31 Verbs to Use for the Word neckties

He wore a white necktie, a black dress-coat, buttoned up, but not so much so that it hid a figured dark-blue and white waistcoat.

"Honest, Racey, don't you ever get tired of yell-bellerin' thisaway?" Racey Dawson, standing in front of the mirror, ceased not to adjust his necktie.

"I hope, dear Uncle," said she, mischievously, "that when poor Aunt Jane is gone you'll be able to buy a new necktie.

It was so maternal that he expected at any moment she might brush his hair, straighten his necktie, and beg him not to sit up too late, but his instinct told him it was the only tone he was ever likely to hear from her, and so he said reluctantly, "Very well; I confess that I really rely on your judgment, and I will decline the invitation.

All the freshmen would don neckties showing the college colors, and the sophomores, and perhaps the juniors, would do their best to get the neckties away from them.

We'll all sew our neckties fast!" For a moment there was silence, and then, as the others caught the idea, they commenced to laugh.

I found a beautiful new maroon necktie, and it was only a dollarsame kind they would charge one seventy-five for in the big cities.

Have you ever reflected how miserable you would be and what a task living would be if you had to learn to write anew every morning when you go to class; or if you had to relearn how to tie your necktie every day?

And he gave a slight cough, and began to arrange his necktie with a disgracefully consequential air, though he was trying very hard not to look conceited; and while he was endeavouring to appear easy and gracefully careless, he began accidentally to hum, "See the Conquering Hero Comes," which was not the right tune under the circumstances.

You gave me neckties, which I wouldn't wear.

Jack held three new neckties to the light, trying to choose the one he would wear.

The latter, always fastidious, wore a blue-striped vest, without a coat to obscure it, and about his throat was knotted a flaming vermilion necktie, fastened in place with a diamond stickpinobviously the spoil of some recent robbery.

"Some folks," he would say, "likes pretty neckties; an' some wears fancy socks; but fer my part I'd ruther show a han'some foot ner anything.

"IerI don't mean neckties," stammered the German-American student, "I mean steamboats.

She had never admired them half so much before, but they seemed now to need a red necktie to set them off; and so the gorgeous result of Dick's fishing and trading came out of its hiding-place, and was arranged on the white coverlet of her own bed, with the rest of his best garments.

His left-hand neighbor, a boy who affected very red neckties, and who had hitherto displayed no interest in his presence, now turned and asked if he knew Blair.

Patsy marvelled that he could get such a handsome outfit for the money, for Uncle John had on new linen and a new hat and even a red-bordered handkerchief for the coat pocketbesides the necktie, and the necktie was of fine silk and in the latest fashion.

All the boys could do was to wrestle and throw each other, and either try to pull the neckties away or hold on to them.

"But then there's Sarah on the other hand who can't forgive me for not putting on a red necktie and going Bolshevik.

"What?" exclaimed Britt, turning upon Saunders so abruptly that the little man jumped, and immediately began to readjust his necktie.

Just as a man may have money without "flashing" it, or an extensive wardrobe without sporting gaudy neckties or wearing a dress suit in the morning, so may he possess linguistic resources without making a caddish exhibition of them.

He rallied promptly, stuffing his necktie into his waistcoat; he even laughed a little.

"Humbug!" growled the secretly terrified invalid, and in an excess of bravado took his black silk necktie from where it hung on the bedpost and tied it in a bow-knot around the collar of his pink-striped nightshirt, so that he would be in proper shape to receive any of the sisters.

And if you buy a ten dollar suit of clothes the dealer ought to throw in the necktie to bind the bargain.

And what ever possessed him to shoot off the Toad Pome to the Maestro?" Ken put the candle on the bureau and undid his necktie.

31 Verbs to Use for the Word  neckties