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Example sentences for "hoopskirt"

Lexicographically close words:
hoopes; hooping; hoopoe; hoopoes; hoops; hoopskirts; hoor; hoorah; hooray; hoos
  1. Just as we reached the beginnings of the canal we saw squatting on the bank an old crone contemplating, it seemed, the forlorn remains of a hoopskirt which dangled from a pole before her, half in and half out of water.

  2. The hoopskirt fisher-dames were just where we had left them some hours before, and were still too much absorbed in doing nothing to waste time looking at us.

  3. The rubber buffer on his hoopskirt was merely an added safeguard.

  4. A chromium-bright hoopskirt with a turret on top.

  5. In their fatigue outfit our mothers laid aside the hoopskirt and tucked up what was left.

  6. When the hoopskirt first came, it looked as if Paris had sent out the greatest of all the absurdities.

  7. Over this was stretched the hoopskirt and over it a sheet, and, behold a beautiful, cozy Sibley tent for two or three children to sleep under.

  8. One thing in the management of the hoopskirt the men never could understand.

  9. After a while they mustered courage enough to return and find that the woman was dead and her hoopskirt had been weighted down by the soil and as soon as this was sufficiently removed, it flew up with all its fearful elasticity.

  10. Also, there was a hoopskirt curled upon the floor, and an open barrel with a stowage of books--a novel or two of E.

  11. It would be a nice inquiry whether the hoopskirt was not introduced--it was midway in the eighteenth century, I think--at the time of the first budding of romantic sentiment.

  12. An old hoopskirt came with it, and Betsy laughed and threw it away.

  13. The thing frightened Hank, who had never seen a hoopskirt before, and he kept a good distance away from it.

  14. THE ATTIC In the Attic The Calendar in the Attic The Hoopskirt The Little Chair In the Dark Corner The Toy Cabinet The Yardstick PART III.


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