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Sentences starting with wearing

Wearing a waistcoat over his cotton shirt, Ferapontov was standing before his shop which opened onto the street. [2]

Sentences ending with wearing

Worn for the first time this day, in a month it would be unpresentably shabby and then, ere long, flung aside as past wearing. [10]
I like that dark-red dress you're wearing. [11]

Short sentences using wearing

The afternoon was wearing away. [4]

More example sentences with the word wearing in them

My Western course would easily amount to $10,000, but I would rather make 2 or 3 thousand in New England than submit again to so much wearing travel. [5]
Our soldiers fight with weapons, such as are pictured on the walls of Theban tombs, wearing a newly invented head-gear as old as the days of the Pyramids. [6]
The gallery shook with laughter, and honourable members with slips of paper in their hands were made as conspicuous as if they had been caught wearing dunces' caps. [9]
An elegant carriage, with a coachman in a wonderful cape, seated on a box lofty as a throne, and wearing a hat-band as brilliant as a coronet, stopped at the portal of Madam Delacoste's establishment. [6]
So originated the wide-spread custom of wearing spectacles in Germany; and as a custom once established in these old lands is imperishable, this one remains universal in the empire to this day. [5]
How come you, who are one of the least of the gang, to be wearing sound shoes? [10]
As to the whiskers, as I have never worn any, do you not think that people would call it a piece of silly affectation were I to begin wearing them now? [7]
In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals. [2]
Apparently, Rhodes's agents were seconding their efforts--in fact wearing out the telegraph wires trying to hold him back. [5]
Why, no woman wears her gowns two seasons, and some of them rather hate wearing them two times. [11]
Indeed, she resented wearing them, and could hardly bring herself to thank him for them. [11]
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]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition pouch was slung. [2]
As the sun was wearing down to the western ridges the mischievous sorrel mare turned her pack on a sapling, and one of the precious bags burst. [9]
But the morning was wearing away; so he went to the schoolroom, taking leave very properly of his respected principal, who soon took his hat and departed. [6]
The driver's beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, sometimes; and so, but for the grandeur of his position his would have been a sorry life, as well as a hard and a wearing one. [5]
The old lady was no longer alone, for in the background, on a long and narrow couch which stood in front of the statue of Apollo, lay a tall, lean man, wearing a red chiton. [10]
Here, he knew, was his greatest enemy where David was concerned, and yet this pretty Saint Elizabeth was wearing a fine turquoise ring with a poke bonnet, in a very worldly fashion. [11]
And he, who usually flees from every creature wearing a woman's robe, had never forgotten that maiden and her noble beauty; and, though he did not say so, it was obvious, from every word, that he was madly in love. [10]
But a foule trouble there was to make him kneel to receive his Crown; he not knowing the majesty nor wearing of a Crown, nor bending of the knee, endured so many persuasions, examples and instructions as tyred them all. [4]
That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy--is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! [12]
While Ruth was thus absorbed in her new occupation, and the spring was wearing away, Philip and his friends were still detained at the Southern Hotel. [5]
It was as though he could see, for she was wearing a dark-red dress--"wine-coloured," her father called it, "maroon," Madame Bulteel called it. [11]
He felt the thing wearing on him, and he hesitated to speculate on the result; but he knew vaguely that it would end in disaster. [11]
What a blessed thing it would be if a lady could make herself conspicuous in our theaters by wearing her hat. [5]
He saw that there were no rings on her fingers save one, and that was her wedding-ring--and she had always been fond of wearing rings. [11]
Before and behind them other visitors were entering, also talking in low tones and wearing ball dresses. [2]
To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
Prince Andrew, in the white uniform of a cavalry colonel, wearing stockings and dancing shoes, stood looking animated and bright in the front row of the circle not far from the Rostovs. [2]
He was wearing the white Horse Guard's cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap. [2]
A general, wearing the uniform of the army of the United States, surrendered the whole state of Texas. [9]
The door of the tablinum flew open, and through it streamed the Parthian ambassadors, seven stately personages, wearing the gorgeous costume of their country, and followed by an interpreter and several scribes. [10]
Clemens talked to the reporters: Why don't you ask why I am wearing such apparently unseasonable clothes? [5]
