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Sentences starting with silk

Silk and satin from Paris are left behind. [9]

Sentences ending with silk

His fingers fumbled with his robe of striped silk. [11]
It was of the most delicate white boucassin, with fringes of silk. [5]
The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk. [11]
It was a splendid morning; not a cloud dimmed the sky which spread high above desert, mountain, and oasis, like an arched tent of uniform deep-blue silk. [10]
The merchant who, riding a dromedary of the choicest breed, conducted this caravan, was a lean Moslem of mature age, robed in soft silk. [10]
After the name of the son is written, "Dyer in cloth and silk. [4]
In order to keep out the noonday sun and produce a salutary half-light for the blind queen's eyes, her windows were shaded by curtains of green Indian silk. [10]
The thin, bent figure was attired in a long trailing robe of heavy pink silk. [10]
Some red Japanese bird-kites were stuck about in the necks of spelter vases, a crimson Jap umbrella hung opened beneath the chandelier, and each globe had a shade of yellow silk. [8]
Helios begged to be allowed to feel her dress, and after satisfying herself that his little hands were clean she stroked them over the glistening white silk. [10]

Sentences containing silk two or more times

This was why he could live without his wedded wife and her gold and her brocade, and the silk and the Persian rugs, and the grand piano and the carriages and the high silk hat from Piccadilly. [11]
Then Fanchon's arms drew up, and, with eyes all tenderly burning, she clasped the babe to her breast, and as silk breast touched silk cheek, there sprang up in her the delight and knowledge that the doom of the White Omen was not for herself. [11]

