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Sentences ending with wore

The air grew warmer and warmer, but no one became restless; all seemed as cool of face and body as the grey gowns and coats with grey steel buttons which they wore. [11]
He found in the Fort an old sword and belt, left by some Hudson's Bay Company's man, and these he furbished up and wore. [11]
For a moment so, in silence, and then she rose to her feet, and pulled down over her face the veil she wore. [11]
Thereupon Connor laid siege to the white-toothed, wild- bearded Sikh with words which suddenly came to renown, and left not a shred of glory to the garment of vanity the hillman wore. [11]
Mr. Dulany was one of the presidents of the Jockey Club that year, and his horse winning the honours he presented her with his colours, scarlet and white, which she graciously wore. [9]
As David spoke, Kaid's face grew darker, his fingers fumbled vaguely with the linen of the loose white robe he wore. [11]
Let a man jump in, and instantly he is cased in an armor more gorgeous than ever kingly Crusader wore. [5]
They were dressed in white blanket costumes from head to foot, white woollen capotes covering the grey fur caps they wore. [11]
Even Jim Beadle, his servant, standing at the foot of the bed, clapped a hand to his mouth to stop a cry, and the nurse turned as white as the apron she wore. [11]
There was a dignity not of earth in its mien, and in its countenance a benignity such as never any thing human wore. [5]

Short sentences using wore

The old minister wore knee-breeches. [6]
He always wore something unusual. [10]
The day wore on. [9]
The season wore on. [4]
The night wore on. [11]
The evening wore on. [11]
The day wore on. [11]
This wore upon my heart. [11]
He wore a mask. [13]
The day wore itself out. [5]

Sentences containing wore two or more times

As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun "jeans," blue or yellow--here were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two--yarn ones knitted at home,--some wore vests, but few wore coats. [5]
So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel. [5]
The rich robes that Nausicaa wore she wore like a goddess. [4]
Of his two remarkable-looking hearers one was wrapped in a long and splendid robe and wore a rich display of gold chains and rings, while the other wore nothing over his short chiton but a Roman toga thrown over his left shoulder. [10]
Most of those present were of my society, and wore crape on their badges, and all wore the usual crape on the left arm. [4]
Furthermore, said Abdul Huseyn, in proof of their madness and a certain sort of holiness, they wore hats always, as Arabs wore their turbans, and were as like good Mahommedans as could be, sitting down to speak and standing up to pray. [11]
Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations called "corps. [5]
He wore a business suit of rough material and fashionable cut, but he wore it like a man who did not give much thought to his clothes. [4]
Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. [5]

