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Example sentences for "wore"

Lexicographically close words:
wordlessly; wordly; words; wordum; wordy; wored; worf; work; workable; workaday
  1. So, very frequently when Barrington came down from London and she drifted out, as if by accident, to the rectory, she wore the mask of reserve and sullenness, and did not show to best advantage.

  2. When the adventurous gentleman had clambered down, it was seen that he wore his shabby spats and that his mustaches were pointed with wax.

  3. He looked slim as a girl in his evening-dress; his thin, rather handsome face, wore a weak, inconsequential expression.

  4. You wore your touch-me-not-manners, Janey.

  5. He was a little surprised by her quiet beauty; his surprise wore off as he got used to her.

  6. They wore fluffy gowns and had fluffy manners; even their voices were fluffy.

  7. Then he saw that the maddest of the mad wore a dark blue badge.

  8. Jehane still wore mourning--deepest black, with white frills at her wristbands and a white ruff about her neck.

  9. It blinked at you as though it wore spectacles.

  10. Probably he was a portly merchant, accompanied by a dame who wore patches.

  11. She had learnt that his father was a self-made, ambitious man, who wore side-whiskers and hoped to die a baronet.

  12. For the rest, she was a High Church woman, wore elastic-sided boots and never permitted anything to be placed on a Bible.

  13. She wore presents of jewelry which her husband had given her--so she said.

  14. Her face was tender and wore an amused expression.

  15. The seats of the chairs wore linen covers to prevent their upholstery from getting shabby.

  16. She wore no hat and her hair was glossy with rain.

  17. And he wore his gown--over his pyjamas--very effective.

  18. Did you notice that smoke colored georgette she wore on Sunday?

  19. I wore a large coarse woollen pea-jacket, which the man was very desirous to obtain, offering for it a fine horse.

  20. I have seen the coat which he wore on that occasion, pierced in seven different places by the lances of the enemy.

  21. Instead of the hunter's dress, he wore a faded military uniform; sandals were laced on his broad legs, and a kind of short trowsers hung from his waist.

  22. Beyond Milan, the country wore the aspect of a ruder devastation; and though every thing seemed now quiet, the repose was like that of death, spread over features, which retain the impression of the last convulsions.

  23. But when, after a while, they made out that their coats over their breastplates were red, whereas all the king's people wore white ones, they knew that they were enemies.

  24. Romulus, on the other hand, adopted their long shields, and changed his own armor and that of all the Romans, who before wore round targets of the Argive pattern.

  25. And then their arms, which for their riches and beauty they wore with pleasure, becoming light and easy to them with constant use, they longed for nothing more than to try them with an enemy, and fight in earnest.

  26. They wore helmets, made to resemble the heads and jaws of wild beasts, and other strange shapes, and heightening these with plumes of feathers, they made themselves appear taller than they were.

  27. And Eratosthenes also says that he kept the poison in a hollow ring, and that that ring was the bracelet which he wore about his arm.

  28. The belt which he also wore in all engagements, was of much richer workmanship than the rest of his armor.

  29. For he wore out the flourishing power of Mithridates by delay and time, and crushed that of Tigranes by haste; being one of the rare examples of generals who made use of delay for active achievement, and speed for security.

  30. Her dress was scanty; she was bare-legged, but wore a pair of old unlaced boots, such as are usually worn by ploughmen.

  31. His face now wore an expression of absolute vacuity.

  32. You know they always wore pink and blue silks.

  33. His visitor wore the gorgeous Chinese dress, including the queue; but the figure and face were not Mongolian, and the smiling countenance was not in keeping with the dignified solemnity of a Chinaman.

  34. He wore the uniform of a Major General in the United States Air Force.

  35. This one wore the silver leaf of a lieutenant colonel!

  36. He wore a cross, irritable expression and avoided all conversation.

  37. He seemed to be a congenial, open-faced man who wore his feelings in plain sight.

  38. That they were people who wore good clothes was my predominant impression.

  39. I wore an old sealskin coat, worn bearskin trousers, stockings of hare-skin showing above torn seal boots.

  40. The stupor of the days of travel wore away, and I began to see myself as in a mirror.

  41. At first my imagination evoked a more glowing wonder than in reality existed; as the hours wore on, and as the wants of my body asserted themselves, I began to see the vacant spaces with a disillusionizing eye.

  42. Later these clothes were replaced by new clothes given me by Governor Kraul, some of which I wore on my trip to Copenhagen.

