Trumbull allowed the flower to fall alarmingly into strings of heart-shaped leaves—"a book of riddles!
"I find myself that it's uncommonly difficult to make the right thing work: there are so many strings pulling at once.
She resigned no domestic function to her daughter; and the matron's blooming good-natured face, with the two volatile pink strings floating from her fine throat, and her cheery manners to husband and children, was certainly among the great attractions of the Vincy house—attractions which made it all the easier to fall in love with the daughter.
Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires?
Vincy mostly trades on the Bank money; and you may see yourself, brother, when a woman past forty has pink strings always flying, and that light way of laughing at everything, it's very unbecoming.
" Shaking with laughter, she proceeded to "hook-and-eye" him into the cotton print gown, arranged the shawl with a professional fold, and tied the strings of the rusty bonnet under his chin.
TOAD It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings.
Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their slates, and driving crickets harnessed to strings, up and down aisle.
They made my Fort Worth clothes carpenter look like a dealer in horse blankets and gee strings.
His guitar hung by its buckskin string to a hackberry limb, moaning as the gulf breeze blew across its masterless strings.
There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing.
When the swallows heard this, they all came down on to the Doctor's ship; and they told him to unravel some pieces of long rope and make them into a lot of thin strings as quickly as he could.
A lot of little holes tied together with strings.
Mirth or laughter, bouts of anger or strings of curses—all made excellent writing under his pen.
Romania Romania's Martisor festival marks the beginning of spring when talismanic strings and flowers are handed out, often from men to women.
"Dad took the fiddle to the telephone and thumped the strings.
" "A lot of little holes tied together with strings.
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached.
When installed with strings and plucked, it gave out a wonderful sound, harmonious and pleasing to the ear.
Eventually, we would wear him down and he would say "Okay, but remember, I can't hold down on the strings the way I used to" or "Since the accident to this finger I can't play as good".
