How To Use Shawl In A Sentence
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Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat.
The Devil's Disciple
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In his dreams she wore a blue satin frock with a burgundy shawl, or a pink silk pelisse, or a white crinoline.
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When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders.
Cytherea
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She put on a shawl and told Denver and Beloved to do likewise.
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And besides, Missy, what are you doing out here without your shawl?
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In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog.
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Her clothes were long and loose, the shawl brightly colored and rimmed with tassels.
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It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries.
The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The audience at a women's meeting last Thursday in a Baghdad hotel wore all manner of clothes, from Western style to headscarves and long shawls.
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Fur hat, fur bag, fur garment, fur material, fur coat, fur knitted, knitwear, fur scarf and shawl, feather, feather product.
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Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
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But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
Wuthering Heights
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She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window.
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He conferred again, and I tried to picture the other side of the screen, with the Rani, sharp-faced and thin in her silk shawl, muttering her instructions to him, and puzzled to myself what the odd persistent noise was that I could hear above the soft pipes of the hidden orchestra - a gentle, rhythmic swishing from beyond the screen, as though a huge fan were being used.
Fiancée
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Get a warm shawl, she'll freeze in this cold night.
Heidi
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-- [MS.] [103] The calpac is the solid cap or centre part of the head-dress; the shawl is wound round it, and forms the turban.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3
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The clothing included a black-and-cream herringbone tweed blazer with purple-and- gold piping, a heritage white batiste lace-trimmed blouse, and a cedar mélange shawl collar button front cardigan, as listed on the line sheet provided for the young'uns in the front row.
Tweens Take the Runway
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She wore a beautiful silk shawl around her shoulders.
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The exhibition will showcase a special range of shawls, stoles, garments, sarees, scarves, caps, gloves, sweaters, durries and fabric in embroidery, mirror work, weaves and natural dyes.
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It folded very thin, reminding her of the giant shawl from Turkey her aunt had, which could be bunched up and could still be threaded through the center of a wedding ring.
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“If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders.
Why Afghans Don't Know Their Ages
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In the very last pew, on the aisle, sat an eager old colored woman -- one of those typical "mammies" now so seldom seen -- in an old-fashioned bonnet and shawl.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
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Miss Howitt's dress was in the height of fashion; blue silk spencer over a white round dress with several flounces at the hem, complemented by a yellow paisley shawl draped over her shoulders.
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
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And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder thin and slazy, and checkered shawls had gone out of fashion, and the black looked some as if it would fade with washin ', and the white wuzn't over clear, and the colors wuzn't no ways becomin' to her complexion, and etcetery, etcetery.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
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For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
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In fact, Iranian Jews use the Hebrew word "tzitzit" to describe the Jewish prayer shawl.
Reports of Ahmadinegad's Jewish past, a hoax
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This passion helped the export of prized Kashmir woollen caftans and shawls to various countries.
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The government of Indian-administered Kashmir is to launch a legal challenge to a ban on the weaving and trading of the world's most expensive shahtoosh shawl.
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Khadi shawls with nakshi kantha are also very popular in the Western countries which are available in vibrant colors and fancy patterns and designs.
KHADI SHAWL
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She hugs a huge cashmere shawl around her as though to suggest the subject is closed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Light will cast the shadow of the stripes onto the sidewalk, creating a sense of occasion, welcoming visitors, and evoking the fringe of a tallit prayer shawl, known as the tzitzit.
A Synagogue for the Young
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But this wasn't just any pareo, you understand, this was from I Pezzi Dipinti www.ipezzidipinti.com , the exclusive New York-based company selling hand-loomed shawls and textiles from South Asia and Italy, with the goal of supporting the artisanal traditions.
Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins
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“If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders.
Why Afghans Don't Know Their Ages
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The shawl was in a box in her trunk.
Anne of Green Gables
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Made from soft cotton, it features a shawl collar, sash tie with belt loops and side pouch pockets.
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The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries.
Half a Dozen Girls
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Even this old, tattered pashmina shawl of mine will not help matters.
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But of the elderly women who came there, not many had so far changed the fashion of their youth as to cover the white "mutch" with anything but a handkerchief in the summertime, or with a shawl, or with the hood of the mantle of scarlet or grey duffel, when the weather was cold.
Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
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It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Indians stoles, shawls and textiles found their way into English homes and Indian wools and cottons became a part of European dress.
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She was wearing a black gown with a black shawl on her neck and a pair of black evening gloves.
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The incident of sending a present of clothing is curiously like the tale about a certain English envoy, whose proprieties were sadly ruffled in the Nair country, when a lady sent him a grand shawl with an intimation of her choice.
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
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It's an ancient, crippled man, well covered up with blankets and shawls, his head muffled in a scarf, despite the mildness of the weather.
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You now return to the large hall where you first undressed, wrap in woollen shawls, and recline on a divan.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Ritual Jewish art includes beautifully crafted menorahs, wine cups, candlesticks, tallilot (prayer shawls), and other ceremonial objects.
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I should think you would be very unhappy with that shawl.
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Many of the dresses feature sheer overlays and striking asymmetric and fishtail hems, with matching shawls included in the price.
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After that I'm going to have a go at knitting a lace shawl for the new baby.
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Mrs Woodford waddled about in the most valuable shawls; mandarins and josses nodded over her chimneys; and pagodas and japans ornamented her rooms.
The Old Manor House
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At this critical moment one of the ladies took off her basquine and skirt, cut them into strips, got shawls and other articles of clothing from the rest of the party, tied them together, fastened a stone to the rope thus formed, and let it down to Mr. Ruggles, who, taking hold of it, walked slowly up the bank.
The New York Tribune Gives
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She winked at him and left the living room, pausing briefly to readjust the shawl one more time.
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Away down in my heart I knew what was coming, and I watched the woman loosen her tartan shawl and lay her infant in a neuk among the hedge roots.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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'Appen we're nearer the Fleet, anyroad, an' they ain't too curious there," she replied, and stood up, the pamphlets vanishing somewhere inside her shawls.
The Serpent's Shadow
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After last year's Convention of women, I saw an article in a Unitarian paper edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of woman's rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in any thing in public, he said, "Public woman unbonnated and unshawled before the public gaze, and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?
An Address On Woman's Rights
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Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
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She folded her shawl over her arm and enjoyed the brightness of the sun and the clear blue of the sky.
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As far as I know, ‘Auntie ‘did nothing all day but sit in a rocker and crochet multi-colored shawls and comforters and stuff like that.’
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The wildlife zoologist Richard Harris says the poaching was as vital to the local economy as opium cultivation in Afghanistan or coca growing in Colombia.27 Just as in those cases, the blame for the illegal trade ultimately rested with rich Western consumers who buy expensive shahtoosh shawls.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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And now Caroline had to usher them upstairs, to help them to unshawl, smooth their hair, and make themselves smart; to reconduct them to the drawing-room, to distribute amongst them books of engravings, or odd things purchased from the Jew-basket.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Henry Bellows commented in the Christian Inquirer, ‘Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze, and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?’
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Then a gust of wind blew this royal lady's shawl across a brook.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wrapped her shawl closer about her.
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This being wore a gown of brocade, dyed bright blue, full-tinted as the gentianella flower, and covered with satin foliage in a large pattern; over the gown a costly shawl, gorgeously bordered, and so large for her, that its many-coloured fringe swept the floor.
Villette
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He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat.
War in Context
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This constant interactive process between weavers and designers has resulted in the production of a wide range of Ahimsa silk products, including shawls, stoles and garments.
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Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well.
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Spread over the Persian carpet was a large shawl on which stood two thrones.
Times, Sunday Times
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A delicate white lace shawl rests around her shoulders, draping down the length of her body.
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Shawl pulled tightly about her frail shoulders, blushed by fever, she was standing in front of the widow's walk windows, desperately hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband's returning sails.
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The doll wore a frilly, pale pink dress with a lacy shawl, but as I looked down the line, they were all dressed similarly.
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When fully drest, a Lady might have kept a Deformity out of Sight by means of a Muff or a Shawl, something impossible in the Course of ordinary domestick Life.
What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host?
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The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor.
