29 Verbs to Use for the Word wrappers
Invariably the drosky is lined with dark-blue cloth, and the drosky-driver wears a dark-blue wrapper, coming to the feet, girded around the waist by a crimson sash.
He tore off the wrappers of the magazines as a means of some sort of physical occupation and rolled them into balls, which he cast at the waste-basket; but neither the contents of the magazines nor those of the newspapers seemed to interest him.
He took the proffered wrapper; lay down; and seemed to sleep.
" After a long, absent-minded look over the meadows towards the sea, where the waves were darkening in the twilight, he arose in haste, threw off his wrapper, a gray merino affair, trimmed with quilted crimson silk, that Prudence had given him on a birthday three years ago, and went to the wash-stand to bathe his face and brush back that mass of black hair.
He is now talking to the young man writing the mail-wrappers, who, being of iron constitution and unmarried, can bear more than I. There was just time for me to glide out of the window at sound of that fearful voice, and I climbed the iron shutter and found myself at your casement.
Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, For the Summer-time is coming, And the sun is warm in heaven, And you need no white-skin wrapper!"
Alarmed by the unusual noise, and fancying the young gentlemen might be robbing the house as a farewell performance, she had donned a calico wrapper, and tying a black silk handkerchief over her cap, had taken her scissors, the only weapon of defense she could find, and thus equipped for battle she had sallied forth.
He could hear people running, and when a large woman, draping her wrapper about her, floundered out of a basement door near him, he followed her.
"Gilbert is far too young for the responsibilities you put upon him, Margaret," Cousin Ann exclaimed, drawing her wrapper more closely over her tall spare figure; "and if he was as old as Methuselah he would still be careless, for he was born so!
As he was about to drop this wrapper into the waste basket his eye caught sight of a water mark; the letters were "C.A. Marmion, N.Y., U.S.A." Thinking that this might prove important, he preserved it for future reference.
Mrs. Van Wyck went up to Li Wan and made signs that she would exchange her wrapper for the jacket.
Across the foot of his couch lay folded an invalid's red hospital wrapper; beside his bed stood the slippers.
Susan got a pink wrapper and got a pink china cup for his tea.
Far back, behind the rampart formed by the notes, the doctor had hidden the blue paper wrappers.
When Clotilde had arranged the wrappers and the waists upon a shelf, she perceived a large envelope containing the fragments of the documents which she had placed there after she had rescued them from the fire.
But the tapes were sewed on the little waists, she had even marked some new wrappers, which she had bought the day before.
Try to turn your thoughts away from your more important affairs long enough to notice the pretty morning-wrapper or the well-fitting evening-dress which has cost her some thought for your sake; do not let a change in the furniture or a new ornament in the parlor go unnoticed till the bill comes in.
"O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell!
" Susan picked up the pink wrapper and Bunny picked up the pink cup and saucer.
Let a teacher propose to his pupils, formally, from his desk, the plan of writing propositions, for example, as explained above, and procure his wrapper, and put it in its place, and what would be the result?
"How was I to guess that some one was tryin' to pisen Miss Marvin?" Ben Tyler took the box carefully and replaced the wrapper; then, telling Sam to follow, he went straight to Mr. Denton's office.
He surveyed my gray Inverness wrapper and gave me a chuckling nod of approbation.
In the first place ******* and then it sends you home with such increased appetite to your books ***** not to say, that your outside sheets, and waste wrappers of foolscap, do receive into them, most kindly and naturally, the impression of sonnets, epigrams, essaysso that the very parings of a counting-house are, in some sort, the settings up of an author.
It is a precaution of the censorship, childish and laughable, for what is easier than to imitate official wrappers?
"I borrowed an old wrapper of nurse's that will cheat their eyes till we shall be far beyond their ken.