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Sentences ending with skirts

Isn't there one that won't smirch her soul and kill the faith of those that love her for some moment's excitement, for gold to gratify a vanity, or to have a wider sweep to her skirts? [11]

More example sentences with the word skirts in them

But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
How all Washington would gather up its virtuous skirts and avoid me, if it knew. [5]
They wore dresses with wide skirts and flounces, and queer low collars and bonnets. [9]
She would come tripping into the stable yard, daintily holding up her skirts, and crying, "Oh, Harvey, I have heard so much of Tanglefoot. [9]
Some of the Tories (for such we were pleased to call them) took refuge behind Mr. Fairbrother's skirts, who shook his cane angrily enough, but without avail. [9]
She had been too sure of herself to draw her skirts about her; she was too proud to let any man put her at any disadvantage. [11]
For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
It was as though she ought to have worn short skirts and her hair in a long braid down her back. [11]
The skirts of the image are worn quite smooth with kissing. [4]
The skirts of the crowd were now come to the foot of the little porch. [9]
He was ludicrously tall and ludicrously thin, his hands were in his trousers pockets, and the skirts of his Sunday broadcloth coat hung down behind him awry. [9]
It is a superb figure, clad in a high tight bodice and long skirts simply draped so as to show every motion of the athletic limbs. [4]
Seized by a sudden whim, she rang her bell, breakfasted at an unusual hour, and nine o'clock found her, with her skirts flying, on the road above the cliffs that leads to the Fort. [9]
Lifting up her skirts, she swung round and faced me. [9]
Gathering up her skirts, she ran to him, put both hands on his shoulders, kissed him on the cheek, and said: "Monsieur Garon, Monsieur Garon, my good avocat, my Solon! [11]
He seized her skirts, and implored her to wait. [5]
Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass. [2]
She raised her parasol and picked up her skirts and shot him a look. [9]
He saw the open door, listened to the rustle of her skirts, knew that she had been there. [11]
I wouldn't let one of 'em into my room without serving 'em as David served Saul at the cave in the wilderness,--cut off his skirts, Sir! [6]
A little frown of trouble came to her forehead, but she drove it away with a merry laugh, as he turned at the rustle of her skirts and came forward. [11]
I cannot help observing that this fashion of short skirts must have been invented by the French ladies as a complete trick upon John Bull's 'woman-folk. [4]
You know I never told you that I went on the river under a promise to pay Bixby $500, until I had paid the money and cleared my skirts of the possibility of having my judgment criticised. [5]
Shall I and my following hang on to your skirts and stay with you till nightfall, when you and your steed must return home? [10]
And in the midst of this mad struggle stood Agne with her little brother, who clung closely to her skirts and was too terrified to shed a tear or utter a cry. [10]
Clothes, of course, made some difference, and my class and generation did not wear the sombre and cumbersome kind, with skirts and tails; I patronized a tailor in New York. [9]
It was only like a frill on the skirts of life. [11]
The Great Republic lengthened her skirts last year, balled up her hair, and entered the world's society. [5]
He wore a jubon or close vest of crimson cloth, with cuisses or short skirts of yellow satin, a loose cassock of brocade, a rich Moorish scimiter, and a hat with plumes. [4]
Society will make its own rules, and although there are several other large hotels, and good houses as watering-place hotels go, and cottage-life here as elsewhere is drawing away its skirts from hotel life, society understood why a person might elect to stay at Rodick's. [4]
To transfer her hold from one limb to another, and work downward, keeping her skirts neatly gathered about her feet, was an achievement that the spectators could appreciate; the presence of spectators made it much more difficult. [4]
Beaton easily found his way to her around the grouped skirts and among the detached figures, and received a pressure of welcome from the hand which she momentarily relaxed from the tea-pot. [8]
Dyck noticed how her wide skirts flicked against the flowers that bordered the path, and how her feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground as she walked--a spirit, a regnant spirit of summer she seemed. [11]
She had cleared her skirts of any possible implication of intimacy with the late Mrs. Randolph, and done so with a master touch. [9]
She would let her skirts down so as to make a kind of train, and pile things on her head like a sort of crown, fold her arms and throw her head back, and feel as grand as a queen. [6]
She gathered up her skirts and tip-toed quickly across it. [11]
They're a nasty fringe on the skirts of Askatoon. [11]
Seeing that Mrs. Falchion made no effort to dislodge Amshar from her skirts, the Arab presently leaped forward. [11]
My skirts are clear (so far as other people are concerned) of countenancing that form of intellectual opium-eating in which rhyme takes the place of the narcotic. [6]
Just then I caught a glimpse of Captain Clapsaddle on the skirts of the crowd, and with him Mr. Swain and some of the dissenting gentry. [9]
Amshar was crouching behind Mrs. Falchion, and clinging to her skirts in abject fear. [11]
He was also aware that no scandal could be made through an alliance with Sheila, for she had inherited long after the revolutionary war and with her skirts free from responsibility. [11]
Ship-surgeons, as well as all other officers, weren't ordained to follow after cambric skirts and lace handkerchiefs at sea. [11]
I was hovering around the skirts of the crowd and seeking for an opening, when a hand pulled me off my feet. [9]
Virginia sat upright, and patted her skirts with a gesture of annoyance--what she felt was anger, resentment. [9]
We were rounding a lofty headland crowned with groves of cocoa-palms and bananas and with trailing skirts of flowers and vines, when we saw ahead of us a pretty little bay, and on the shore a human being plainly not a Polynesian. [11]
That was your--" The rustle of skirts on the stairs without arrested Mrs. March in the well-merited punishment which she never failed to inflict upon her husband when the question of the gimcrackery--they always called it that--came up. [8]

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