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Sentences ending with velvet

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]
Her dress was of dark green, of a most delicate shade, and with the clinging softness and texture of velvet. [11]
Half a mile down the slope they entered a luxuriant growth of willows, and soon came into an open space carpeted with grass like deep green velvet. [13]
The hilts of daggers, rapiers, and swords are gilt thrice over, and have scabbards of velvet. [4]
Ulrich again stood before the Alcazar, and recalled the hour when, a poor lad, just escaped from prison, he had been harshly rebuffed by the same porter, who now humbly saluted the young gentleman attired in costly velvet. [10]

Short sentences using velvet

A velvet hose! [4]

More example sentences with the word velvet in them

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]
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and velvet gown. [2]
And he walked with me till mornin', carryin' the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin' on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
Wine-coloured Flanders velvet, with a border of dark-brown marten fur! [10]
Great lords only wish to see the velvet side of life--of death's doings, nothing at all. [10]
The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
A riotous party were toping and reveling in the beautiful garden of the impluvium round a fire which they had lighted on the velvet turf. [10]
Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels. [5]
The color thereof was white and sapphire-blue, and so likewise were the velvet cap and finely-rounded ostrich feather, which was fastened into it with a brooch of sparkling precious stones. [10]
The water ahead was now like blue velvet, and the rain pelting. [9]
Wolf's gift, the velvet robe with the marten border, would have been too heavy and oppressive for singing, and, besides, was not yet finished. [10]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
After generously giving up its prey to the little wife brooding over the eggs, it stood on one leg and gazed thoughtfully down upon the city, whose shining red tiles gleamed spick and span from the green velvet carpet of the meadows. [10]
The golden, velvet truth it was, too. [11]
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
Besides, who is to choose the velvet and cut for this young dandy? [10]
Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles. [2]
And presently, winding through the trees, we were in sight of a long, brick mansion trimmed with white, and a velvet lawn before it all flecked with shadows. [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]
Then, standing on the velvet is a yellow wooden chick, with little eyes of beads, and a little wooden bill stuck in most quaintly, and a head that twists like a weathercock. [11]
Next he tried the velvet collar, and smiled a smile of such contentment that it was plain to see that he regarded that as the daintiest thing about an overcoat. [5]
This night after the storm was capriciously mild, the velvet gown of heaven sewn with stars. [9]
In the distance the shadowed western ridge hung like a curtain of deep blue velvet against the sunset. [9]
Finally, she laid the piece of velvet over the back of a chair, let it fall down to the floor, and threw the bands of fur upon it. [10]
Not one of the humbler citizens and workmen is absent, but the gentlemen in velvet and fur are but thinly represented. [10]
Below these are the gally-hose of silk, velvet, satin, and damask, reaching below the knees. [4]
Massi noticed that the articles taken out could scarcely be intended for a man's use, and, pointing to a piece of Flanders velvet, he gaily remarked: "So my guess was correct. [10]
Putting down in the anteroom whatever might be in his way while greeting Barbara, and carrying the roll of velvet under his arm and a little box in his pocket, he entered the chamber which the old man called his artist workshop. [10]
Then she saw that the hair was longer, and more wavy than his, and fell down a little over the velvet collar of a coat with a wide lapel and brass buttons, and that the original of this portrait had worn a stock. [9]
Scattering the sheep that flecked the velvet turf of the uplands, they stood at length on the granite crown of the crest itself. [9]
At the back stood the Emperor's throne, covered with purple damask, and beside it numerous velvet cushions lay piled one upon another, waiting to be used. [10]
There must be some logical connection between the habit and the age, since crimson velvet and gold brocade would have made Eldon Parr merely ridiculous. [9]
It held a silver buckle tied by a velvet ribbon. [11]
The velvet gown should now decide whether he gave the preference to her or to pretty Elspet Zohrer--of course, only in the dance--for she would never have accepted him as a serious suitor. [10]
