| 单词 | Sunday best |
| 例句 | Dressed in their Sunday best—women in high heels and white gloves, men in suits wearing tie clasps—they might have been on their way to church. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evening he come out on the porch in his Sunday best. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We kept moving past row after row of Sunday best. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the shantytowns and working- class neighborhoods whole families—parents, children, and grandparents—took to the streets in their Sunday best, gaily making their way toward the center of the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In the evening he come out on the porch in his Sunday best She be sitting there with me shelling peas or helping the children with they spelling. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fair’s concourse was packed with tourists dressed in their Sunday best, bright satin and chiffon and silk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were all sitting there primly dressed in their spring Sunday best. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “I will see most of you later this evening for the lecture at the university. Please make sure you wear your Sunday best for this fine event.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There, standing in her Sunday best, was Aunt Rose—only she looked much younger. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z By then most people had finished their church meetings, and some, still in their Sunday best, were out for a walk. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z We both had put on our new Sunday best jackets, trousers, shirts, and neckties, and we looked right respectful as we stepped up on the ferry. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z So one day we all put on our Sunday best and ambushed Gracie Mansion. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z On Thursdays kitchen girls and garden boys, dressed in their Sunday best, continued coming to the townships to spend their day off with their families and friends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She had walked straight into a stout woman in her Sunday best. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lapham would as always escort his household, dressed in Sunday best, to the Cockerel Church and after that back for a cold dinner. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly dress myself in his Sunday best, which either he or his mother conveniently left out the night before. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The younger ones were tired and rigid in their Sunday best, and the older ones were beginning to squirm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What I love best about Sundays is that not only is Pop Pop sober, but we get to pretend like we’re something special, dressed in our Sunday best. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Death is a formal affair, and they’re dressed in their Sunday best. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was one thing, however, that made coming to Sunday service with Gran totally worth it: gawking at the gobs of people strutting into church wearing their Sunday best. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The children were dressed in their Sunday best, and I, in a flight of patriotism, had tied a red, white, and blue ribbon to my best hat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ms. Foley, a former competitor, remembers a time when dancers hand embroidered their costumes with Celtic designs and curled their hair for competitions, in the tradition of putting on your Sunday best. Following ‘Riverdance,’ Competitions and Shows Abound 2014-02-14T21:38:53Z He quietly took stock of a former living room in disarray: clothes strewn across the floor, a photo of a baby in her Sunday best, a piano crumbling in the corner. The ballad of Big John Fetterman: Democrats yearned for a folk hero. But will they vote for one? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Seeing her in her Sunday best for church also left an impression. A Designer Who Celebrates West Indian Elegance 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z When I was about two, wearing my Sunday best, he pushed me into our goldfish pond. Katee Sackhoff: ‘Most women in my family marry and have children. I was different’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The matter of the pastors’ Sunday best touches on questions of temperance and lust. The Normcore Opulence of Preachers Wearing Four-Figure Sneakers 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The Coach is one of those places where both men and women wear cowboy hats and big belt buckles not as costumes, but as their Sunday best. In Wyoming, folks are religious about hitting the Stagecoach Bar on a Sunday night “American Style” zips through fashion history, pausing along the way to draw connections between zoot suits and racism, miniskirts and sex, Sunday bests and the Civil Rights movement. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z A father and son, dressed in their Sunday best, stand outside a building that looks like a school. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Now we get up in the morning and put on our Sunday best and trudge off to church on the off-chance that the Lord Himself will appear and shine His glory on us in person. Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z I was a little nine-year-old black girl from Chicago when my mother and I dressed in our Sunday best and went to the Auditorium Theater to see Sammy Davis Jr. in “Golden Boy. ” ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z There is a long tradition of Sunday best in the African-American community dating back decades before the civil rights movement, Mr. Ford said. The Dress Codes of the Uprising 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z My mum is quite old, and when she was young she had only Sunday best and two or three other outfits. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Caught between two worlds, she appears frail, vulnerable and out of place in her Sunday best. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “It’s Sunday, so Sunday best,” said her grandson, Shareif Jones, 24. Can Jill Biden help move the needle on vaccination rates? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Later that day, her grandmother put on her own Sunday best, voted Republican, and returned to triumphantly tell her husband, “I boxed you out.” She was born the day women got the vote. And then a century passed. . . 