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Example sentences for "furbelows"

Lexicographically close words:
fuoco; fuor; fuora; fuori; fur; furbish; furbished; furbishing; furca; furcate
  1. Two days later Madam Wetherill brought her over in the neatest attire, with no furbelows or laces.

  2. I must finish this gown, as madam goes to Mrs. Chew's this afternoon, and all these furbelows have to be sewed on.

  3. The lacy folds and furbelows and semi-transparencies that clothed her were now tinged with gold and now, as a hedge or a flower bed screened her from the level rays, were softened into multitudinous graduations of grays and mauves and violets.

  4. Followed a vision of soft white folds and furbelows and semi-transparencies and purple eyes and a pouting mouth.

  5. Why do you not tell Master Wingfield that the maid, and not you nor Cousin Ralph, is the prime mover in this mystery of the cargo of furbelows on the Golden Horn?

  6. It was a man's room rather than a woman's, innocent of furbelows and frills.

  7. You can dress for both, and be as elegant as you please: it pays for you to be fine; it doesn't for me, and furbelows only worry me.

  8. The ladies' furbelows are blurred against the foliage, and the lilac-bushes loom through the air as though they were white clouds full of rain.

  9. They were learned in the frills and furbelows of things.

  10. Sit down and talk to me, and I will show thee my furbelows myself.

  11. She hadn't on the leastist bit of gold nor furbelows of any kind, only jest a leetle pin that glistened like a spark of fire, which pinned the velvet ribbon jest over her white forehead.

  12. The gal's furbelows didn't look so bad considering she was so young, yet it always seems to me as if heaps of jimcracks and finery piled on to a young critter looked kinder unnat'ral.

  13. In the soft black webs, woven for her by a hundred toiling human spiders, she held still the heritage of the proud woman in frills and furbelows and the fine old man in wig and smallclothes.

  14. My lady smiled as she looked at the festoons and furbelows which met her eyes upon every side.

  15. She was obliged to place the flaming tallow candle very close to the lace furbelows about the glass; so close that the starched muslin seemed to draw the flame toward it by some power of attraction in its fragile tissue.

  16. Maybe you'll come around to my view of the mental furbelows next.

  17. Auntie had deplored the borrowed furbelows with deep distress.

  18. Let's pack the mental furbelows up and send them over to Maud.

  19. I don't fancy mental furbelows that are not her own any more than dressmaker furbelows.

  20. It doesn't for me, and furbelows only worry me.

  21. Well, I don't know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.

  22. These ladies were apparently persons of high fashion; they were dressed with great splendor, and their long silken trains and furbelows were spread over the polished floor.

  23. On the whole, with her poetic furbelows and her misshapen, intelligent little face, she was, when you knew her, a decidedly interesting woman.


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