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His flannel suit was of the lightest of grays; he wore white tennis shoes and a red tie, and it was plain, as he cheerfully bade them good morning, that he was wholly unaware of the enormity of his costume. [9]
Though she came upon the count in his dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to excuse his costume. [2]
We did not try their costume. [5]
It was at this time that Anne Brinsmade took the notion of having a ball in costume. [9]
Yet dressed in this fantastic garb, these people laughed at my costume. [5]
The drive through the town and out to the Galle Face by the seashore, what a dream it was of tropical splendors of bloom and blossom, and Oriental conflagrations of costume! [5]
His personality pervaded the characters and times which he portrayed, so that there was a discord between the actor and his costume. [6]
Or is it that the explosion would derange her costume? [6]
It was a sufficiently ugly costume. [5]
Nothing could be soberer than the cut of the dresses which the propriety of the severe household had established as the rule of her costume. [6]

Short sentences using costume

Date of costume about 1848. [5]

Sentences containing costume two or more times

The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
The romancers always dress up the chamois-hunter in a fanciful and picturesque costume, whereas the best way to hunt this game is to do it without any costume at all. [5]

More example sentences with the word costume in them

Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in a balcony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night-gown and her ruffled nightcap. [5]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
Much as the Widow was pleased with the costume belonging to her condition, she did not disguise from herself that under certain circumstances she might be willing to change her name again. [6]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
The table d'ho^te was served by waitresses dressed in the quaint and comely costume of the Swiss peasants. [5]
Her own costume was picturesque, but it might appear unusual in London society. [11]
Mr. Hopper's eye was on him, and had taken in the details of his costume before realizing the import of his presence. [9]
The transformation, indeed, was more remarkable than he could have believed possible, for respectability itself would seem to have been regained by a costume, and the abundance of her remarkable hair was now repressed. [9]
This car, which was decorated with crocodiles, sheaves, dates, grapes, and shells, was hailed with shouts of enthusiasm; it was escorted by old men in the costume of the heathen priesthood. [10]
This neglige costume was adhered to even in the ballroom. [4]
It wanted but two minutes to twelve when Hume came from his house, dressed also in the white blanket costume, and followed by his dog, Bouche. [11]
She rose quickly to her feet, went to her wardrobe, and took out her Indian costume and blanket, with which she could never be induced to part. [11]
An hour after this I was marching, with two other men and Gabord, to the Convent of the Ursulines, dressed in the ordinary costume of a French soldier, got from the wife of Jean Labrouk. [11]
There is no thing of beauty that does not conform to a law of order and beauty--poem, story, costume, picture, statue, all fall into an ascertainable law of art. [4]
I went straight there in my civilian costume, named my name, said I was a lieutenant in the army, and told my story and asked for help. [5]
The door of the tablinum flew open, and through it streamed the Parthian ambassadors, seven stately personages, wearing the gorgeous costume of their country, and followed by an interpreter and several scribes. [10]
Her costume for the prospective excursion in the automobile had cost Honora some thought that morning. [9]
To our eyes the legitimate drama of to-day is the one in which the day is reflected, both in costume and speech, and which touches the affections, the passions, the humor, of the present time. [4]
He laughed at the homespun I wore about the farm, saying it was no costume for a gentleman's son, and begged me sneeringly to don leather breeches. [9]
Sonya's costume was the best of all. [2]
And Natasha felt that this costume, the very one she had regarded with surprise and amusement at Otradnoe, was just the right thing and not at all worse than a swallow-tail or frock coat. [2]
I meant to tell my thoughts, and to throw in a few studies of manner and costume as they pictured themselves for me from day to day. [6]
She had her special costume for the boat and for the woods. [6]
We knew where she worshiped; we knew the houses she frequented, the charities she patronized, the fetes she adorned, every new costume that her wearing made the fashion. [4]
But now, as she clung to his arm, the rider's costume she wore did not contradict, as it had done at first, his feeling of her femininity. [13]
At half past seven o'clock, the Colonel, in costume, came into the front parlor, and proceeded to light the lamps. [6]
His face was round, red, and very serious; his throat was bare and his hair tumbled; in general appearance and costume he was a stalwart miner of the period. [5]
Father Clement will remain safely concealed at my sister's, and you will accompany me in priestly costume. [10]