Bringing It All Back Home
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About her shoulders was a shawl that seemed at first an ashy gray, but upon closer inspection was revealed to be interwoven with silvery threads and beads, rippling with a watery sheen as she moved.
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Now the label offers womenswear, gifts and accessories – simple, soft striped shawls and dresses.
Liya Kebede: star of Africa
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She joined him shortly afterwards, shuddering and knotting the shawl at her throat as the wintry breeze hit her warm skin.
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Smooth water, sandy coves, and shelfy landings tempted comfortable jobs; and any man owning a boat that would carry a sail as big as a shawl might smuggle, with heed of the weather, and audacity.
Mary Anerley
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_Christian Inquirer_, a Unitarian paper, edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows, of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of Woman's Rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in anything in public, he said: "Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
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I keep thinking of the grandness of the farm, the distance I could see, endless ground covered in a white shawl of snow.
Deadly
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The chlamys was a heavy woolen shawl, red or purple.
Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae
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Roohul's life revolved around creating beautiful embroidery designs on kurtas, dupattas, saris and shawls.
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Mother wrapped the baby up in a warm shawl.
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He had wrapped himself well in muffler and shawl over jacket and kurta.
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Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
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Darning with flosses upon both white and black bobbinet, or silk net, was a very common form of the art, and veils of white with seed or all-over designs darned in white silk floss, may be called the "personal needlework" of the period, and some of the shawls were superb stretches of design and stitching.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
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Four years ago, on a raid at a London shop, police seized 138 shahtoosh shawls, which had price tags ranging between £2,000 and £15,000.
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I knocked on the door, which brought the owner of the house out dressed in a nightshirt and shawl and carrying what I took to be a lighted reed.
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On the other hand, the heteroclite array of the dancers of the night before, torn from their slumbers, appeared in fantastic and ridiculous outline like the shades of a magic lantern; shawls, rugs, and even bed-quilts wrapped around them.
Tartarin On The Alps
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Two only of the vagrant tribe the boy dislikes, the colporteur and the travelling Spiritualist -- two cold, shabby, sniffling beings, each wrapped in a shawl and each driving an old horse afflicted with poll-evil.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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I get this lovely image of you sitting by a pleasant fire wrapped in shawls, wearing a deathshead bonnet and sipping hot chocolate from your skull cup, with gently tremorous hands.
My haul of Halloween skull stuff and a lot of screaming
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She was running and stumbling as she ran, talking to herself, exclaiming, gesticulating; her fair hair was in disorder and her shawl (the burnous and the mantle were unknown in those days) had slipped off her shoulders and was kept on by one pin.
Lieutenant Yergunov's Story
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With dark eyes peeping out from beneath her black shawl, she would happily waylay any child or adult who wandered past.
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Nowadays, fashion conscious Asian men are adopting long flowing robes, jackets and dhotis or baggy kameezs and salwars, with a shawl thrown over the shoulder.
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You're going to be wearing a long white dress, kind of gauzy looking, with a satin pink shawl around your shoulders.
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Sheath dresses of any colour can translate themselves from day to night, just keep in mind that sleeveless dresses and tops may not work in every office setting so wear with a 'cardi' or drape a shawl over your shoulders for some extra daytime cover.
JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories
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While the price tag on a shahtoosh shawl in Delhi's underground market ranges from £400 to £1,250, on the international market the price could be three to eight times as much.
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Any outfit can have a little enhancement with our wide range of stoles and shawls.
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A famous silk mercer once brought an action against the Orleans family for damages done in the course of a night to his stock of shawls and stuffs, and gained the day and a considerable sum.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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By the way, I started sewing up HInto of History's Shawl Collar dress yesterday and became stumped with the batiste collar.
Painting Inspired Dress # 1
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How about a shawl, babies dungarees or a cuddly toy?
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The shochet, 32-year-old Rabbi Shalom Kantor, is standing off to the side, removing his prayer shawl and phylacteries.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat
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The plaid shawl was not proof against the wind and rain of that biting November, and her lungs, so long her boast among asthmatical neighbours, succumbed to the heavy fogs that alternated with the gales and frosts.