More example sentences with the word silk in them

Do you think, Zoe, that with that I could wear the dress of transparent bombyx silk that came yesterday from Cos? [10]
I don't believe you know a silk dress from a bombazine one. [6]
The miniature was wrapped now in a silk handkerchief which Polly Ann had bought for me in Lexington. [9]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
Her sunny drawing-room, with its gathered silk curtains, was especially beautiful; whatever the Leffingwells or Allisons may have lacked, it was not taste. [9]
It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: "To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
It had glass windows and a lion on a blue shield on the door, and within it was all salmon silk, save the painted design on the ceiling. [9]
Unless you are willing to tell me who this lady is for whom you are buying silk dresses, and what your relationship is to her, I shall leave you. [9]
He arrived alone, wearing the silk hat which had become habitual with him now, and stepping into his barouche at the station had been driven up Brampton Street behind his grays, looking neither to the right nor left. [9]
Alonzo Fitz Clarence was sitting in his snug and elegant little parlor, in a lovely blue silk dressing-gown, with cuffs and facings of crimson satin, elaborately quilted. [5]
A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear. [2]
The first prize was a most cunning half-grown silver bugle, and mighty pretty, with red silk cord and tassels. [5]
And she shall walk in silk attire, and siller have to spare, or may I never rise from this bed again! [12]
Fresh, immaculate, yet virile in his light suit and silk shirt with red stripes, he was seated at his desk engaged in turning over some papers in a drawer. [9]
There is nothing unusual in the fellow's dress; he wears a shiny silk hat, and has one of those grave faces which would be merry if their owner were not conscious of serious business on hand. [4]
Associated with this torture is a peculiar Sunday smell and the faint rustling of silk dresses. [9]
Miss Mela explained to the Marches: "Mother was raised among the Dunkards, and she thinks it's wicked to wear anything but a gray silk even for dress-up. [8]
She came striding to meet her new friends, attired in a rustling canary-green silk robe whose train swept the ground, but it was raised so high in front that the brown hunting-boots encasing her well-formed feet were distinctly visible. [10]
It is gratifying to me to reflect that we traveled in considerable style; we went in the Pioneer coach, and my friend took all his baggage with him, consisting of two excellent silk handkerchiefs and a daguerreotype of his grandmother. [5]
My feet were thrust into two pairs of heavy woollen stockings, and Dorothy bound her own silk kerchief at my throat, whispering anxious questions the while. [9]
The elderly man thought he had never seen her look so charming as in the yellow velvet doublet with ash-gray facings, the gray silk hose, and the yellow and gray cap resting on her glittering golden hair. [10]
Every one wears the straight, high-crowned silk hat that went out with us years ago, and the cut of clothing of even the most buckish young fellows is behind the times. [4]
I was in the simplest and comfortablest of gymnast costumes--flesh-colored tights from neck to heel, with blue silk puffings about my loins, and bareheaded. [5]
As he left the rose there, his eyes wandered slowly over this retreat of rest and sleep: white robe-de-nuit, blue silk canopy, blue slippers, blue dressing-gown--all blue, the colour in which he had first seen her. [11]
He stood beside the rack for the magazines and reviews, somewhat nervously fingering a heavy watch charm, his large silk hat bottom upward on the chair behind him. [9]
Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
The housings of the mule were of fine crimson cloth; the borders embroidered with gold; the reins and head-piece were of satin, curiously embossed with needlework of silk, and wrought with golden letters. [4]
Going over to the gracious and luxurious bed, with its blue silk canopy, he laid the white rose on her pillow. [11]
And last of the goodly procession came Miss Monflathers, bearing herself a parasol of lilac silk, and supported by two smiling teachers, each mortally envious of the other, and devoted unto Miss Monflathers. [12]
Below these are the gally-hose of silk, velvet, satin, and damask, reaching below the knees. [4]
The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs. [2]
The procession passed the doorway: men bearing banners with sacred texts, acolytes swinging censers, a figure of the Saviour carved in wood borne aloft, the Cure under a silk canopy, and a long line of habitants following with sacred song. [11]
He ran to the dog, which had silently collapsed like a punctured bag of silk, drew out the kris, then swung towards Boonda Broke, whose cool, placid eyes met his without emotion. [11]
Within fifteen minutes the carriage halted again, and before another silk store. [5]
The river brushed the banks like rustling silk, and the only other sound, very sharp and clear in the liquid monotone, was the crack of a woodpecker's beak on a hickory tree. [11]
On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown. [2]
So Ruth rejoiced that it chanced to be the Sabbath, and while she passed her hand over his doublet, he stroked her silk dress. [10]
His hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms downward. [2]
Even Mrs. Robert swished, but Mrs. Holt, in a bronze-coloured silk, swished most of all as she entered the library after a brief errand to the housekeeper's room. [9]
The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
In one corner stood a small bed with silk curtains--the nursery of the master's pets. [10]
There was a snowy place in front of the church all party-colored like a clown's coat,--scarlet capotes, yellow capotes, and blue capotes, and bright silk handkerchiefs. [9]
She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress. [8]
Made of red silk, too, by George. [5]
It was like silk, she often said, and she was right. [10]
She'll wear like silk, but she's not linen for everybody's washin'. [11]
The flag was silk, and incidentally Ephraim's most valued possession. [9]
With this were silk stockings tightly incasing the feet and limbs, as well as a ruff and cuffs of Mechlin lace. [10]
It is like silk from Tyre, like a swan's breast, like golden star-beams--there, it is fixed safely! [10]
We got no sight of the countless treasures of art in the Louvre galleries that day, and our only poor little satisfaction was in the reflection that Ferguson sold not a solitary silk dress pattern. [5]
Thick silk curtains shut out the bright May sunshine from the quiet room. [10]
