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Sentences ending with skirt

He knows that there is no power on earth that can prevent the return of the long skirt. [4]
The dancing frenzy must have seized upon her while she was dressing; for she was in her bodice, bare-armed, her hair floating unbound far below the waist of her barred or banded skirt. [6]
Turning her mother's head this way and that, she fastened on the cap and, hurriedly kissing her gray hair, ran back to the maids who were turning up the hem of her skirt. [2]

More example sentences with the word skirt in them

It brightened the white kerchief, and the bodice and skirt of a faint pink, throwing the face into a pleasing shadow where the hand curved over the forehead. [11]
In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather. [9]
Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
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]
The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
They turned aside to skirt this wall, and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a "maze of gigantic snow crevices,"--so they turned aside again, and "began a long climb of sufficient steepness to make a zigzag course necessary. [5]
Golly, I'd like to see it on you, with the blue skirt over, and just hitched up a little. [11]
My object was to cross the river softly, skirt the Levis shore, pass the Isle of Orleans, and so steal down the river. [11]
Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
Mazarine had seen the flutter of a blue skirt in the waiting-room, and his wife had worn blue that day! [11]
The cause of the delay was Natasha's skirt, which was too long. [2]
Spread out your skirt, you Redhead! [10]
And catching her skirt, she flew quickly up the stairs. [9]
He grasped the skirt of the coat impulsively and another thrill followed. [5]
She was dressed simply in a shirtwaist and a dark skirt, but Honora thought her striking looking. [9]
I can still see myself in a short pink skirt, with a wreath of roses on my fair curls, wings on my shoulders, a quiver on my back, and a bow in my hand, standing before the mirror very much pleased with my appearance. [10]
His foot slipped on the oily floor, and the acid spilled on his hands and the skirt of her dress. [11]
Through the streets of Frederick, through Crampton's Gap, over South Mountain, sweeping at last the hills and the woods that skirt the windings of the Antietam, the long battle had travelled, like one of those tornadoes which tear their path through our fields and villages. [6]
He pulled a man (aged seventeen) out from under a great hoop skirt in a little closet, and the man had a pistol that refused its duty when snapped in the Captain's face. [9]
She adds six inches to her skirt, she unplaits her dangling braids and balls her hair on top of her head, she stops sleeping with her little sister and has a room to herself, and becomes in many ways a thundering expense. [5]
Princess Mary lowered her eyes and, tripping over her skirt, came close up to them. [2]
At this Orlando giggled again, and ventured the remark that no doctor could dispense enough medicine in a year to pay her laundry bill for a month--which pleased the old lady greatly and impelled her to swing her skirt kittenishly. [11]
It is a fine house, surrounded by delightful grounds, which skirt the banks of the Avon for a considerable distance, and come close up to the enclosure of the Church of the Holy Trinity, beneath the floor of which lie the mortal remains of Shakespeare. [6]
They wore short dresses, with the upper skirt looped up, and had broad hips and big waists. [4]
Her sleeves were drawn back to the elbow, and a dainty white apron covered her blue skirt, while the wind from the lake had disentangled errant wisps of her hair. [9]
And here is Dolly, holding her skirt in one hand and her fan in the other, and I in a brave blue coat, and pumps with gold buttons, and a cocked hat of the newest fashion. [9]
And the next day I gave Tom a round talking-to for having so little regard for his sister, the hem of whose skirt he was not worthy to touch. [9]
The knife she carried under her skirt flashed out and into Boyne's heart. [11]
When she went back-loaded with oranges, apples, hard-boiled eggs, bread and salt, in the skirt of her dress that she gathered up with one hand, and with a flask of wine and water, and a gourdbowl in the other-she found him still lying unconscious. [10]
There she sits and her skirt dangles.... See, she's got a little hunting horn! [2]
As he was about to pass out of the street to skirt the grove, he once more slunk down at the sound of trotting horses. [13]
At their skirt a trail branches off which leads to Mr. Whey's warehouses, on the water's edge a mile or so below. [9]
The swish of a skirt seemed ridiculously loud in the hush, and the scratching of the judge's quill pen was noisily irritating. [11]
She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her. [9]

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