The Port of London Murders
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“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”
Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz
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He opposed circumcision, wearing of skull caps or prayer shawls, or the blowing of the shofar - in short just about anything traditionally Jewish.
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The white fur shawl and the light brown loose trousers blend beautifully with her simple, classic hair style.
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Also a fine shawl and lace tattoos all over the top of my body.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indians stoles, shawls and textiles found their way into English homes and Indian wools and cottons became a part of European dress.
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An awful vision confronted him, -- the Widder Poll, clad not only in the Tycoon rep, but her best palm-leaf shawl, her fitch tippet, and pumpkin hood; her face was still bandaged, and her head-gear had been enwound by a green _barège_ veil.
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
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Circus wearing burnous and shawls and elegant scarfs.
The Imaginary Mistress
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So, head straight for sweaters, pullovers, and shawls.
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In the diversified throng were shawled crones, young fathers with niños perched atop their shoulders, and beautiful brown women beamingly holding the hands of other children, each dressed in his best.
Las Posadas, 2001
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Mollie peered round the corner with her shoulders huddled in a shawl, and her face at once so cheerful, so unreproving, and so bleached with cold, that it was not in human nature to refuse the desired invitation.
The Fortunes of the Farrells
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Very few of them, no matter how poor, are bareheaded: the men wear flat caps, bowlers, straw boaters, trilbies, toppers, the women shawls or floral hats.
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They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital.
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The excavator also recovered a blue shawl of loosely spaced plain weave with red stripes.
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There will be lots of beautifully designed beaded and embroidered purses and shawls to complement the season's gowns.
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Books can be exchanged along the way, knickers washed, sarongs or sarapes bought in place of sheets, towels, skirts, shawls.
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The robe is 100 per cent polyester and the shawl 100 per cent acrylic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The maid flapped and fussed and settled her mistress in the chair, arranging cushions and shawls.
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Securing awe and applaud from people standing on both sides of the road, the procession moved on to the holy shrine carrying the shawls with utmost respect.
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Despite your efforts, thousands of shahtoosh shawls are still being woven in Kashmir.
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Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
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Barrel or pigeon chests shouldn't wear shawl collars for fear of looking like the aforementioned bird; on the über-broad-chested, a single-breasted suit avoids the mafia vibe; skinny and tall look more pulled-together in double-breasted.
The Black and White on Black Tie
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We had unyoked the horses and got astride, and when we came to the gate there was the bonny spaewife carrying a bairn in a tartan shawl.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Maybe a shawl, maybe a poncho… but it is fun to do, nevertheless.
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In 1999 United States Fish and Wildlife Service officials forced nearly 100 wealthy Manhattan residents to return shahtoosh shawls smuggled into the country.
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He could see two people huddled under shawls, crouching but unable to get to shelter.
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An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway.
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Mrs. Vervain gave a frailish start from the chair, into which she had sunk, "Oh, do let us be off at once, then," she said; and when they stood on the landing-stairs of the hotel: "What gloomy things these gondolas are!" she added, while the gondolier with one foot on the gunwale of the boat received the ladies 'shawls, and then crooked his arm for them to rest a hand on in stepping aboard; "I wonder they don't paint them some cheerful color.
A Foregone Conclusion
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The muleteer, with head wrapped up in a shawl, intoned a kind of dirge, pausing sometimes to ask Allah to improve his plight.
The Valley of the Kings
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For daily wear, they often don an outfit called shalwar kameez long blouse, pajama-like pants, and shawl.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS
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For the ceremony itself, the groom wears a long, loose-fitting garment called a jellaba and the bride wears the traditional long head shawl and kaftan.
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And ever more women are trading their burqas, the head-to-toe garment worn in public, for an Iranian-style shawl, or chador, which covers the hair and body but not the face.
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She wrapped her daughter in a shawl and they hid in some long grass by the fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maisie was taking her time arranging her shawl around her shoulders.
Burning Bright
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I wore the blue scarf, which is actually more of a shawl or a sash, around my waist and the blue rose in my hair the next day.
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Today, Kevin is wearing his robes: a long, flowing white tunic, a shawl and a headdress with a yellow headband.
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Knitting a square shawl inwards from the border is much the same.
