199 examples of try on in sentences

It makes me feel, too, a little bit glum, To see how everything goes on the same; Some day, I s'pose, my turn 'll come, When I'll have to try on poor JAKE'S little game, And they won't mind me any more, I'll bet.

BelowU.S. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker getting ready to try on an American infantryman's pack at a rest camp in England.

But mind you don't try on any runnin' away with my boat.

"It's Shoemaker Styles," the maid informed Sibyl, "and he says you must come down and try on the slipper he has brought; he's not sure about the heel.

If there were a pony to break in, a sick child to be nursed, a groom to scold, a pig to be killedthere was Sarah; but if a frock to try on, a visit to be paid, a note to be writtenwhere was she? Peter, recalling these things, tried to laugh at himself for his extraordinary infatuation of the previous day; but he knew very well in his heart that he could not really laugh, and that he had lain awake half the night thinking of her.

If she would only go to the Beautiful Wicked Witch's house, she could try on that dress, and wear it for one whole day if she liked.

" "Oh, so you did want to try on the pretty frock after all," cried the Witch, and drew her up the stairs.

only because I did not call at the very moment to try on the suit.

This gave the Levies time to get ahead and send some scouts up the hills to the right, in order to give timely warning if the enemy should try on the rolling stone dodge, but the hills just here did not lend themselves very readily to this mode of warfare.

say that it was put down in one of them ancient books, that a man must cry, himself, if he wants to make other folks cry; but, says he, you can't make 'em neither laugh nor cry, if you don't try on them feelin's yourself before you send your work to the customers.

When are you going to try on?" * *

At last she felt herself alive and young again, and it became a joy to look in her glass and to try on her new hats and dresses...

Not only had this school-keeping wretch come between him and the scheme by which he was to secure his future fortune, but his image had so infected his cousin's mind that she was ready to try on him some of those tricks which, as he had heard hinted in the village, she had once before put in practice upon a person who had become odious to her.

Then another day I come scudding back again to try on.

All the time I am only saying to myself, 'I must hollow out a bit here; I must slope away there'; and I am making a perfect slave of her, making her try on my doll's dress.

"I am going to the Italian Opera to try on," said Miss Wren, taking away her hand, and laughing satirically to hide that she had been crying.

I only wished he hadn't, and had jest given her a little saas, for I've been takin' boxin'-lessons, 'n' I've got a new way of counterin' I want to try on to somebody.

"You'll grow faster this timeyou're going into the country, you must rememberboys always grow fast in the country; go into the other room and try on the trowsers.

"If it proves too risky to try on horseback I can do it on foot," replied Sterry; "in the darkness I will be taken for one of them, and, if questioned, can throw them off their guard.

He sent people throughout the whole city to try on the shoe, and they came to the house where the sheep-brother was.

"I hope Bubbles won't try on any more of her thought-reading tomfoolery," he said disagreeably.

On being told that "Miss Markham" had not the pattern, Eunice presumed Melinda Jones could cut one, and then, while the cooled water was heating on the coals which Andy raked out upon the hearth, Eunice asked if she might just try on the "vasquine" and let Miss Markham see how she looked in it.

The canyon had grown too rough for the horses to go farther and it would have been useless for us to try on foot.

Hammer this into BULL's big noddle, Until he just puts down his foot On temporising timid twaddle, And you will do a vast deal more To keep our drowsy British Lion In health, and strength and wakeful roar Than all the schemes Tryon may try on.

To try on Jimmie's ring, Mrs. Jimmie took off all hers and laid them on the counter.

199 examples of  try on  in sentences