How To Use Riband In A Sentence
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Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks.
Kenilworth
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Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband, then the only ornament or cover which young unmarried women wore on their head, and as she adjusted the scarlet tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Screaming at the top of her voice, whilst her unshawled and dusky shoulders, as well as the soiled ribands of her dirty cap, were gently fanned by the sea-breeze, she commanded the men to return to their duty, in a volume of vociferation that seemed perfectly inexhaustible.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country
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The other, mighty Whistler Mountain, which will hold the blue riband ski race events, is facing foreclosure and the likelihood that it will be auctioned off to the highest bidder as the Olympics are under way.
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When the Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1957, he quoted Robert Browning: ‘Just for a handful of silver he left us, just for a riband to stick in his coat.’
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Olga did not win the all-round championship, the blue riband event.
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Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down.
The French Revolution
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The Hertfordshire‑based rider emulated Michael Whitaker's success in last year's blue riband event by defeating a top‑class field packed with fellow Olympic contenders.
Sport news in brief
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The wide concave of cloud, of the monotonous hue of dull pewter, formed an unbroken hood over the level from horizon to horizon; beneath it, reflecting its wan lustre, was the glazed high-road which stretched, hedgeless and ditchless, past a directing-post where another road joined it, and on to the less regular ground beyond, lying like a riband unrolled across the scene, till it vanished over the furthermost undulation.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Olga did not win the all-round championship, the blue riband event.
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Some betrayed patients, institutions, and colleagues in the search for ribands to stick in their coats.
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Olga did not win the all-round championship, the blue riband event.
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Breaking all my usual rules for watching the blue riband, I decided not to visit the bookie's premises, but to watch the racing in a hostelry with which I am not unacquainted.
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The Gold Cup, the blue-riband race at U.K. horse-racing's Cheltenham Festival, features one of the most eagerly anticipated showdowns in its 86-year history Friday when Kauto Star and Denman renew hostilities.
Tip of the Day
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The scope of Wiggins's ambition is illustrated further by him now accepting that the twin peaks of the Tour and the Olympic time trial mean he will almost certainly be forced to relinquish another medal opportunity in the team pursuit – the blue riband event of the track.
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It was eerie to watch the contour of the arc break, die away into a delicate pallor and reillumine in a travelling riband.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
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Bobsleigh remains one of the blue-riband winter sports, a pursuit beloved by daredevils and requiring immense co-ordination between the driver at the front and the human ballast to the rear.
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Single sculls is where the real individual glory lies, the blue-riband event.
Torching the myth of Sir Steve Redgrave's Olympic supremacy | Barney Ronay
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I am inclined to think that the event will be that Lord H. will now remain longer than he before proposed, in order that he may not appear to be driven out by clamour, &c. Sir G. Yonge is to have the red riband, which is comical enough.
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Since, in an egalitarian society, there are few opportunities to wear crosses and ribands, the Order of the British Empire has begun to sell ties.
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Their application at GS31-32 is partly aimed at disease control, (and in Consort and Riband type varieties it is important that a good triazole is included in the spray to give good eradicant activity against Septoria tritici).
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That's promised to be a triband handset using Microsoft's HTML browser.
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The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
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The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband, and sundry pairs of shoes more or less down at heel, to make no mention of crumbs in the beds; the airiest costumes had been worn on these festive occasions; and the daring Miss Ferdinand had even surprised the company with a sprightly solo on the comb – and – curlpaper, until suffocated in her own pillow by two flowing – haired executioners.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Olga did not win the all-round championship, the blue riband event.
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This season he has three top-10 finishes and has earned €365,331, with a fifth place in May at Wentworth's PGA Championship, the European Tour's blue riband event, his best result since Turnberry.
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His quote is, of course, from that fine poem The Lost Leader in which Robert Browning decries Wordsworth's desertion of liberal causes and his selling-out to the Tory establishment and values "Just for a handful of silver he left us,/ Just for a riband to stick in his coat...
Letters: Electoral lessons for the Lib Dems and Labour
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• Sharp drop in betting and TV viewing for Epsom Classic • Bookmakers call for blue riband event to move to Friday
Fears as off-course interest in Derby is unworthy of scintillating Workforce
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The fourth class (officers of the British Empire and Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order) and fifth class (members of the British Empire and Royal Victorian Order) wear their respective badges on medal ribands or bows (women).
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Captain Christy, ridden by Bobby Beasley, remains the last novice to have won chasing's blue riband event.
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'I hear,' wrote Walpole of what he calls the coronation at Oxford, 'my Lord Westmoreland's own retinue was all be-James'd with true-blue ribands.'
Life Of Johnson
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I think you are wrong, notwithstanding, Bluewater, in talking of refusing the riband, which is so justly your due, for a dozen different acts.
The Two Admirals
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It is also possible that one among 25 unraced three-year-olds could yet enter the blue riband equation.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Tis a gurt shame, that's what 'tis," said Primrose, resentful both for her friend's riband and her own edging; "and I'd get my Willie to make her buy new, only 'tis no good asking paupers for money, because, even if they was to be sold up, all their sticks and cloam wouldn't fetch enough for a yard o 'this riband.
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly
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[This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ballad, or poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.] "Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks.
Kenilworth
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For a long time he stared out across the lake at the silver riband of water falling over the cliffs on the far shore.
A TIME OF WAR
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Spain's previous best medal haul in track and field was at the 1992 Games in Barcelona when they won four medals, including Fermin Cacho's gold in the blue riband event of the 1,500 metres.