  43. After the first thrills of victory, the glamor wore away as we rested and worked.

  44. So thoroughly delighted were we with these goggles that later we wore them even in igloos while asleep, with the double object of screening the strong light which passes through the eyelids and of keeping the forehead warm.

  45. The Usbeck Tartar chiefs wore (perhaps do wear) plumes of herons' feathers in their turbans; and the herons' plume of the Ottoman sultan is only a remnant of the costume in which their ancestors descended from Central Asia.

  46. He wore an air of being deeply wretched and ashamed.

  47. He was an old horse and there was something about his eyes and his forelock which created the impression that he wore spectacles.

  48. They wore double-breasted coats, and faded yellow sashes were wound under their black leather sword belts.

  49. One soldier wore the little blue cap of the Northern infantry, with corps emblem and regimental number; one wore a great slouch hat with a wide hole in the crown; and the other wore no hat at all.

  50. The men of the battery wore white duck trousers, which somehow emphasized their legs; and when they ran and crowded in little groups at the bidding of the shouting officers, it was more impressive than usual to the infantry.

  51. But Garnet, amid all this business depression upon which March looked down from his sick-room, wore envy on his broad breast like a decoration.

  52. She wore a glad smile as she said: "I've got more money with me than I ought to be carrying, anyhow.

  53. She wore a tawdry hat that only helped to betray her general slovenliness.

  54. He noted that she also wore the silvery-gray uniform of the elect.

  55. I said it years ago--when you were a boy and I wore muslin gowns above my knees.

  56. She wore white at dinner, with a great bunch of wild iris that Crawford had brought her.

  57. He wore his canvas shooting-clothes like a soldier, and handled his gun and his dogs with a careless ease that might have appeared slovenly had the results been less precise.

  58. She had, as a child, large dark blue eyes, which wore as a rule a look of watchful anxiety--put there by brother Tom.

  59. The shrunken yellow face wore the gaunt eager look of one who had died the slow death of starvation.

  60. Moreover, sailor-fashion, he wore a knife in a sheath at the back of his belt.

  61. The sun wheeled his silvery dance along the waters; the day wore on;--and still no sign of the invaders.

  62. Her clothing was likewise a mass of rags, and the cap that she wore was of the coarsest materials.

  63. Thereupon the greatest army that ever wore gaiters, and left its footprints all over the globe, is brought together, and drawn up with such peculiar cleverness, that the Emperor passed a million men in review, all in a single day.

  64. Her attire somewhat recalled her former quality of ladies' maid, for she wore a pretty cap, a pink dress, a silk apron, and white stockings.

  65. She wore a gown of cambric, covered with narrow pink stripes, and cut low at the throat, so as to display a muslin chemisette.

  66. Then he led his guest up to a pale, slight young man of middle height, who wore spectacles, and was also dressed in black.

  67. He wore a blue coat in fairly clean condition, the square side-pocket flaps stuck out above his hips, and the skirts of the coats hung loose in front, so that a white-flowered waistcoat was visible.

  68. Benassis, suddenly discovering that his companion wore such a pensive expression that it seemed as though his attention was wandering.

  69. If he wore at his buttonhole the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor, it was because the unanimous voice of his regiment had singled him out as the man who best deserved to receive it after the battle of Borodino.

  70. It is quite as well that I wore a mask, and came here myself in search of information concerning you, for now I know that I must hold my tongue.

  71. He wore a red woolen bonnet, exactly like the Phrygian cap in which Liberty is tricked out, a piece of head-gear in common use in this country.

  72. No one but Flossy wore such a wrap as that.

  73. His face wore the same look now--interested, alert, but at rest.

  74. The freshness and novelty of this journey wore away before the long summer afternoon began to wane; the cars were crowded and uncomfortable, and the cinders flew about in as trying a way as cinders can.

  75. The curtains at the setting-room windows is all frayed-like and mighty near wore through in spots.

  76. I can tell by his looks that he ain't got no hope of success on my part, but he's so plumb wore out from worrying that he ain't got the spirit for to resist me.

  77. And with every Baron were his particular retainers; but varying in number up to the three hundred that wore the Stafford Knot and ruffled themselves as scarce second even to the veterans of the King himself.

  78. He wore no armor, but in his rich doublet and super-tunic of dark blue velvet with the baudikin stripes on the sleeve, he made as handsome and gallant a figure as one was wont to see, even in those days of chivalry.

  79. Believe me, wore I the Crown, these two women would give me more concern than all the nobles in my kingdom.

  80. So he wore ship and turned back to Brittany, making no effort to aid those who had proclaimed him at risk of life and fortune.