Hurrying thither in shocked anxiety, he found a curled gentleman of the guard, resplendent in red velvet and gold chains, in peevish argument with a boisterous Seigneur of a bronzed good-humoured face, who urged his entrance to the presence-chamber. [11]
How well his satin clothes and velvet cloak became him, how beautifully the white puffs were relieved against the deep blue of his dress! [10]
Profoundly depressed, Stephen sat straight in the velvet chair, awaiting a seasonable time to bring his visit to a close. [9]
Moonlight, and the sand swishing from under the velvet hoofs of the camel, the silence like a filmy cloak, sleep everywhere, save at the eyes of the fugitive. [11]
It was the same with her velvet skin, which even at Nuremberg had many a time brought to men's minds the maid in the tale of "Snow-white and Rose-red. [10]
He wore a red velvet coat embroidered with gold, and as costly ruffles as I had ever seen in London. [9]
Another foreigner, Jacob Rathgeb, 1592, says the English go dressed in exceeding fine clothes, and some will even wear velvet in the street, when they have not at home perhaps a piece of dry bread. [4]
One shook the raindrops from his richly embroidered velvet cloak and the plumes in his cap, the other from his steel helmet and suit of Milan mail, inlaid with gold. [10]
And to-morrow, my pretty Egyptian kitten, your little velvet paw will be fast in a trap set by the poor despised eunuch, who was not allowed, forsooth, to give you any orders. [10]
Long chains of pearls and glittering gems hung on the sallow skin displayed by the open neck of her dress, and on the false, reddish-yellow curls rested a roll of light-blue velvet decked with ostrich plumes. [10]
The priest came out with his purple velvet biretta on his head, adjusted his hair, and knelt down with an effort. [2]
Little Mr. Butcher or Mr. Speaker Doby, with his sorrowful smile, guessed the iron hand within the velvet glove of the Leith statesman; little they knew the man they were dealing with. [9]
He was conscious of this as the panel clicked behind him, and the folds of the red velvet caught his shoulder in falling. [11]
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]
A magnificent garment of fine cloth, richly broidered with Flanders velvet, flowed about her slender body. [10]
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]
As she took my arm, her finger-tips plunged softly into the velvet of my sleeve, giving me a thrill of courage. [11]
There he is lying back in an armchair in his velvet cloak, leaning his head on his thin pale hand. [2]
The velvet lawn looked like a stable-floor; the rare shrubs had been denuded of their flowers and branches. [10]
She wore a long Talma of crimson cashmere, and her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet, For a fleeting second her eyes met his, and then her lashes fell. [9]
There are three little circles of deerskin and one of ruby velvet, stitched together in the centre. [11]
We passed the last of its houses that nestled against the hill, and below that the forest lay like velvet under the moon. [9]
He gave a languid pull at the velvet tassel on his bell-rope, ordered the wine; and, being informed that his anteroom below was full of people, had them all dismissed with the message that he was engaged upon important affairs. [9]
We have heard it so often, that it has idealized itself, and become one of that multitude of permanent shapes which walk the chambers of the brain in velvet slippers in the company of Falstaff and Hamlet and General Washington and Mr. Pickwick. [6]
Inside, sporting gentlemen in hunting-frocks of red and green, and velvet visored caps, were shouldering favoured 'ostlers from the different noblemen's stables; and there was a liberal sprinkling of the characters who attended the cock mains in Drury Lane and at Newmarket. [9]
The peacock feather in his little velvet cap could easily be replaced, but the doublet was torn, not ripped, and the stocking scarcely capable of being mended. [10]
She was dressed in a gown almost as simple in make as that of the nurse, but of exquisite material--the soft green velvet which she had worn when she met Ian in the sweetshop in Regent Street. [11]
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]
Why, I think I can see him frowning at me now, from the door, in his blue velvet goat and silverlaced waistcoat. [9]
I must know how it feels to take your ease, and stroke your velvet, and order lackeys about. [9]
The latter had his back towards her and was showing Bessie his dark velvet cap, surrounded by rectangular teeth, above which floated a beautiful light-blue ostrich-plume. [10]
She pushed away her unfinished glass, gathered up her velvet bag and rose abruptly. [9]
The velvet of her cheeks had grown richer, and her eyes deeper with warm fire. [11]
I have seen her as soft as Flemish velvet, but at other times she could rage like a November storm in your country. [10]
