logo Home
Random word Common words
Language
Català Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά English Español Suomi Français Magyar Italiano Nederlands Norsk Polski Português Svenska Tagalog

"Well, if you can guarantee that " "I think it would be acceptable," said Mrs. Tarrant; and putting up a half-gloved, familiar hand, she drew Miss Birdseye down to her, and the pair explained in alternation what it was their child could do. Meanwhile, Basil Ransom confessed to Doctor Prance that he was, after all, rather disappointed.
Henry James - The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)

From this well-dressed crowd, from these boxes where one caught sight of white gleaming shoulders, half-gloved arms, flower-decked heads, sparkling necklaces, flashing glances, it seemed to Vaudrey as if a strange, subtle perfume arose the perfume of women, an intoxicating odor, in the midst of this radiancy that rivaled the brilliant sun at its rising.
Jules Claretie - His Excellency the Minister
  • 1

Word Of The Day

coggswells

Others Looking

  • half-gloved
  • rheumy
  • abriss
  • famers
  • perlmutter
  • dazzlingly
  • tool
  • regulieres
  • lepelletier
  • fled
  • tots
  • curse
  • wiltshire
  • sein
  • altown
  • vital
  • lala's
  • coaat
  • gaine's
  • teamster

© 2011 - 2023 Word in Context.