73 examples of velveteens in sentences

| | | | CLOTHS, CLOAKINGS, | | VELVETEENS, | | CLOAK SILK VELVETS, | | MILLINERY VELVETS, &

He smokes cascarilla, wears velveteen, and is as punctual as an executioner.

| | | ++ | | | VELVETS, PLUSHES, | | Velveteens, Etc. | | | | A. T. STEWART & CO.

'There againdon't you see something move under that marl bank?' Tregarva watched a moment, and then ran up to the spot, and throwing himself on his face on the edge, leant over, grappled somethingand was instantly, to Lancelot's astonishment, grappled in his turn by a rough, lank, white dog, whose teeth, however, could not get through the velveteen sleeve.

His coat was of green velveteen corduroy and he wore knickerbockers of an eloquent plaid.

On the following morning, he brought around two horses, one of which had a woman's saddle with a velveteen back to it, while on the crupper of the other was a rolled shawl that was to be used for a seat.

Kathleen's last year's brown velveteen disclosed bronze slippers and stockings,a novelty in Beulah,her hair fell in such curls as Beulah had rarely beheld, and her voice was as sweet as a thrush's note; so perhaps it is not strange that the poem set a kind of fashion at the academy, and "following the gleam" became a sort of text by which to study and grow and live.

| | | | Have made very large additions to their stock of | | | | CLOAK VELVETS, VELVETEENS, PLUSHES, ASTRAKHANS, MILLINERY | | and TRIMMING VELVETS, Etc.

On their heads were reversible "pancake" hats made of straw, covered on the wet-weather side with coarse woolen stuff and on the fair-weather side with tinsel and velveteen.

He was evidently prepared for a day's shooting, in velveteen jacket and leather gaiters, and stood feeling about in his pockets to see whether he had forgotten any of his tackle, and muttering to himself amid his whistling,"Capital day.

But you wait until I get my complet de velourswhich is to say my velveteens.

He was a magnificently handsome young fellow of two or three and twenty, dressed in loose brown velveteens, with a belted jacket and a spotless shirt, strong, well-made shoes, leathern gaiters, and a flat cap, and he carried the traditional hatchet of the southern shepherd.

He wore a fur cap, a velveteen jacket, and a bright-red neckcloth, secured by an enormous ring; nor was this remarkable costume out of character with the perfume he exhaled, denoting he had consumed at least his share of that other half-quartern which postponed his departure.

Like all boys of his class, his usual dress was a brown velveteen jacket and waistcoat and corduroy trousers that had once been white.

"Drive me up the road and round Havelock Crescent, and see if we can find a gentleman running about in a velveteen coat and no hat.

" "Velveteen coat, ma'am, and no 'at.

" On warm days Mrs. Flint would drag these two daughters of hers into the office, dressed in plaid suits and velveteen hats; and when a cold north wind blew it seemed inevitable that they would appear in gay and airy costumes up to their knees, with impossible straw bonnets trimmed with daisies and faded cornflowers, reminiscent of the white-leghorn-hat era.

She wore a black velveteen dress, although it was very hot weather, and I called her "Hamlet."

The girls at the theater told me that she was very poor, and that underneath her black velveteen dress, which she wore summer and winter, she had nothing but a pair of stockings and a chemise.

Rash had followed him, his nose against his velveteens, in entreaty to go with him; I was pleased at this sign of amity between them.

The outer seam of the right leg of his velveteen breeches was gone, and a brown leg was winking in and out from the flapping garment as he walked.

The variety of foulards, of gauzes, of alpacas, of camlets, of poplins, poplinettes, and Japanese silks, and even of silks themselves, which vary from three shillings to eight and nine shillings the yard, of satins, of velvets, and velveteens, have brought dress within the scope of moderate incomes.

For winter, there are droguets, reps in worsted and in silk, merinos, tweeds, linseys, and velveteens.

Velveteens have a very good effectbetter than most materials; and when they are braided well, they are very effective.

Next day, at dusk, there arrived at the Dun Cow an elderly man with a large carpet-bag and a strapped bundle of patternstweed, kersey, velveteen, and corduroys.

73 examples of  velveteens  in sentences