  81. So was he sure, he said, to be in favor with whomever wore the crown.

  82. She wore the fancy dress of the tymbestere, a red bodice slashed and spangled, and a red skirt that came midway between the knee and the ground, disclosing a pair of trim and shapely ankles and small feet.

  83. Yet they were glad to be admitted to the service of one who wore the Boar and they donned corselet and casquetel with eagerness and haste--as willing now to fight against the Cistercian as, an hour since, they were ready to defend him.

  84. Saving a thin corselet of steel beneath his doublet, he wore no armor; and as his antagonist was, outwardly at least, entirely unprotected, a single stroke of the heavy weapons would likely decide the matter.

  85. She was evidently agitated by a deep emotion, for her breast heaved visibly beneath the worn merino shawl she wore over her faded gingham dress, and her hands trembled slightly as she folded them on her lap.

  86. His physiognomy expressed both intelligence and wit, but often wore a mask of supercilious impertinence when addressing persons of the same stamp as the usurer.

  87. He had extended the mist-cap he wore over my head.

  88. And once upon a time I met a little smiling child, who played with a cross of palm branches, and wore a beamy coronet around his golden locks.

  89. She came late--she who was the empress of the scene, and wore the emblem of sovereignty on her brow.

  90. The children were dressed like miniature men and women; often the girls wore aprons, as did the women on occasions; these were narrow and edged with lace.

  91. They wore the typical garments of the period for men and women in England.

  92. Broadcloth gowns of russet tones were worn by those who could not afford silks and satins; sometimes women wore doublets and jerkins of black and browns.

  93. For dress occasions the men wore black velvet jerkins with white ruffs, like those in the authentic portrait of Edward Winslow.

  94. They slept on damp bedding and wore musty clothes; they lacked exercise and water for drink or cleanliness.

  95. The men wore doublets and jerkins of browns and greens, and cloaks with red and purple linings.

  96. They wore caps shine de coons eye and red caps and red garments.

  97. I never wore a stocking until I was twenty-two and my hair did not grow out and get combed until I was twenty-two.

  98. I was fourteen years old then and still wore a long shirt-like dress.

  99. I hired out to cook in Mississippi but I wash and iron and work in the field till I bout wore out.

  100. Some of the boys wore dresses till they was twelve or fifteen years old.

  101. When the feet wore out on socks and stockings, they would unravel them, save the good thread, and reknit the foot or toe or heel.

  102. She wore a shawl big as a sheet purty nigh all time and smoked a pipe.

  103. Some wore white sheets and black dresses on white horses.

  104. I have wore four names, Alexander, Adams, Morgan, and Tabon.

  105. Summer I went barefooted and wore one piece.

  106. But it is not to be denied that the 1500, apprehending that the governor might attempt to play the tyrant, since his conduct had already been insidious and unjust, wore on their hats bunches of hemp.

  107. During his three years in Nashville, in particular, he dressed in black broadcloth frock-coat and waistcoat and black doeskin trousers, and wore a silk hat.

  108. He wore his white trousers of that happiest of old days-- the 'white ducks' Aminta and Selina remembered.

  109. Her grand-daughters won the satisfied look if they wore a combination touching his memory.

  110. Yes, he did; he always wore them; but now it's a frock-coat instead of a jacket.

  111. The buff waistcoat he wore in the engagement, pierced by the bullet which took his life, is preserved as a trophy in the arsenal at Vienna.

  112. But soon the novelty wore away, and his constitutional despondency returned with accumulated power.

  113. On such occasions she wore a coffee-brown frock, with a collar reaching to the chin, and sleeves which hid the very tips of her fingers.

  114. He wore a gold-embroidered doublet buckled round with a stately girdle; his sleeves were trimmed with gold lace right up to the elbows.

  115. The young wife was perfectly happy, not so much because she actually wore the silk dress, as because Valentine's mother thought her worthy to wear it.

  116. Valentine wore a breastplate, a helmet, and greaves, but Ignatius was clad in mail from top to toe, both in front and behind; he was plainly of opinion that the back is also vulnerable.

  117. It was a noble, beautiful lady who once made a brave show therein, and she only wore it twice.

  118. The man who now entered also wore a plumed biretta on his head, but it was scarlet.

  119. With proud humility, she wore over her wondrously beautiful tresses the matron's coif, which showed that all this loveliness already had a master.

  120. He wore a brown Polish jacket with long sleeves, a broad, buckled girdle, and long jack-boots.

  121. His powerful body was dressed in a scarlet coat, and over it he wore a long scarlet mantle.


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