Her head was bowed nowher glorious, proud little head,and she sat silent, an abashed heap of fluffy frills and ruffles, a tiny bundle of vaporous ruchings and filmy tucks and suchlike vanities, in the green dusk of the summer-house.

So the birch tree is chosen, partly for its grace and beauty, but also because of its bark, for one can scribble on its papery surface; the hazel, because children delight in the catkins with their showers of golden dust, and the nut "hidden in its cap of frills and tucks."

And he tucks her, in her little sky-blue mantle, under his arm, and walks away.

and tucks her in her little sky-blue mantle, under his arm, and walks into the house much bolder than Brass.

He's never worried a sheep from that day to this, and if you offer him a bit of sheep's wool now, he tucks his tail between his legs, and runs for home.

That's a little loose for even Sam, and she can't take any tucks in it.

"If it were only a dress, now!" "What then?" "Why, you could just let out the tucks.

If you feed an Anemone on raw meat, it tucks the pieces into its mouth, and, some days after, throws out the hard part of the meat, having taken all the "goodness" from it.

But I'll look up a crape Rachel jacket; we'll let out the tucks, and it'll fit you like the paper on the wall.

" Moll nods, and with ready wit takes the ribbon from her head, letting her pretty hair tumble all about her shoulders, and then whipping up her long skirt, tucks one end under her girdle, thereby making a very dainty show of pink lining against the dark stuff, and also giving more play for her feet.

The skin lay in tucks and folds, as if the animal had put on a coat that had not been made for him.

The winner 'tucks.'

Tucks him in bed at night, for all I know.

She had a long apron thing that fastened over the shoulders and with tucks at the edge, and a strip of white stuff up round her neckay, she looked well.

They will plan attractive spacing for tucks, ruffles and embroidery for underwear.'

Women have entered nearly three hundred different occupations and trades in America within the past quarter of a century, three hundred trades and occupations, and they are to qualify for these by learning to space tucks attractively.

While it is charming to drop anchor every now and then in a snug, new harbour, where Nature, as she tucks you in with woodland green, has smiles and graces that you never saw before, yet the houseboater soon learns that each delightful, new-found pocket in the watery world means necessity for several other new-found things.

Its fashioning is quaint: the Watteau pleat in the back with tiny tucks each side at the slim waist line, the square low neck, the close elbow sleeves, the open front to display the quilted petticoat.

At four in the afternoon, a negress visits in turn every bedroom, sweeps out the mosquitoes from the curtains with a feather-brush, and lets down the mosquito-net, which she tucks in around the bed.

When the dishes were washed, and the floor swept, and the broom hung up in its place, and the sleeves of the brown, dotted calico rolled down, she went herself to see Ethelyn, her quick eye noticing the elaborate night-gown, with its dainty tucks and expensive embroidery, and her thoughts at once leaping forward to ironing day, with the wonder who was to do up such finery.

" Now these same puffs, and embroidery, and ruffles, and tucks had excited Eunice's liveliest admiration, and her fingers fairly itched to see how they would look hanging on the clothes bars after passing through her hands.

Miss Fairbairn had that morning tasted the sweetness of hope, and she now experienced a sharp pang of jealousy when she saw the children hanging about Emily with familiar friendliness, treading on her tucks, whispering confidences in her ears, and putting their flowers on the clean chintz of her ottomans.

Flounces and tucks, which rise high in the skirt, are not suitable to short persons; they cut the figure and destroy symetry.

Aunt Mercy took the tucks out of my skirts, and I burst out where there were no tucks.

Aunt Mercy took the tucks out of my skirts, and I burst out where there were no tucks.