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Example sentences for "hood"

Lexicographically close words:
hony; hoo; hooam; hooap; hooch; hooded; hoodie; hoodlike; hoodlum; hoodlums
  1. Sew hood to cape, starting about 2 inches from beading at beg of cape, gathering across leaving 2 inches at end.

  2. Even the baby is thought of when it comes to knitting--perhaps more so than the adult--for here is baby's early fall cape and hood for those evenings when it is just a bit too cool for baby to be without some sort of covering.

  3. HOOD Starting at first half of neck edge, with No.

  4. Sew band to bottom of hood gathering hood to fit snug, leave ends to tie.

  5. Lord HOOD sailed from England, on an expedition against Corsica.

  6. She, drawing back in her uncertainty, was captured by strong arms, a hood was thrown over her head, and she was lifted and carried in hot haste to a chaise, and helped therein without much formality.

  7. Eastward within call lay six warships, but Lieutenant Hood wanted the steamer for his own prize, and started after her without calling for aid.

  8. The Hawk's men were at their quarters, and when Lieutenant Hood saw his prize slipping from his grasp his forward six-pounders began to speak.

  9. After two hours' fruitless fighting the Hood went back to the fleet for re-enforcements.

  10. Lieutenant Hood was game, however, and the light-draught Hawk kept hammering away with her rapid-fire guns and burning signals for help from the bridge.

  11. Lieutenant Hood was after him in an instant.

  12. Lieutenant Hood had taken his destroyer yacht far in under the guns to watch the western approach to the harbor.

  13. Colonel Hood has water boiled every night and next morning we put ice in it to drink.

  14. Thus saying, he turned and cantered away; and on looking round to her maid, Clemence perceived that Maria had drawn the hood of her grey cloak over her head.

  15. Hood took the remnants of his army into Mississippi where he was relieved from command by his own request and retired minus the arm he left at Gettysburg and the leg he left at Chickamauga.

  16. Grant had taken Petersburg; Thomas had annihilated the Confederate forces under Hood along the Mississippi River; Sherman had swept through Georgia and overrun the Carolinas.

  17. Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with his maid Marian, Sup and bowse with horn and can.

  18. I am a bad hand at depicting a hero properly so called, and have an unfortunate propensity for the dubious characters of borderers, buccaneers, Highland robbers, and all others of a Robin-Hood description.

  19. The sots had a distinctive dress, its |306| most characteristic feature being a hood with asses' ears, probably a relic of the primitive days when the heads of sacrificed animals were worn by festal worshippers.

  20. This rock is a great point of attraction to ramblers from the vales below, and is called by them "Robin Hood Bed.

  21. After the struggle for the possession of Little Round Top, the other Confederate brigades of Hood and McLaws advanced rapidly.

  22. Longstreet was directed to place the division of McLaws and Hood on the right of Hill, partially enveloping the enemy's left, which he was to drive in.

  23. With these troops Hancock checked the advance of the Confederate brigades of Barksdale, Wilcox, Perry, and Wright, while Sykes checked the advance of Hood and McLaws.

  24. Still Constance kept upon the deck, and drawing her hood over her head, strove to fix herself, amidst the pitching of the vessel, by clinging to the binnacle, which in ships of that day was often supported by a couple of oblique bars.

  25. I have lost both hood and jesses in that foul creek.

  26. The Wife discovering her Husband in the Hood of their Serving-maid.

  27. To this he agreed; whereupon she begged him to put her hood upon his head and to continue bolting whilst she was away, in order that her mistress might still hear the noise of the bolter.

  28. How the wife of one of the King's Equerries surprised her husband muffled in the hood of their servant-maid, and bolting meal in her stead.

  29. Thus in his grey gown and hood was Waldo committed alive to his grave, and the brethren, chanting a requiem, returned to the Priory.

  30. From their hood (capuche) they received the popular name of Capuchins.

  31. The French hood was still worn by citizens’ wives.

  32. French hood, a form of hood worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries, having the front band depressed over the forehead, and raised in folds or loops over the temples.

  33. Be ſilent then: “falſhood commends not truth”.

  34. Why there are of your Brother-hood in the City, I'le undertake, shall kill a man for twenty.

  35. But after they had danced for some time, the lady's hood fell back, disclosing a tight fitting black cap on top of which the tower of fair hair was mingled with locks of gray hair combed up from behind.

  36. As a sort of crowning satire, the face in particular was surrounded by a broad frill, spotted with bunches of pink satin ribbon, and farther encased in a white satin hood of elaborate workmanship and fringes.

  37. Pitt's intention is to place his brother at the head of that department, giving him Sir Charles Middleton and Hood for assistants; and prevailing with Mulgrave, if possible, to accept the Comptrollership of the Navy.

  38. It has, therefore, been determined that Lord Chatham should take the Admiralty for the present, with no other alteration in the Board except substituting Lord Hood instead of Brett.

  39. The election is not yet over, nor will Lord Hood decline the poll.

  40. Alexander Hood is to have the red riband, and not Trevor.

  41. He has a cap or hood with asses' ears, and a row of bells for the crest; in his left hand he carries a bauble, and over his right arm hangs a cloth or napkin.

  42. It is by no means clear that at any time Robin Hood and his companions were constituent characters in the morris.

  43. Sometimes we have a lady of the May, simply, with a friar Tuck; and in later times a Maid Marian remained without even a Robin Hood or a friar.

  44. We have seen that the story of Robin Hood was, at a very early period, of a dramatic cast; and it was perfectly natural that a principal character should be transferred from one drama to another.

  45. The introduction of Robin Hood into the celebration of May probably suggested the addition of a king or lord of the May.

  46. Maid Marian not only officiated as the paramour of Robin Hood in the May games, but as the queen or lady of the May, who seems to have been introduced long before the games of Robin Hood.

  47. The hood was not always surmounted with the cocks comb, in lieu of which a single bell and occasionally more appeared.

  48. The May-games of Robin Hood appear to have been principally instituted for the encouragement of archery, and were generally accompanied by morris dancers, who, nevertheless, formed but a subordinate part of the ceremony.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.