Do we say suede or swayed

suede 15 occurrences

When Miss Hassiebrock walked, her skirt, concealing yet revealing an inch glimmer of gray-silk stocking above gray-suede spats, allowed her ten inches of stride.

"It would be a crime to wear out those perfectly good shoes," said Laura, looking at Violet's trim suede footgear.

Ada Nansen glanced complacently at her own suede pumps and silk stockings.

Yes, with low-cut suede shoes, fastening with two big smoked-pearl buttons."

She was in brown corduroy with suede leather sailor collar and broad belt, a costume which brought out vividly the pure, clear coloring of her face.

Grimshaw was wearing his conspicuous climbing clothestweed jacket, yellow suede waistcoat, knickerbockers, and high-laced boots with hob-nailed soles.

Another slight shrug of incomprehensionof absolution from such practicesand Titine moved to the linen cabinet and took out some fluffy things of lace and ribbon, then to a closet from which she brought a soft room-gown, a pair of silk stockings and some very small suede slippers.

The suede slippers contributed their three inches to her stature, the long lines of the flowing robe added their dignity, and the strands of her hair, each woven carefully into its appointed place, completed the transformation from the touseled, hoydenish boy-girl of half an hour before into the luxurious and somewhat bored young lady of fashion.

" "You know what I desire?" "Oh, oui, parfaitement, Madama hat for the green afternoon robe and one of white" "And a parasol of the same color, shoesof suede with the new heel, dancing slippers of white satin and a pair of pumps.

Then from the train issued Winona, bedecked in alien gauds and fur-belows, her keen little face radiant under a Paris trifle of brown velvet, her small feet activeunder a skirt whose scant length would once have appalled herin brown suede pumps and stockings notoriously of silken texture.

Most tropical fruits were native to Equatoriathose thick, abbreviated red bananas, and small oranges with thin skin of suede finish, so sharply sweet that one never forgets the first taste.

It was written very large and clear: A SON MAJESTE, LE ROI DE SUEDE, STOCKHOLM.

Elijah and the idol-worshipers Bible suede-graph: a Bible story for teaching children.

Elijah and the idol-worshipers Bible suede-graph: a Bible story for teaching children.

" The lips from which these words fell were both tender and ardent; the little gesticulating hands were clad in modish, mouse-colored suede; orris root mixed with some faint, haunting odor, barely caressed the air with perfume.

swayed 832 occurrences

Periodically, I had glimpses of a ghostly track of fire that swayed thin and darkly toward the sun-stream; vanished and reappeared.

Overhead, the river of flame swayed slower, and even slower; until, at last, it swung to the North and South in great, ponderous beats, that lasted through seconds.

This is the primary value of education: it is not that books are important, but that men arethe men who have swayed historyand books tell of such men.

But the helmet swayed so oddly on his shoulders, his voice came from out it in such strange tones, that the more he gesticulated, the more he yelled and threatened me, the louder I laughed.

Then his voice came harshly and he swayed from side to side, gathering and summoning his wrath.

The great drum sounded its loud note, and the dancers, arrayed in wonderful blankets woven in all manner of fanciful designs and trimmed with long woollen fringes, swayed back and forth, up and down, to and fro, in a very graceful manner, keeping time to the music.

The Tyee, in perfect time to the music, swayed back and forth, never ceasing for a moment, shaking his head so that the down was wafted in a snowy cloud all over him.

After the greetings were over, the dancers arranged themselves in opposite lines, men on one side, women on the other, and swayed their bodies while the drum kept up its unceasing tum-tum-tum.

The two poles swayed, inclined toward each other; for one incredible instant the ball, beside its glowing fellow, shone pale and took on human features.

" "Why," said Lanyard with a look of childlike candour, "you might, you know, have been uncontrollably swayed by some passionate impulses of the heart.

Amidst a storm of welcome, Patti came forward to sing, and Ida, listening with rapture, almost forgot her sorrow as she passed under the spell of the magic voice which has swayed so many thousands of hearts.

For, swayed from side to side, he realized that the circus wagon was dashing forward at runaway speed.

Horatio Heatherbloom stood motionless; then his figure swayed slightly.

At this moment his companion swayed and Mr. Heatherbloom had just time to put out his arm; then helped her to a bench.

Involuntarily he raised his hand; then his figure swayed; the street waved up and down.

It swayed back and forward like a stalk of rye or a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it.

The old dame, though much hurt, denied that any such feeling swayed her, and advised him to consult Lucy herself.

She perceived that she had moved throughout like an automaton swayed by a will outside its own; functioning rather than living; performing appointed business, executing prescribed gestures, uttering foreordained observations, and making dictated responses, all without suggestion of spontaneity, and all without meaning other than as means to bridge an empty space of waiting.

From the ceiling, myriads of red and orange paper lanterns swayed brilliantly.

His body swayed; there was an appealing look on his face.

It was now pouring out an unbroken volume of song as it swayed on a twig, like a leaf shaken in the wind.

The wind rose a little, a heavy swell stirred the lake and their light craft swayed with vigor, but the two youths were expert canoemen, none better in all the wilderness, and it shipped no water.

[T. S.]] To conclude: A Church of England man may with prudence and a good conscience approve the professed principles of one party more than the other, according as he thinks they best promote the good of Church and State; but he will never be swayed by passion or interest, to advance an opinion merely because it is that of the party he most approves; which one single principle he looks upon as the root of all our civil animosities.

His body swayed by love and anger, knew not which way to turn, but appeared to sway from side to side.

He drank in her loveliness in rapturous drafts, and swayed from side to side examining with critical eye the outline of her fair mould.

Do we say   suede   or  swayed