At last we reached the square, which was now packed with citizens, and there, high on the pedestal of the great cross, we saw the herald in his brilliant costume, with his servitors about him. [5]
After Adrian had put on the new costume, the Emperor shook off the large, warm boot, and held out his gouty foot to the valet. [10]
It was Al'mah's portrait in the costume she had worn over three years ago, the night when Rudyard Byng had rescued her from the flames. [11]
This company of pilgrims resembled Chaucer's in this: that it had in it a sample of about all the upper occupations and professions the country could show, and a corresponding variety of costume. [5]
This costume is picturesque, but not beautiful. [5]
At first sight, Pfuel, in his ill-made uniform of a Russian general, which fitted him badly like a fancy costume, seemed familiar to Prince Andrew, though he saw him now for the first time. [2]
Mr. Stoker had parted his hair wonderfully that morning, and made himself as captivating as his professional costume allowed. [6]
Hannah, too, was outraged by Lise's costume, and had also been moved to protest; futile protest. [9]
When he put on the dog-skin fur cap and a small muffler round his neck, it was the costume of the habitant complete. [11]
It is composed of young ladies who dress in a uniform costume, and go through the infantry drill, with broom in place of musket. [5]
The mutual taking-in of the pretty street costume and the pretty morning toilet was the work of a moment--the photographer has invented no machine that equals a woman's eyes for such a purpose. [4]
His costume was of the oddest: a long-waisted coat reaching nearly to his heels, short trousers, a flowered silk vest, and a napless hat. [4]
True, the colours of the costume were becoming. [10]
The whole relief of the costume was white: white sash, white cuffs turned back, white collar, white rosette and band, white and red bandeau, and the faint glitter of a white shirt. [11]
It had been of no use to change the costume. [6]
I know that of all the patronesses of the charity ball her costume was the most exquisite, and her liberality was most spoken of. [4]
Having three definite objects has had the effect of seeming to enlarge my domain and give me the freedom of a loose costume. [5]
No clerical costume, no ceremonial forms, no carefully trained choirs. [6]
Saint Eloi is named after the good bishop who ventured to advise King Dagobert about his costume. [9]
How big they must look, and how little they must make the houses look; and when the elephants are in their glittering court costume, what a contrast they must make with the humble and sordid surroundings. [5]
The fickleness of men in costume in a manner burlesques their shifty and uncertain taste in literature. [4]
The company present made a fine show, an exhibition of human fireworks, so to speak, in the matters of costume and comminglings of brilliant color. [5]
There, at a long table, surrounded by powdered lackeys, sat a bevy of wits, mostly in blue and silver, with point ruffles, to match Mr. Fox's costume. [9]
Then, with a little dainty malice: "It is more interesting, though, in the vernacular--and costume! [11]
I suspect we learn from our dressmakers to shift the costume of our minds, and slip on the new fashions of thinking all the more easily because we have been accustomed to new styles of dressing every season. [6]
A few days later she saw a picture of Mr. Brent, in polo costume, in one of the magazines. [9]
Both she and Lambert decided that she was very fine-looking, not withstanding her costume. [11]
For the four-horse Kremser chariots there was even a driver in jockey costume, who rode the saddle-horse. [10]
The man's portrait is there, and his costume, and fragmentary anecdotes of his life; but where is the man's nature--soul and self? [14]
But it came into her imagination and vivifying consciousness with the putting on of her unwonted costume, and might well leave her when she put it off. [6]
Madame Chalice approved instantly, for though the costume was, in itself, an affectation, previous to the time by a generation, it was in the picture, was sedately refined. [11]
Who can join in the heartless libel that says woman is extravagant in dress when he can look back and call to mind our simple and lowly mother Eve arrayed in her modification of the Highland costume? [5]
An elderly man in the costume of a merchant was just holding out his hand in farewell, and he heard him say: "You've bought too cheap again, far too cheap, Jungfer Ruth. [10]
She therefore persisted in sending messengers to those lands where, to judge by the costume of the people, the appearance of the country and buildings, as shown in the magic mirror, George was most likely to be found. [10]
She took pleasure in putting on the plainest costume she could find, rejecting every ornament, everything but the necessary and the simple. [4]
Calhoun was dressed in planter's costume, and the governor was in an officer's uniform. [11]
But Dolokhov, who in Moscow had worn a Persian costume, had now the appearance of a most correct officer of the Guards. [2]
The Archbishop was in grand costume, with his miter on his head and his cross in his hand. [5]
He was dressed in a checked golf costume, and wore a pink shirt of a new pattern. [9]
So used had I grown to seeing her in the simple linen dresses she had worn in the country, a costume associated with exclusive possession, that the sight of her travelling suit and hat renewed in me an agony of apprehension. [9]
