befringed
Example Sentences
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With her head hatless, her short Irish homespun skirt displaying much blue stocking which exactly matched her silk sweater and her large befringed eyes, she made a fascinating opponent and companion.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton
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
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 Zane Grey
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
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
