befringed

Example Sentences

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Where last night had been a hill, to-morrow would be a rushing river, befringed with mimosa, whose odour had been sweet on the breeze all the day before.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

The "Girl Graduate," with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosize "that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt."

From Shorter Prose Pieces by Wilde, Oscar

Boldly going up to befeathered and befringed chieftains, he offered them knives, hatchets, or strings of silvery beads.

From The Spirit of the Border by Grey, Zane

The ‘Girl Graduate,’ with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosise ‘that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt.’

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

He looked down on the plump, ungainly figure, and, without feeling either satisfaction or repugnance, stooped and kissed the befringed forehead.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel