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Sentences starting with dress

Dress me for the day. [10]
Dress parade was one long sigh of delight: Better not to have been born than to have been a young man in St. Louis, early in Camp Jackson week, and not be a militiaman. [9]
Dress Circle One Dollar; Children and Servants half price. [5]
Dress is a dangerous topic to meddle with. [4]
Dress your ranks! [2]
Dress reform! [4]

Sentences ending with dress

I don't see why dancing isn't just as good an accomplishment as playing the harp in a Greek dress. [4]
She wore a white lawn dress. [9]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
Then with her usual dignity she pointed to a seat and said: "Be seated while I dress. [10]
They are very uncleanly--these people--in face, in person and dress. [5]
It is yet uncertain--a sort of Boulangerism in dress. [4]
Heliodora had gone to consult the sorceress in a simple but rich dress. [10]
I've only just time to dress. [9]
There is yet time to dress. [11]
He was a thin, rather handsome, dissolute-looking fellow of middle height and about forty, in dandified dress. [11]

Short sentences using dress

The dress was too long. [2]
There lay Dada's embroidered dress. [10]
Tom began to dress early. [9]
Speaking of dress. [5]
Dress? [5]

Sentences containing dress two or more times

His dress answered to his face--if indeed that could be called dress which consisted of a linen apron and a white kerchief thrown over his shoulders after sundown. [10]
Then she arranged the folds of her sister's dress, fastened on the ornaments, and proceeded to dress herself. [10]
In Marseilles you pay forty dollars for a first-class dress coat made by a good tailor, but in Leghorn you can get a full dress suit for the same money. [5]
On both these occasions everybody is expected to be in court dress, but my host told me I might present myself in ordinary evening dress. [6]
She must have a new dress of course for the sake of appearance, but really her beauty did not suffer from the washed-out rag of a dress. [10]
She was wearing a dark-blue house dress in which Prince Andrew thought her even prettier than in her ball dress. [2]

