young Fellow.

Would I were honestly married To any thing that had but half a face, And not a groat to keep her, nor a smock, That I might be civilly merry when I pleased, Rather than labouring in these Fulling-mills.

When her smock was over her ears: but she was no more pliant than if it hung about her heels.

Believe me; if my Wedding-smock were on, Were the Gloves bought and given, the Licence come, Were the Rosemary-branches dipt, and all The Hipochrist and Cakes eat and drunk off, Were these two armes incompast with the hands Of Bachelors to lead me to the Church, Were my feet in the door, were I John, said, If John should boast a favour done by me, I would not wed that year:

(LIX) Allow each hand a smock and a cloak every other year.

As often as you give out a smock or cloak to any one take up the old one, so that caps can be made out of it.

How about the white smock I ordered? EVERSMANN.

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