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Example sentences for "stockinged"

Lexicographically close words:
stockholder; stockholders; stockily; stockinet; stocking; stockingless; stockings; stockins; stockjobbers; stockman
  1. Make your brothers priests, Paul shall be porporate, and Girolamo step Red-stockinged in the presence when you choose, But save one Franceschini for the age!

  2. It's never too late to bend," retorted Miss Panton, still austere; her glance resting with deep disapproval upon the neatly stockinged leg which Caroline displayed.

  3. The brown-stockinged captain and quarter-back was shouting incessantly: "Steady now, fellows!

  4. The two went down together on the seven yards, the blue-stockinged youth vainly striving to squirm nearer to the line, Decker holding for all he was worth.

  5. By the liquid smoothness of that gallop, by the white-stockinged forefoot, by something about his head, and above all by what she knew of his cunning, she had recognized Alcatraz.

  6. Possibly Beaufort, who was her match in daring, would have succeeded in bringing about a fusion; but his grand house and silk-stockinged footmen were an obstacle to informal sociability.

  7. She would wait for the approach of the next one--in the stillness she could hear it coming a long way off--then she would run down the passage in her stockinged feet to Ingram's door and open it just as the noise was loudest.

  8. Rubbing smartly in turn each welt against her stockinged calf.

  9. And then, at last, they heard their father throw down his boots and tramp upstairs in his stockinged feet.

  10. Then, in his stockinged feet, he went reluctantly upstairs.

  11. Both children hushed into silence as they heard the approaching thud of their father's stockinged feet, and shrank as he entered.

  12. Parkinson shuffled over to meet the attack, the ball was snapped and the quarter was running back with it, while, far off at the left, a blue-stockinged end was racing down the field with upraised arm.

  13. Then he sat down with stockinged feet held in the radiance of an open Franklin stove, and mused over some old log-books that he liked to thumb occasionally for the sake of adding new comfort to a fit of shore contentment.

  14. He stooped and strove to look under the canvas, but he saw only a pair of sturdy, red-stockinged legs.

  15. A victory over Yale at checkers was quite as important in Barclay's estimation as a triumph over the blue-stockinged football warriors.

  16. They were past the middle of the field now, and once more Lane struck the blue-stockinged right guard for a gain.

  17. Ned took one step forward, and ball and bat met with a sound like a pistol-shot, and a pair of purple-stockinged legs were flashing toward first.

  18. But the blue-stockinged runner was not done, and the cries of the Crimson well-wishers were stilled as the little space between the two runners grew perceptibly less.

  19. She stood looking at me, a smile flitting over her features, her stockinged foot extended, toe down, serving to balance her on her high-heeled single shoe.

  20. Then at once I caught a glimpse of her stockinged foot, the toe of which slightly protruded from beneath her ball gown.

  21. Sally couldn't tell whether the stockinged foot belonged to the under or the upper twin.

  22. Horry had got up, and was standing on one leg, with his stockinged foot against his other knee.

  23. After a particularly disastrous fumble, taking the ball at their own 35-yard line, Burns' Maroon-stockinged warriors began a great advance.

  24. The discovery of an unmistakable footprint in a more marshy spot, which could only have been imprinted by a stockinged foot, completed my friend's triumph.

  25. Except that the man was wandering about the country-side, gathering wild flowers, in his stockinged soles," I pointed out.

  26. Joe, who had seated himself tiredly on the wet sand and was digging his stockinged heels into it, sneered at Mr. Crusoe.

  27. Somehow, standing there with his sturdy, golf-stockinged legs well apart and his loose trousers pulled out at the sides, he reminded Tom of a clown at a circus, and Tom made the mistake of grinning.

  28. From the farther side a blue-sleeved and blue-stockinged youth advanced to meet them.

  29. Frantic blue-stockinged youths dropped mercilessly down upon him and drove the breath from his body, in his ears was a wild and terrific clamour of frenzied joy and faintly a whistle shrilled.

  30. Fastened together so as to form a tube, covered with red sateen, and supported by scarlet-stockinged legs, the effect would be pleasingly true to life.

  31. At the door of the little wine shop Stefanone was seated on one of the rush stools, his hat tilted over his eyes, and his white-stockinged legs crossed.

  32. Leaning back against the wall and tipping the stool, he swung his white-stockinged legs thoughtfully.

  33. I stood there in my stockinged feet as if I had been in a mosque, but no one remarked my bootless condition.

  34. This was dainty Rosalie, her silk-stockinged ankles swinging wildly, as she sat upon the porch rail.

  35. Her father, in his shirt sleeves, was sitting in the most conspicuous part of the little veranda with his stockinged feet on the railing, smoking his pipe and reading the newspaper.

  36. She paused a moment on the threshold, and then opening the door of Mitsos's cabin, went in, knowing all the time that the tread of the stockinged feet was only a thought of her own brain made audible inwardly.

  37. Other noises were less explicable; surely some one was moving about in the cabin next hers, the cabin Mitsos used to occupy, some one who went to and fro in stockinged or bare feet, but with heavy tread.

  38. She marches slowly, playing her imaginary pipe, and one by one they all fall in behind her, padding round the barn in their stockinged feet.

  39. At the end of that time entered a hulking, obese Babu whose stockinged legs shook with fat, and Kim opened on him with a shower of wayside chaff.


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