30 Verbs to Use for the Word braid

Perhaps I half dreamed it in some fugitive moment of half sleep; but it was as if I were again an awkward, silent boy, worshipping a girl new to the school, a girl who wore two long yellow braids.

"Of course you know, darlings, I would never leave Beulah save for the coldest months; or only to earn a little money," said Mrs. Carey, smoothing her dress, flattening her collar, and pinning up the braids that Nancy's hugs had loosened.

Owl Bear cut off the chiefs braids close to his head, and then the Snake cut off the Piegan's braids.

Why do you tie the braids with strings?"

I'll be home before a short-haired girl can twist her braids.

"It would be no hard thing to love such a man as he, methinks," she said to herself as she went on leisurely weaving the thick braids of her hair, and humming a song just low enough for Willan to half hear and half lose the words.

On the all-important morning, grandma was anxious that I should look well; and after she had looped my braids with bows of blue ribbon and fastened my dress, she brought forth my dainty bonnet, her own gift.

she asked, lifting off the heavy braid that lay across Phebe's bosom like a great rope of loosely twisted silk.

"Let me loosen your braids for you, Del," said she, quietly, taking up my hair in her gentle way, which always had a good effect on my prancing nerves; "let me bathe your forehead with this, dear;now, let me tell you something you will like.

It leaped a tangled braid through the air and as it struck burst asunder, and the stones scattered and rattled along the floor and rolled far out on the carpet.

" Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.

He will like better the plain braids of my hair with the curls falling over them."

We miss the smooth braids of hair which set off the expanse of forehead, and the coils of plaits of hair, which ornamented, but did not conceal the back of the head.

" As she spoke, Di pushed up her black braids, thumped the pillow of the couch where she was lying, and with eager eyes went down the last page of her book.

The radiant clasp of diamonds securing the braid of pearls which twined the dark glossy hair, glittered with unusual brilliancy on that noble yet haughty brow, and heightened the dazzling beauty of her countenance.

Nera withdrew them to smooth the braids of her glossy hair.

It nerves my heart, it steels my sword; For I have sworn this braid to stain In the best blood that warms thy vein.

It had taken two big braids to hold it; most girls could get their hair in one braid.

Flora, who was intent upon having things seem a little like a wedding, made a garland of orange-buds for her sister's hair, and threw over her braids a white gauze scarf.

" His mother, who had now finished winding her braid very neatly around her head, sank into a chair.

"I wonder what James would think," passed through her head; for Mary had never changed a ribbon, or altered the braid of her hair, or pinned a flower in her bosom, that she had not quickly seen the effect of the change mirrored in those dark eyes.

Through that service I worshipped her golden braids and the pink roses on her leghorn hat.

She was tall, and strongly, beautifully built; around her small head was bound a smooth braid of dark hair.

Idly they talked of waltz and quadrille, Idly they laughed, like other girls, Who over the fire, when all is still, Comb out their braids and curls.

Unlike the higher officers, he does not have to dress "smart," and he is very apt to discard his uniform and go clothed like a civilian teamster, excepting on special occasions when necessity demands braid and buttons.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  braid