Archive 2009-01-01
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There she headed up Bible studies and prayer meetings that many of the shawlies went to.
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Jessie looked with dismay at the collection of dirty-looking shawls and coats her stepmother was piling on the sofa as "bedclothes," and if she had not been so dead tired, she could never have brought herself to lie down under them.
The Story of Jessie
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She virtually invented boho-chic: swirly tiered skirts, fringed shawls and improbable headdresses, worn with an insouciant slash of scarlet lipstick on her sensuous lips.
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Past these windows, from Randolph to Twelfth surges the crowd: matinee girls, all white fox, and giggles and orchids; wise-eyed saleswomen from the smart specialty shops, dressed in next week's mode; art students, hugging their precious flat packages under their arms; immigrants, in corduroys and shawls, just landed at the Twelfth street station; sightseeing families, dazed and weary, from Kansas; tailored and sabled
Fanny Herself
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Elizabeth groaned and wrapped a shawl around her shoulders to cover her nightdress before plunging out her door with the empty pitcher in her hand.
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The Prince of Parthia, having completed his evening devotions, folded his shawl, kissing its fringes.
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Franklin Gutierrez stroked a two- away from separate, shawl secondarily and came eternal folks' on a Casey Kotchman ruttish hit.
Top Information about Home Management
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Shivering slightly with the cold I wrapped a shawl around my shoulders and left the house.
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The Virgin's shawl is of a distinctly baroque blue and the manger itself is full of plump Midwestern wheat stalks.
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Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl.
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Very few of them, no matter how poor, are bareheaded: the men wear flat caps, bowlers, straw boaters, trilbies, toppers, the women shawls or floral hats.
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They linked their talliths (prayer shawls) into a huppah (wedding canopy) and ordered us to squat beneath it.
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The women would put on their green Josephs and gaudiest quilted petticoats or their tabinet gowns of Waterloo whose splendour kirk or market poorly revealed for the shawls that must cover them.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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At times the silent cottage became unendurable, and Saxon would throw a shawl about her head and walk out the Oakland Mole, or cross the railroad yards and the marshes to Sandy Beach where
CHAPTER XV
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Her hair was flying in frozen tresses about her unshawled bosom, and no outer covering protected her from the chill blast.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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She was a tall woman, dressed in a bright purple dress with lace, a dark blue shawl thrown about her shoulders and a black hat on her bright red hair.
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We also stock kilt hose, christening shawls, bedjackets, tartan scarves, ties etc. hand dyed wool and coned yarn for knitters and weavers.
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The gossamer threads of the shahtoosh make a shawl so warm and soft that it passes through a ring.
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So I got dressed and slipped a shawl over my shoulders, wrapping it around myself tightly.
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Duplicates of the paper-thin shahtoosh shawls (from Ladakh), which have been banned, are available in the local market.
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Taking little heed of the pelting shower the "omadhaun," who wears a red bandanna like a shawl, and waves a formidable shillelagh, makes a harangue which, so far as I can understand it, has neither head nor tail.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Where have all the shawlies gone?
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She wrapped her daughter in a shawl and they hid in some long grass by the fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a relief to the church folk when the shawlies were coming in such large numbers that Amy needed a separate building for them.
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From inside my shawl I drew out a gold locket and chain and placed it gently on top of the counter.
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Keep the bulky fabrics to shawls and accessories and be mad about figure-skimming lightweight plaids.
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Now, we must prologue a body of this article by stating which abhorrence is aged shawl when it comes to me.
Archive 2009-10-01
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He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvellous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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The princess and her daughter made their appearance half an hour before dinner-time; the old lady had put on, in addition to the green dress with which I was already acquainted, a yellow shawl, and an old-fashioned cap adorned with flame-coloured ribbons.
First Love
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It has a shawl collar, wide belt and cuffed hemline.
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We have long since lost the vision of grand dames and ladies of less elderly degree in their grey cloaks and mutches, or the black silk shawls of many generations’ wear, leading by the hand boys and girls carrying little stools upon which to settle during the sermon.
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He knew just the cost of Major Broad's scarlet cloak and shoe-buckles, and how Mrs. Major had a real Ingy shawl up in her "camphire" trunk, that cost nigh as much as Lady Lothrop's.