More example sentences with the word dress in them

Do you think, Zoe, that with that I could wear the dress of transparent bombyx silk that came yesterday from Cos? [10]
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. [5]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
Suddenly a tall young man in a white dress with a beautiful sky-blue border appeared through the great gate. [10]
Do you think you ought to dress her that way? [9]
I don't believe you know a silk dress from a bombazine one. [6]
What now would you charge for a dress for her? [10]
These were the words I was maundering with this noble voice of mine: "'The news I bring, fair Lady, Will make your tears run down Put off your rose-red dress so fine And doff your satin gown! [11]
Joan had resumed woman's dress without protest; also she had been formally warned against relapsing. [5]
Might get along without the equerry and the page, but can't have any wine or cigars without the butler, and can't dress without my valet. [5]
And then--she awoke with the light shining in her face, and barely had time to dress before the conductor was calling out "Jersey City. [9]
Miss R. P., with that repugnance to ostentation in dress which is so peculiar to her, was attired in a simple white lace collar, fastened with a neat pearl-button solitaire. [5]
We astonished them with such eccentricities of dress as we could muster. [5]
And then Virginia, with a little curtsey to both of them, ran off to dress for the party. [9]
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. [6]
All but Jack, who changed all other articles of his dress, but clung to his traveling pantaloons. [5]
Her dress was white embroidered muslin, with a lace mantle, and white bonnet trimmed with green leaves, which perhaps might suggest the resemblance to the pale wintry flower. [14]
There were times when I was careless--careless in my dress when I got older. [5]
One of the wheels caught her dress and dragged her down. [10]
Some of them were murderously spelled; others were missives in such elegant phrase and dress, that danger was only to be apprehended in them by one skilled in the mysteries of medieval poisoning, when death flew on the wings of a perfume. [4]
Then the blinds were flung aside, and a young lady in a dress of white trimmed with crimson stood in the window, smiling. [9]
Sighing heavily, she went at last, in a street dress, to open the bow-window which looked upon Red Cock Street. [10]
I used to wear this dress at Pratt's, with white collars and cuffs and--well, I just put it on again. [9]
Now she might wear none but white dresses and the least scrap of colored ornament to dress her hair or smarten her robe was strictly forbidden. [10]
She used to wear a red dress, I remember, and her hair was brown. [11]
Full dress, as we call it, is so full of beauty that it cannot hold it all, and the redundancy of nature overflows the narrowed margin of satin or velvet. [6]
Ill as she was, I could have laughed, for, as we went in the Earl's carriage to the hospital-thirty miles it was--she said she felt at home with me, my dress being so like a nun's. [11]
Half an hour was spent over Joan's apparitions--their dress, hair, general appearance, and so on--in the hope of fishing something of a damaging sort out of the replies; but with no result. [5]
His glorious figure was set off to advantage by his rich dress, his features were bright with happiness and a feeling of conscious strength. [10]
Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church. [2]
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning. [6]
Barbara perceived what was passing in his thoughts, and also noticed how her dress had become disarranged during her work. [10]
Her scant hair was now pure white, her dress seemed to have fallen away from her wasted neck, which was like a trefoil column. [9]
And then she was never more winning; perhaps her beauty had taken on a more refined quality from her illness abroad; perhaps it was that indefinable knowledge of the world, which is recognized as well in dress as in manner, which increased her attractiveness. [4]
She said it was necessary for her to dress as a man. [5]
The magnificent star was missing; in its place she wore at the square-cut neck of her dress two beautiful halfblown roses, and her mirror had showed her how becoming they were. [10]
When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
In dress he was always neat; he was quick to lend a hand to a being in distress, brute or human; was overflowing with good humor, and was the idol of all his acquaintances. [4]
Their best time was about sunrise; but, before one could dress and get to the front, they would retire. [4]
Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
Barring Eliphalet, there was a dress parade that evening,--silks and bombazines and broadcloths, and Miss Crane's special preserves on the tea-table. [9]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
Syloson was a very handsome man too, and so remarkable for the good taste and splendor of his dress, that the youth of Naukratis prided themselves on imitating the cut and hang of his robes. [10]
He did not usually give much heed to his dress, yet he was glad that the rain kept people in the house, for the outgrown wrap on his shoulders was by no means pleasing in appearance. [10]
I was looking upon a god, an actual god, a recognized and accepted god; and every detail of his person and his dress had a consuming interest for me. [5]
You have done up your hair in this new way for the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent. [2]
The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way. [2]
He could not understand where she got her style, her way of dress, her enunciation, her easy manners. [6]
And Janet, lingering unconsciously in front of that very emporium where Lisehad been incarcerated, the Bagatelle, stared at the finery displayed there, at the blue tulle dress that might be purchased, she read, for $22.99. [9]
Her dress was trimmed with what we simply mistook for scalps, and supposed it was in honor of the nation; but we blushed at our ignorance on discovering that it was a gorgeous trimming of marten tips. [4]
Her dress was torn and blood-stained, her grey hair had come loose from the ribbands and crescent that should have confined it; the worthy matron had become a Megaera and shrieked to the men: "Kill the dogs! [10]
But he soon took his cue, the diamonds disappeared, and the dress was toned down. [4]