Their silk hats shone, and their boots; their frocks had the right distension behind, and their bonnets perfect poise and distinction. [8]
Then there are shirts of cambric, holland, and lawn, wrought with fine needle-work of silk and curiously stitched, costing sometimes as much as five pounds. [4]
Later I often saw the heavy white silk dress strewn with tiny bouquets which she wore as a bride and again remodelled at her silver wedding; for after her death it was left to my mother. [10]
And on some Saturday afternoons a grim figure in a linen duster and a silk skull-cap took a seat in the forward car. [9]
How the silk rustled, and one superb piece of fur vied with the other in costliness, the white with the red rose in beauty! [10]
He may be recognized even at a distance by his portly figure, his silk hat, and his dignified mien. [9]
The Seigneur was proud of his figure, and, unheeding the passing of fashions, held to the knee-breeches and silk stockings long after they had disappeared from the province. [11]
But now, with pieces of a silk handkerchief tied to the whistle and filled with air, I made a toy which, when squeezed, sent out a weird lament. [11]
She plays the piano, and looks all silk in calico. [11]
Henrica's over-excited senses perceived the light tread of the satin shoes and the rustle of the silk train, long before the approaching form had reached the room, and with quickened breathing, she sat erect. [10]
And did not parthenogenesis occur in the silk moth? [9]
Delightful illusion of paint and tinsel and silk attire, of cheap sentiment and high and mighty dialogue! [5]
A large bedstead, over which a pointed canopy of heavy silk rose to the ceiling, stood at the back, the coffin in which the dead woman lay had been placed in the middle of the room. [10]
He is an old, retired, and very rich silk manufacturer from Lyons, they say, and I guess he is alone in the world, for he always looks sad and dreamy, and doesn't talk with anybody. [5]
Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt-fronts, diamond breast-pins, kid gloves, and patent-leather boots. [5]
In the midst of them was Dorothy, in a crimson silk capuchin, for we had had one of our changes of weather. [9]
The cedar-wood pillars of the tent were covered with gold, and the ropes, which secured the light erection to the tent-pegs, were twisted of silk, and thin threads of silver. [10]
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]
The under-robe was of soft sea-green bombyx silk, with a broad border, delicately embroidered, of a garland of roses and buds. [10]
Hose and breeches of silk, velvet, or other rich stuff, and fringed garters wrought of gold or silver, worth five pounds apiece, are some of the items noted. [4]
The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate. [4]
He was robbed of his clothes, of his gold-handled dagger, his belt of silk and silver, his carbine with rich chasing, and all, and he was among them almost naked,--it was summer, as I said, yet defying them. [11]
The dried-leaf rustle of her silk dress was suggestive of the ripe autumn of life, bringing with it those golden fruits of wisdom and experience which the grave teachers of mankind so justly prefer to the idle blossoms of adolescence. [6]
On this work of art lay the pillows used at night, booty obtained at Haarlem; they were covered with bright but worn-out silk, which had long shown the need of the thrifty touch of a woman's hand. [10]
We had often noticed that many of the students wore a colored silk band or ribbon diagonally across their breasts. [5]
Certainly it was not merely his dress, which consisted wholly of velvet, silk, and satin, with the gold of the Fleece that hung below the lace ruff at his throat. [10]
Ruth also appeared, not in the yellow silk dress, but clad in rags of a beggar, and she wept, hiding her face in her mother's lap. [10]
Among the obnoxious noises are the crumpling of silk stuffs, the sound of sweeping, the croaking of frogs. [6]
The Asiatic princess must appear in silk, gold and precious stones. [10]
Let me introduce Mr Abel Garland, sir--his young master; my articled pupil, sir, and most particular friend:--my most particular friend, sir,' repeated the Notary, drawing out his silk handkerchief and flourishing it about his face. [12]
There was a moon, and the figure in the frock coat and the silk hat was the one which she expected to see. [9]
The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost. [5]
Sometimes they are made of silk, sometimes of a raspy, scratchy, slazy woolen material with a sandpaper surface. [5]
He had a long, greasy, flowered silk waistcoat next to his sallow, thin bare body, but no shirt. [2]
Her hair was like corn silk in the sun, twisting up into soft curls after her bath, when she sat rosily presiding over her supper table. [9]
She's the beautifullest-shaped lady that ever had a shinin' silk gown drawed over her shoulders. [6]
Caracalla took the knife from him, cut the silk, hastily broke the seal, and began to read. [10]
We don't do it in Thamesfontein, my noble buccaneer--not even in Barry Whalen's mansion in Ladbroke Square, where Barry Whalen, Esq., puts his silk hat on the hall table, and-- and, 'If you please, sir, your bath is ready'! [11]
Nay, nor was it hard for her to fancy Ann arrayed in silk and gems as a Sultana. [10]
Every thread of it had been delicately and firmly knitted, till it was like perfect soft blue cloth, relieved by a little red silk ribbon at the collar. [11]
Well, here he is, sure enough, in a tight silk shirt, and with two things that look like batter puddings in the place of his fists. [6]
Belotti was standing in the entry, no longer attired in the silk hose and satin-bordered cloth garments of the steward, but in a plain burgher dress. [10]
She had ventured in not long ago at twilight, with her cough and her pale face, in a silk gown and flower-garden of a hat, and crept into one of the confessional boxes, and told him her story. [4]
He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. [2]
And suddenly, overwhelmed, I remembered that it was wrapped in Polly Ann's silk handkerchief. [9]
And I fancy I can see the multitude coming on; the motley hues of velvet and silk, the housings and trappings of the horses, the bright sheen of polished metal, and the sparkle of cut gems dazzle my eyes, I ween, to this day. [10]
I recall well how jolly Governor Sharpe, who was a frequent visitor with us, was wont to display a comely calf in silk stocking; and how Captain Daniel Clapsaddle would spread his feet with his toes out, and settle his long pipe between his teeth. [9]
Isaac Worthington laid his silk hat on the table, and sat down. [9]
He took up his silk hat and thrust that, too, into the worn lining, which was already filled with papers. [9]

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