Panting for breath, he seized his handkerchief to wipe it, and in doing so the roll of velvet which he had held under his arm fell on the floor. [10]
Nay, meseemed that he and Ursula had no part with us; inasmuch as that she was arrayed in velvet and rich brocade, and a bower, as it were, of yellow and purple ostrich plumes curled above her riding-hat. [10]
But the iron hand is not less irresistible because it wears the velvet glove. [6]
And, when you had been keeping this sort of thing up two or three hours, and your little velvet head intimated that nothing suited him like exercise and noise, what did you do? [5]
How the crimson glowed, the plumes waved, the heavy velvet attracted the eye by rich hues, the light laces by their delicate fineness! [10]
The "man of glass" had a feminine 'pendant' in the "crazy Frau Councillor with the velvet envelope. [10]
Now came twelve French gentlemen, in splendid habiliments, consisting of pourpoints of white damask barred with gold, short mantles of crimson velvet lined with violet taffeta, and carnation coloured hauts-de-chausses, and took their way down the steps. [5]
Haste was necessary for, at the first glance at the velvet, she had determined to wear it at the next dance in the New Scales, and she also saw distinctly in imagination the person whose attention she desired to attract. [10]
A purple mantle fell from his shoulders, and the Duke of Alba was placing the crown on his head instead of the velvet cap. [10]
For that very fault I have been most severely punished, for had I wooed you in woollen, instead of in velvet, I should never have had the misfortune to be bound to a woman like you. [10]
You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. [5]
You saw the dress my mother pressed upon her for the ball--Genoese velvet and Venetian lace! [10]
He had often dreamed of it, and of the lace collar over the dull-gold velvet that became it so well. [9]
Slow, slow, we dragged over that velvet powder. [11]
Then it dropped down, presently, and its little velvet nose rested upon the floor, and it was still, and did not move any more. [5]
A purple velvet curtain seemed to hang all down the sky, though here and there the flame bronzed it. [11]
Dear me, anybody could see my head, and could not help noticing all the worn places in the velvet, if he cast his eyes down. [10]
The darkness which comes from intense feeling had gathered underneath her eyes, and gave them a look of pensiveness not in keeping with the glow of her perfect health, the velvet of her cheek. [11]
His beautiful wife, clad in costly velvet robes, was walking by his side with eyes decorously downcast; but he had surely recognised her--there was no doubt of that. [10]
He had a chestful, too: cloaks, and broadcloth coats, and velvet vests; everything swell, you know; and didn't the saltwater fix them out for him? [5]
I dressed in cheerful haste, took the sapphire pendant from its velvet box, tiptoed into the still silent schoolroom and hung it on the tree, flooding on the electric light that set the tinsel and globes ablaze. [9]
The artist's six cats glided about among the easels, or stretched their limbs on costly velvet and Arabian carpets. [10]
And there were camels about, but they go on velvet feet, and were proper to the silence and serenity of the surroundings. [5]
This was followed by loud laughs from others, and these laughs went out where the dust lay a foot thick and soft like precipitated velvet, and hurrying over the street, waked the Postmaster and roused the Little Milliner, who at once came to their doors. [11]
I could not but mark that my brother was sorely ill-pleased when Dame Henneleinlein patted his arm; and when she kissed his sweetheart on the lips he shrank as though someone had laid afoul hand on his light-hued velvet doublet. [10]
The velvet and brocade extorted from the rich citizens of Antwerp, now hung tattered and faded around their sinewy limbs. [10]
The velvet and brocade dresses belonging to the Baroness de Hierges had fallen to the Eletto. [10]
Wherefore I say: 'Bring hither all that giveth joy, wine and love-making, torches and the giddy dame in velvet and silk, dice and gaming, and mad rides, the fresh greenwood and bloody frays! [10]
The room shone brilliantly, yet just under the great canopy, over the dais; there were shadows, and they seemed to me, as I stepped under the red velvet, a relief, a sort of hiding-place from innumerable candles and hot unnatural eyes. [11]
On the platform, behind a bank of flowers, are the velvet covered chairs which contain the dignitaries of the occasion. [9]
He pointed out Barrington and Weymouth and Jerry Dyson and Sandwich, and Rigby in the court suit of purple velvet with the sword thrust through the pocket. [9]
His mother threw back the velvet curtains and opened a window. [5]

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