They are useful, too, in keeping up the standard of dress, which, but for them, would deteriorate, and become, what some old fools would have it, a matter of convenience, and not of taste and art. [6]
At this season, too, all her peculiar tastes in dress and ornament came out in a more striking way than at other times. [6]
It is far too late in this history to pretend that Honora was, by preference, an early riser, and therefore it must have been the excitement caused by her surroundings that made her bathe and dress with alacrity that morning. [9]
Myrtle knew how to use her needle, and always had a dexterous way of shaping any article of dress or ornament,--a natural gift not very rare, but sometimes very needful, as it was now. [6]
Women are forbidden to turn their minds to such studies.--Now your dress is complete. [10]
Our elders used to threaten to dress us in leather and put sheet-iron seats in our trousers. [4]
Katie," she said to the maid, "bring the princess her gray dress, and you'll see, Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it," she added, smiling with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. [2]
This brought her to swift decision she hurried to her room, desired the maid not to dress her hair, contenting herself with pinning a few roses into its natural curls. [10]
Jokingly we got to speaking of it as my office; and amused ourselves with watching "my people" daily in their small grounds and trying to make out what we could of their dress, &c., without a glass. [5]
As she turned to go the little one ran after her crying; she took him in her arms and carried him back to his mother, and then went on to her own room to dress herself and her sister for the procession. [10]
And he continued to dress, or to be dressed, alternately swearing at his valet and talking to Fitzpatrick and to me. [9]
I'll teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... [2]
Usually she liked to dress slowly, thinking meanwhile of many things which stirred her soul. [10]
The cambric dress, to be sure, was still no longer than the tops of her ankles and the hair still hung in a heavy braid down her back. [9]
The man begged to be allowed to try the dress, ordered for Roxana by the prefect's wife, on the steward's daughter. [10]
I shall have time then to change my dress, but I will put my new sandals on at once as a precaution; nurse and the maid must wait for me in my room. [10]
From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile. [2]
One letter she thrust into her dress, but the other she laid aside, and her knees trembled under her as she rose and went into the entry and raised the latch and opened the door. [9]
Quijada, with a throbbing heart, obeyed, but Geronimo had no suspicion of what awaited him, and only wondered why his mother took so much trouble about his dress, since they were merely going hunting. [10]
My Lord took three-quarters of an hour to dress, and swore he had not accomplished the feat so quickly in a year. [9]
I might have thought it only a freak of my fancy, but there by the fireplace sat a stout, red-faced, puffy-looking man, in the ordinary dress of an English gentleman, whom I had no difficulty in recognizing as my uncle from India. [4]
She fled as though she were pursued, her long dress hampering her steps, along by the temple wall, till her gaze, fixed on her left, fell on the spot which had been designated to her. [10]
And she added this: "When one receives the sacrament, the manner of his dress is a small thing and of no value in the eyes of Our Lord. [5]
But I saw this very stepmother wash and dress little Elsie, her husband's youngest babe and not her own, and lull her till she fell asleep; and she did it right tenderly, and quite as she ought. [10]
What do you think, Titianus, she would still do for Roxana; only your wife must find a dress for her again. [10]
He must not think to divert us from our purpose by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weapons are not entirely perfect and uniform. [7]
She had her things unpacked, her room in order herself--she didn't want your help or mine--and herself with a fresh dress on before you could turn round. [11]
But the remarkable thing about it is that heretofore in all nations and times, and in all changes of fashion in dress, the rose has held its own as the queen of flowers and as the finest expression of sentiment. [4]
People stared as they walked along, for his dress was curious and his head was bare, and his hair like the coat of a young lion. [11]
At this instant, they heard the quick rustle of the countess' dress. [2]
Everybody went down there, and a shout went up when an actual, bona fide dress was discovered fluttering in the wind! [5]
Banks was already there to dress me, to congratulate me as discreetly as a well-trained servant should; nor did he remind me of the fact that he had offered to lend me money, for which omission I liked him the better. [9]
Handsome, lots of them, and dressed--oh, my friend, dress is still a part of it! [4]
For which of them is the dress first chosen on such occasions? [10]
They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition. [2]
They save all their dress parade for the concerts; and the hall of the Odeon is as brilliant as provincial taste can make it in toilet. [4]
He was now the well-modulated man of affairs, elegant in his simplicity of dress, with the dignified air of the intellectual, yet with the decision of a man who knew his mind. [11]
Shaking his head, the valet took these articles of dress from the chest; but before he put them on his master, the latter sat down to have his hair and beard carefully arranged. [10]
Isn't it like the topknot of some fine old parakeet from Pernambukoko--and oh, Father Rainbow, the maginta dress of her! [11]
She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]
I shall treat the Ten as a whole because they did not materially differ from one another in dress or habits or ambition or general usefulness on this earth. [9]
Assumed dress on the stage, since you were speaking of that, makes people no more constrained and self-conscious than it does off the stage. [4]
She rolled up the sleeves of her dress, she turned down its prim collar and neck, and glanced from her glass to the portrait, from the portrait back to the glass. [6]
At high noon the scene is very lively, and even picturesque, for the ladies here dress for bathing with an intention of pleasing. [4]
Every one knows the renovation of feeling--often mistaken for a moral renewal--when the worn dress of the day is exchanged for the fresh evening toilet. [4]

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