befringed
Example Sentences
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He looked at the lamp hanging from the ceiling, and noticed that the silken, befringed shade was rose-pink.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
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 Oscar Wilde
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 Robert Ross
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 Henry Handel Richardson
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 Cynthia Stockley