In her simple house costume she was the woman, homelike, sympathetic, gentle, with the everlasting appeal of the strong feminine nature. [4]
The youth shrugged his shoulders, but Adrian cried: "Because you like your Spanish costume better than our doublets of Leyden cloth. [10]
The painter seized his pad and pencil and with a few strokes, guided by inspiration, sketched the costume then and there and held it up to Jethro, who blinked at it in astonishment. [9]
Wolf still wore his court costume, and the short dress sword which belonged to it hung in its sheath. [10]
She had persuaded herself that she was playing the part of a Protestant sister of charity, and that the fact of her not wearing the costume of these ministering angels made no difference in her relations to those who needed her aid. [6]
Mrs. Holt with her curls, and her glasses laid flat on the bosom of her dove-coloured dress; Honora in a costume dedicated to the very latest of the sports, and Trixton Brent in English tweeds. [9]
Toward eleven o'clock he approached the palace; and although a host of showy people were about him, moving in the same direction, he was not inconspicuous--his costume took care of that. [5]
Not that she had been shabby when he had wished to marry her at noon: no self-respecting woman is ever shabby; not that her present costume had any of the elements of overdress; far from it. [9]
It would aid greatly in the matter of costume, and you might use my library--I have a fair number of histories. [11]
Evidently a second glance brought to her a realization of his clerical costume. [9]
Some of these gentlemen wore the costume of coureurs du bois, others had odd regimental coats and hats which had seen much service. [9]
It was a gentleman of tall stature, whose aristocratic figure and Spanish court costume were partially covered by a long cloak. [10]
The heavy, expensive furniture was of a pattern new to me; and on the mantel were three or four photographs of ladies in the alluring costume of the musical stage, in which Tom evinced a particular interest. [9]
She had come from old Prince Puckler, who, as he never visited the theatre in the city, wished to see her in the costume whose beauty had been so much praised. [10]
There were a few heirlooms of old date, however, which she had kept as curiosities until now, and which she looked over until she found some lace and other convertible material, with which she enlivened her costume a little for the evening. [6]
Beside him, his eyes also upon the sunset and the village, was a man in a costume half-trapper, half-Indian, with bushy grey beard and massive frame, and a distant, sorrowful look, like that of one whose soul was tuned to past suffering. [11]
And Jack--don't you ever dare, while you live, appear in public on those decks in fair weather, in a costume unbecoming your mother's drawing-room! [5]
Mr. Gridley in evening costume made an eminently dignified and respectable appearance. [6]
Her modest and engaging manner accorded well with the unpretending simplicity of her costume and caused her to be regarded with absorbing interest by every one. [5]
Self-revelation of beauty embellished by ornaments is the privilege of full dress; self-revelation in the florid costume of verse is the divine right of the poet. [6]
Now I don't doubt that this odd costume you talk about is the fashion in that district of heaven you belong to, but you won't be conspicuous in this section without it. [5]
If your memory does not fail you, however, and you retain a little honesty of mind, you can recall the fact that a costume which seems to you ridiculous today had your warm approval ten years ago. [4]
The splendid costume did not suit such a meeting after a long separation, so solemn a festal hour of the heart. [10]
This time he did not appear in the dark Spanish court costume, but in the brilliant armour of the Lombard regiment whose command had been entrusted to him. [10]
To-day the superb costume was as hateful to him as the office, which gave him the right to wear it, and which, until a few weeks ago, he had occupied with a joyous sense of confidence in himself. [10]
It was the costume I wore at Chantilly, and Monsieur le Prince complimented me, and the next day the painter himself came to our hotel in the Rue de Bretagne and asked the honor of painting me. [9]
In this gorgeous costume he attended the funeral. [5]
We have to contrive, therefore, another basis for a class (to use an un-American expression), in a sort of culture or training, which can be perpetual, and which cannot be ordered for money, like a ball costume or a livery. [4]
They wished to consult Mrs. Falchion in certain matters of costume and decoration, for which, it had been discovered, she had a peculiar faculty. [11]
Her hair, the colour of the yellowest of gold, in the manner of its finish seemed somehow to give the impression of that metal; and the militant effect of the costume had been heightened by a small colonial cocked hat. [9]
In this higher civilization a costume which is artistic and becoming has no more chance of permanence than one which is ugly and inconvenient. [4]
The next day certain young sparks would drop into my room to waylay the belles as they came to pick a costume to be worn at Mr. Nickle's dancing school, or at the ball at Fort Finney. [9]

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