From early in the morning, wearing a dressing jacket, she attended to her household affairs, and then she drove out: on holy days to church and after the service to jails and prisons on affairs of which she never spoke to anyone. [2]
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]
It had been the home of Count Gunther von Schwarzburg, who paid with his life for the honour of wearing the German imperial crown a few short months. [10]
His clothes were the clothes of the Western man; and yet there was a manner of wearing them, there were touches which were evidence to the watchful observer that he was of other spheres. [11]
But some said that they likewise commanded the hangman to nail up a gallows-cord behind his house door; others, rather, that he had taken upon himself the penance of ever wearing such a cord about his neck day and night. [10]
It was observable that these official strongholds were now protected against rushes by bolted gates, and that these were in ward of servants wearing the House's livery. [5]
He had dreamed that he and Uncle Pierre, wearing helmets such as were depicted in his Plutarch, were leading a huge army. [2]
A single torturing, terrifying thought went racking round and round in his head, wearing a groove in his brain: What should he do--What was to become of him? [5]
I left them talking to Roscoe, he wearing such a look on his face as I like to remember now, free from distress of mind--so much more painful than distress of body. [11]
The bandage was taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at his breast. [2]
A ponderous tow-headed Swiss woman, who put on many fine-lady airs, but was evidently more used to washing linen than wearing it, sat in a corner seat and put her legs across into the opposite one, propping them intermediately with her up-ended valise. [5]
It was doubtless suggested by that old fancy of wearing a portion of elk's hoof hung round the neck or in a ring, for this disease. [3]
Morel, a short sturdy Frenchman with inflamed and streaming eyes, was wearing a woman's cloak and had a shawl tied woman fashion round his head over his cap. [2]
Miles reflected during some moments, then said to himself, "Yes, that is the thing to do--by any other means it were impossible to get at it--and certes, this hour's experience has taught me 'twould be most wearing and inconvenient to continue it as it is. [5]
Lali's was a slim, lithe figure, wearing its fashionable robes with an air of possession; and the face above it, if not entirely beautiful, had a strange, warm fascination. [11]
He was quite silent after this, still wearing the slight flush on his cheek. [6]
We knew where she worshiped; we knew the houses she frequented, the charities she patronized, the fetes she adorned, every new costume that her wearing made the fashion. [4]
Surrounding Victoria were several clean-looking, freckled, and tanned young men of undergraduate age wearing straw hats with coloured ribbons, who showed every eagerness to obey and even anticipate the orders she did not hesitate to give them. [9]
Neokori, or temple servants, and a large number of worshippers of Isis, closed the procession, all wearing wreaths and carrying flowers. [10]
Miracle on miracle seemed to him to have been wrought in his behalf; for Heaven had not only sent him Dada, but she was wearing blue ribbands; and when he asked her why, she had replied "For your sake, and because I like your Faith. [10]
I did not see that brisk young general again until last year; then he was wearing white hair and whiskers. [5]
While Pierre was running the few steps that separated him from the Frenchman, the tall marauder in the frieze gown was already tearing from her neck the necklace the young Armenian was wearing, and the young woman, clutching at her neck, screamed piercingly. [2]
In her snug room, with lamps burning before the icon stand, a young lad with a long nose and long hair, wearing a monk's cassock, sat on the sofa beside her, behind a samovar. [2]
I have been resting from the fatigues of London, while you have been wearing yourself out. [9]
But before he reached them Pierre stopped beside a very handsome, dark man of middle height, and in a white uniform, who stood by a window talking to a tall man wearing stars and a ribbon. [2]
And, sure enough, pretty soon Frau Brandt followed after, in charge of the officers and wearing jingling chains. [5]
His form was powerful, and there was a commanding aspect in his bearded face, and in the high brow, crowned with a golden diadem adorned with the heads of two Uraeus-snakes, wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. [10]
It is a petty, wearing annoyance. [14]
At last she perceived that there was not going to be any peace for her until she should devise a test that should prove, clearly and without question, whether this lad was her son or not, and so banish these wearing and worrying doubts. [5]
Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get. [5]
A tall, bald-headed old man with a red nose, wearing a dressing gown and with galoshes on his bare feet, stood in the anteroom. [2]
At the hazard of wearing this point threadbare, I will relate an anecdote which seems too strikingly in point to be omitted. [7]
