Which preposition to use with scarves
Her Indo-Punjabi dress, the loose many-folded trousers, the white bodice and the silver-bordered scarf of rose pinkbut added to her charm.
And presently came Giles o' the Bow, debonair and smiling, a woman's scarf about his brawny throat, a dozen ribands and favours tied about each mailed arm.
I was so cold that I tied a woollen scarf around my head, just as the women in Canada do when they go sleighing or skating.
And first before the King he passed, with reverence stooping low, And next he bowed him to the Queen, and the Infantas all a-row; Then to his lady's grace he turned, and she to him did throw A scarf from out her balcony was whiter than the snow.
" She had thrown the scarf on a chair on entering.
He was slightly heavy, so that his hands dimpled at the knuckle, and above the soft collar, joined beneath the scarf with a goldbar pin, his chin threatened but did not repeat itself.
Here passes an old Coolie Hindoo, with nothing on but his lungee round his loins, and a scarf over his head; a white- bearded, delicate-featured old gentleman, with probably some caste- mark of red paint on his forehead; his thin limbs, and small hands and feet, contrasting strangely with the brawny Negroes round.
After a pause, and an adjustment of a curl over her right eye and the scarf at her waist, to make them look innocent, she yields to the meteorological mania so strikingly prevalent amongst all the other characters of this narrative, and says that she will receive the visitor in the yard, near the pump.
The members of the Committee, each with a tricolor scarf across his breast, have taken their places on the platform.
Hoffman stood so near that her dress touched him, and the wind blew her scarf against his hand; and as she thought he watched her while his eyes kindled, his color rose, and once he opened his lips to speak, but she moved at the instant, and exclaimed, "I have it!" "Now for it," he muttered, as if preparing for some new surprise or attack.
I'm in a hurry about that scarf for mamma.
"Her scarf into a fluttering pavilion.
Helen turned pale, and with a reproachful glance skilfully bound it up again, saying, as she handed a silken scarf to Wilhelm, "Make of that a sling, please, and put the poor hand in it.
The veins stood out on his forehead and a kind of gurgle came from behind the scarf round his mouth.
According to a note on the plate, the veil is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that it seems to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil.
" They used violence towards him, they girded him with a scarf like a cord round his neck, and, as they had said, they dragged him towards the Hall, begging for his "liberty," moaning, kickingI would say wrestling, if the word were not too exalted.
My last glimpse of him was of a grin spreading under the scarf toward his ears.
One of them was adjusting a lace scarf above her hair.