Oldtown Folks
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Back in the redwoods in January 1997, a caravan of 100 worshippers - some wearing talliths, or fringed prayer shawls, as Jews have for thousands of years - hiked onto the timber firm's property and planted two dozen redwood seedlings along a barren stream bank.
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So election time means good business for shops dealing in shawls.
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It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more.
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Mela could not resist plucking a silvery platina lace shawl from a nearby Spanish shawl bush, and Okra nibbled bits and pieces from the pink peppermint candytuft tree.
The Color of Her Panties
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His clay feet, swarded in verdigrass, stick up starck where he last fellonem, by the mund of the maga-zine wall, where our maggy seen all, with her sisterin shawl.
Finnegans Wake
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In the past, khadi shawls were made from hand spun and hand woven "khaddar" of different weaves and textures in Punjab.
KHADI SHAWL
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Knitwear includes shawls, scarves and berets with a selection of babywear also available.
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Today, Kevin is wearing his robes: a long, flowing white tunic, a shawl and a headdress with a yellow headband.
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The first notice that I have seen is in the _Salem Gazette_ of 1784 -- "a rich sortment of shawls.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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A yellow shawl to match her dress was draped over her forearms, and she chuckled nervously at Allen's reaction.
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The men wear flat caps, bowlers, straw boaters, trilbies, toppers; the women shawls or floral hats.
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In his kippa and tallis (the traditional skullcap and prayer shawl), he paused frequently along the way so that those gathered to commemorate this important day might reach out from the pews to touch their own tallis to the sacred scroll.
Sylvia Sukop: Germany's First Jewish Cantor Since the Holocaust Finds a New Home in Los Angeles
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She donned a pair of shimmery black nylons to hide the bruises on her legs, pointy stiletto shoes and grabbed a silver coloured shawl and headed back out to see him.
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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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She had the decency to cover herself with a brightly coloured, beaded shawl but it hardly helped.
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The strands of the red threaded shawl slung over her chair projecting perhaps hope, or is she abandoning vanity?
Times, Sunday Times
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She wore a muslin mutch, fine but not much different from those of the old wives in the cottages, with a broad black ribbon round it tied in a large bow on the top of her head; and her shoulders were enveloped in a warm tartan shawl pinned at the neck with a silver brooch.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Other fabrics on display were Pashmina shawls, also hand woven traditionally, silk, chiffon and georgette saris with sequin work and embroidery.
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Frosted store windows groaned with a cornucopia of Irish linens, Madras shawls, China tea, Moroccan slippers, Scottish whisky and Madeira wine.
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On her feet were white silk slippers with rhinestone buckles, and over her arm she carried a white shawl.
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But later, he conducted a simple prayer service in vestments that included a hard hat, combat boots and a prayer shawl.
For those touched most by 9/11, a turning point in faith
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She draggles her shawl.
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He recognized Lilli despite the heavy blanketlike shawl wrapped around her.
Stands a Calder Man
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The hand-stitched embroidery on her dress and the shawl draped over her head hint of a Jackie O from another world, but you'd have to be a local to know it.
Catholic Relief Services: A Pakistani Designer Seeks Fashion and Women's Revolution
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Modern Amusement shawl-collar thick-knit cardigans are hung on the end of a rack, sans hangers; Ernest Sewn jeans are meticulously folded; shoe displays are neatly arranged among racks of Spiewak jackets.
The Huntington News RSS
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Alex FouldsDevelopment director, Southern Railway• On seeing the crocheted apple cosies in G2 (Crafts, 23 May), who can have failed to be reminded of the fetching "Shawl-Coatee for Winter Turnip" in the Practice and Fury of Knitting chapter of And Now All This by Sellar and Yeatman (1932)?
Letters: Brighton early
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If the Orthodox rabbi had any Halachic issues, Shiya said, I should inquire about the possibility of burying the lampshade along with shaymos—sacred ritual objects like tallis prayer shawls and tefillin phylacteries that, being inscribed with the name of G-d, were to be interred with the same respect as the human body.
The Lampshade
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A knitted shawl clung to her shoulders and covered her bosom modestly.