On a portion of this pavement, raised above the rest, stood the priests, some wearing ostrich-feathers on their bald and shining heads; others panther-skins over their white-robed shoulders. [10]
A little ahead of them walked a peasant guide, wet to the skin and wearing a gray peasant coat and a white knitted cap. [2]
In the uniform of the Preobrazhensk regiment--white chamois-leather breeches and high boots--and wearing a star Rostov did not know (it was that of the Legion d'honneur), the monarch came out into the porch, putting on his gloves and carrying his hat under his arm. [2]
At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker's signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats. [2]
In the bottom of the dingey lay a man, apparently dead, wearing the clothes of a convict. [11]
From the Terror of France I had got a peasant's dress, and by rubbing my hands and face with the stain of butternut, cutting again my new-grown beard, and wearing a wig, I was well guarded against discovery. [11]
She had had no sleep in four days, and it was wearing on her, she said to herself, refusing to believe that a sickness was coming. [11]
You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is--if I may be allowed the expression--sloppy. [12]
I had seen my lady off for England, wearing my faded flowers, the panniers of the fine gentleman in a neglected pile at her cabin door. [9]
There is nothing more wearing to a woman than affectionate attentions from a man who has claims upon her, but whom she does not love. [11]
Gone, and no more shall we have any discourse or delight of him, Wearing his pain like a song, casting his troubles behind. [11]
Preachers take two months' holiday in midsummer, for they find that to produce two sermons a week is wearing, in the long run. [5]
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. [6]
Down below, a man wearing something red was running through the marsh. [2]
I did not like to think that the keen edge of the enjoyment of possession was wearing a little, while at the same time I philosophized that the divine fire, when legalized, settles down to a comfortable glow. [9]
The world is large, but there's a sort of whipper-in of Fate, who drives the people wearing the same livery into one corner in the end. [11]
You can appreciate it if you have ever visited royalty and felt occasionally that possibly you might be wearing out your welcome--though as a general thing, I believe, royalty is not scrupulous about discharging you when it is done with you. [5]
Now hire one instantly, and stop this nonsense of wearing Mollie and yourself out trying to do that nursing yourselves. [5]
The royal chariot in which Klea was standing, wrapped in the cloak and wearing the hat of the captain of the civic guard, went swiftly and without stopping through the streets of Memphis. [10]
Sir Richard came in upon the King at the moment that his Majesty was receiving John Enderby--a whiteheaded old man, yet hale and strong, and wearing the uniform of the King's Guard. [11]
Why, I believe I could walk along the streets of New York--I never do --but still I think I could--and I should never see a well-dressed man wearing a plug-hat. [5]
The company which his son commanded, wearing his father's belt and sword, was about as effective as the old company, and more orderly. [4]
Having received all his orders Alpatych, wearing a white beaver hat--a present from the prince--and carrying a stick as the prince did, went out accompanied by his family. [2]
He was wearing his long coat with three stars on his breast. [2]
Outside, Mr. Trevor, his face wearing an immutable expression of defiance for the wickedness surrounding him, had placed his daughter for safe-keeping between himself and the only other reliable character on board,--the refrigerator. [9]
In among the hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. [2]
Not far from him walked a fat major with a sallow, bloated, angry face, who was wearing a Kazan dressing gown tied round with a towel, and who evidently enjoyed the respect of his fellow prisoners. [2]
Princess Mary saw him walk out of the house in his uniform wearing all his orders and go down the garden to review his armed peasants and domestic serfs. [2]
They say she hides a mark on her neck by always wearing a necklace. [6]
She had persuaded herself that she was playing the part of a Protestant sister of charity, and that the fact of her not wearing the costume of these ministering angels made no difference in her relations to those who needed her aid. [6]
Peter who, despite her efforts to teach him distinction in dress, insisted upon wearing the same kind of clothes. [9]
At last we heard the front door shut behind them, and my father came upstairs, his usually serene face wearing a disturbed expression. [9]
The procession was headed by richly-decorated priests, either wearing long white robes or pantherskins. [10]
Again and again he went to the pail of water that stood on the window-sill, and lifting it to his lips, drank deep and full, to quench the wearing thirst. [11]

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