More example sentences with the word wore in them

He wore a yellow top-coat, and red-heeled shoes of the latest fashion, and I settled at once he was the Duke of Chartersea. [9]
He wore my yellow and green, sir, until he got to weigh one hundred and a quarter. [9]
Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
He wore his wrist in a sling. [11]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles. [5]
I meant to work this racket more and more, as time wore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. [5]
As the afternoon wore, desire to see these toilers once more took possession of her. [9]
The shoes he wore were those of an adult, but cracked and split, revealing the cotton stocking and here and there the skin. [9]
A new sickness wore upon her. [11]
For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast. [5]
Her locket I wore over my heart. [9]
Sure it's all wore out he was. [9]
As the morning wore on, they saw upon a crag of ice below the sloping glacier two men looking upwards towards the flag. [11]
As the evening wore on, the probability of Frank's appearance seemed less; and the Armours began to breathe more freely. [11]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
As the night wore on, Lavilette could hear hoof-beats behind him; those of the mare growing clearer and clearer, and those of the artillerymen remaining about the same, monotonously steady. [11]
As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
As the winter wore on, and March town meeting approached, strange rumors of a Democratic ticket began to drift into Jonah Winch's store,--a Democratic ticket headed by Fletcher Bartlett, of all men, as chairman of the board. [9]
As the days wore on, and I attended to my cases, I thought of Maude a great deal, and in those moments when the pressure of business was relaxed, she obsessed me. [9]
The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
Thus the summer wore on to early autumn. [9]
As the day wore on to afternoon a blue haze--harbinger of autumn--settled over fort and forest. [9]
As the night wore on they decided on the punishment to be meted out by La Touche to the man who had not "acted on the square. [11]
As the afternoon wore on there were silences, when Honora, by staring over the waters, tried to collect her thoughts. [9]
As the day wore on our numbers increased, we were joined by other lawyers of renown, not the least of whom was Mr. Grolier himself, fresh from his triumph over religious heresy in his Church Convention. [9]
While the night wore on he rode as slowly back to the town as he had galloped from it like a centaur with a captive. [11]
The mourning she wore made her seem even taller. [9]
As the days wore into months, Monsieur Vigo's place very naturally became the headquarters for our army, if army it might be called. [9]
The Citizen Quartermaster wore his hair long in the backwoods fashion; he had a keen, pale face and sunken eyes. [9]
Even the policemen wore happy smiles, and in some instances the election officers themselves in absent-minded exuberance thrust bunches of ballots into the boxes! [9]
The clothes they wore had been Sunday clothes for at least that length of time. [4]
Some long minutes wore away; at last he thought he perceived that Hermas had raised himself. [10]
So the summer wore away, while we lived from hand to mouth on such scanty fare as the two of them shot and what we could venture to gather in the unkempt fields near the gates. [9]
As the morning wore away she saw that they did not notice the fact. [11]
The landscape still wore an almost wintry appearance when our travelers left Chicago. [5]
Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
The senator's face wore a look of concern which could not possibly be misinterpreted. [9]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
One of them wore a fresh red-and-white calamanco gown. [9]
A merry soldier's-cook wore a captain's plume on the side of his tall hat. [10]
She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots. [2]
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
They wore dresses with wide skirts and flounces, and queer low collars and bonnets. [9]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
Her cheeks glowed with health, and she wore a becoming suit of dark blue. [9]
To her question why she, a heathen, wore this about her, the old woman replied, "You can never tell what may help you some day. [10]
This rider, beneath whose weight the powerful steed trembled and panted, wore a vesture of scarlet and white, thickly embroidered with eagles and falcons in silver. [10]
The old man, whose name was Ripley, wore a nut-brown hunting shirt trimmed with red cotton; and he had no sooner slipped the packs from his horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. [9]
The student by whose courtesy we had been enabled to visit the dueling-place, wore the white cap--Prussian Corps. [5]
Even the tax-gatherer, who was stout, and wore spectacles and a broad-brimmed hat, had the taxes handed through the grating. [12]
She wore a white robe with wide, open sleeves, and her arms shone in the dim light as white as her garment. [10]
They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats. [5]
He was in white linen and wore a broad hat, which he took from his head as he advanced. [9]
She wore a white lawn dress. [9]
He wore a white double-breasted coat, white trousers, and white shoes. [5]
These ladies wore white aprons as they waited on the burly farmers. [9]
Each wore a white apron, and each made a short speech. [5]
She wore the whistle that Trevoor gave her. [11]
The golden cord which she wore round her neck at the great party was still there. [6]
Not her clothes, which she wore as if she had been used to them all her life. [9]
The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
And if you were to die--" her voice broke a little as she passed her hand over my brow, "if you were to die, my single comfort would have been that you wore it then. [9]
Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying. [2]
The young ladies were all in dark blue dresses, touched up with a red ribbon here and there, and wore light straw hats. [6]
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]
After breakfast he went up-stairs and put, on a light loose frock, instead of that which he commonly wore, which was a close-fitting and rather stylish one. [6]
A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling. [11]
The fair-haired man's well-cut features wore the rigid, lifeless expression of a mask. [10]
I am never well,--he answered.--His eyes fell mechanically on the death's-head ring he wore on his right hand. [6]
But as the weeks wore away, Conrad's color came back to his cheeks and his old-time vivacity to his eye, and he administered the government with a clear and steadily ripening wisdom. [5]
This was the weak point in the armor which she wore so bravely for her cousin. [9]
They had no waterproofs nor rubbers, of course; over their shoulders they wore gunnysacks--simply conductors for rivers of water; some of the volume reached the ground; the rest soaked in on the way. [5]
Little Rias Richardson was willing to come in, and help move the barrels, and on such occasions wore carpet slippers to save his shoes. [9]
His large head was very grey; and his whiskers, which he wore only around his face, like a frame, were grey also. [5]
His fair skin was tanned by the weather, and he wore his own wavy hair powdered, as was just become the fashion, and tied with a ribbon behind. [9]
Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church. [2]
Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body. [2]
His flannel suit was of the lightest of grays; he wore white tennis shoes and a red tie, and it was plain, as he cheerfully bade them good morning, that he was wholly unaware of the enormity of his costume. [9]
The magnificent star was missing; in its place she wore at the square-cut neck of her dress two beautiful halfblown roses, and her mirror had showed her how becoming they were. [10]
When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
His left arm was in a sling, and he wore a large green patch over his left eye; he limped slightly, and used an oaken staff as a support. [5]
Then, when she was gone beyond recall, he chanced one day to put on the coat he wore when the letters and paper declaring his misfortune came to him. [11]
One, whose name was Cutcheon, was a little man with a short forehead and a bad eye, and he wore a weather-beaten blue coat of military cut. [9]
It was yet warm, and the handsome features wore a smile. [11]
As for the Vicomtesse, she wore an ingenuous air of detachment, and seemed supremely unconscious of the volcano by her side. [9]
The uneasiness, the vague fear of the future, wore away, and she slept peacefully. [9]
Instead of their usual splendid attire, both wore dark robes, and the royal consort and mother, who mourned her first-born son, leaned motionless, with drooping head, against her kingly husband's shoulder. [10]
They kept near Ursel Vorchtel, and she and her brother Ulrich, of course, behaved as if I wore a fern cap and had become invisible. [10]
When the insolent uproar went up from the "Greens," whose color he himself wore, he had found it difficult to refrain from rushing on the cowardly crew and knocking some of them down. [10]
I was bundled up in a new ulster,--of which I was secretly quite proud,--but he wore no overcoat at all. [9]
Yet this face, unlike Eglington's, expressed a perfect single-mindedness; it wore the look of a self-effacing man of luminous force, a concentrated battery of energy. [11]
There was no uniformity in their apparel, yet each one wore some portion of a martial and resplendent dress--an ornamented kepi, or a scarlet sash, or big golden epaulets, or a military coat braided with yellow. [4]
He wore the uniform of a Union sergeant,--dusty and splotched and torn. [9]

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