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z We all have some version of it – that family photo showcasing us in our Sunday best, all smiles. "Ted Lasso" creators Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt want you to know it's OK not to be OK 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z On cobbled walkways and public squares, couples in their Bavarian Sunday best — lederhosen and colorful dirndls — enjoy the spring sunshine. Journeys: German Town Where Opposing Soldiers Prevented Destruction 2010-05-28T07:49:00Z An exquisite portrait miniature of Rose Prentice, a domestic worker in her Sunday best, painted around 1837, joins the constellation of proud, self-possessed Black women to have served as muse to the artist Mickalene Thomas. A Portrait Miniature Was Muse to Mickalene Thomas 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z In others, we’re looking out at bystanders who line the way: white office workers; hecklers; multiracial shoppers; African-American children on porches; women, dressed in Sunday best, on the steps of black churches. Stephen Somerstein Photos in ‘Freedom Journey 1965’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As such, “#BlackAF’s” presumably already-woke viewers get lessons on “the white gaze” and the deeper significance of black bling, historically tracing luxury clothing and jewelry to the earliest, slave-era concepts of “Sunday best” apparel. Review | In ‘#BlackAF,’ Kenya Barris channels an unsympathetic alter ego, with unhappy results 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Most of the Bhutanese had dressed up in their Sunday best national dress to celebrate. Oscars diary: A yak in the classroom, a family in Hollywood 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In some ways, it was what I expected: a crowd of primarily older white men and their wives, dressed in their western Sunday best, talking weather and cattle and market prices. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He couldn’t remember our strolls down Brick Lane in our Sunday best or dancing in a field with our friends. He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Dressed in her Sunday best, Priss goes through the motions of growing up. Kim Dingle lets her alter ego loose, and the result is a rip-roaring ride 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z “We didn’t like the idea of producing a ‘Sunday best’ dinner service only to be used on special occasions,” Ronan Bouroullec said. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z "Symphony concerts have gone through a gigantic shift from Mozart's time, where it was a chance to wear your Sunday best, a place to be seen and to see," he says. Seattle Symphony branches out with 'Symphony Untuxed' and '[untitled]' series 2012-10-18T20:18:10Z The pair, dressed in their Sunday best, entered the hotel’s stone terrace through a metal gate. Next Stop: In Italy, Luxury Transforms Caves Into Hotels 2010-11-20T06:29:00Z I’m thinking about the spaces where we celebrate identity and construct different fantasies on top of our bodies — there’s a sort of peacocking associated with wearing one’s Sunday best, for instance. Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Later we dined at a long table, my family in our Sunday best, grown up and civilized, with cloth napkins on our laps. Modern Love: Modern Love - Building Christmas on Presence, Not Presents 2012-12-20T17:50:57Z And Updike, in his equally voluminous collections of reviews, makes it clear that critics, unlike novelists, are somehow “on duty”: They have to wear their Sunday best, and can never come as they are. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “This is the black and white of birthdays and summer vacations. Grandma’s Sunday best.” Remembering author, teacher and critic Judith Kitchen 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Then, when they died, dressed in their Sunday best, this is where they’d end up. Celebrating Sicily: Italy at its most extreme 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Another photograph depicts an older woman in her Sunday best, clutching a Bible in front of a New Orleans row home. Genevieve Gaignard tackles race, class and identity at the California African American Museum 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z What memories are there in a dress, or some special, unused cutlery, or someone's Sunday best? Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z "They would want them to wear their Sunday best and be all clean shaven and looking smart again." The 24-year-old embalmer preparing bodies for 'last goodbyes' 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Last weekend, the couple seemingly set aside their differences and put on their Sunday best to take their children to church together, PageSix reported. Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann call off divorce after weeks of contention 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Or they’re reading in gardens to children dressed in their Sunday best - Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” is a favorite book for performers and kids alike. Drag queens are out, proud and loud in a string of coal towns, from a bingo hall to blue-collar bars 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Or they’re reading in gardens to children dressed in their Sunday best — Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” is a favorite book for performers and kids alike. Drag queens are out, proud and loud in a string of coal towns, from a bingo hall to blue-collar bars 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z They wore their Sunday best — coats and ties for the men, dresses for the women. Could a flying dress code make for more polite passengers? 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Roy Cortez arrived at the West Hollywood Pride festival last weekend in full Sunday best: a plaid miniskirt that showed off a bit of underbutt and a bleached crew cut with intricately dyed designs. After WeHo-L.A. split, many expected 'Pride wars.' Instead, it's a fight for survival 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z It matched his lowest score ever at Augusta National - he shot 65 in the opening round in the 1996 Masters and was at his Sunday best. Rahm rallies to win the Masters as Spanish stars align 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z It was close to a lot of churches and people often came in wearing their Sunday best like the two below in the 1930s, hoping the camera would capture them looking their finest. Ghana photography: Capturing a new nation coming to life 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z “Sunday best” was how the dress code was described for the 2018 Met Gala, which celebrated the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Rihanna's upcoming Super Bowl performance is already so iconic it has a wax figure 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The NFL didn’t put on its Sunday best for the conference championships. Analysis: NFL wasn’t at its best in conference championships 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Instead, she combs her hair, mists some perfume and slips on her “Sunday best” in hopes that the doctors and nurses won’t peg her as a drug seeker, she said. From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain “They were so stoic. They donned their Sunday best to leave. They never complained, never cried,” Berk, of Studio City, said of her parents. 'There's our family name': Sacred book honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z That Friday, he put on what he described as his Sunday best — a wool blazer, a pair of cowboy boots and his favorite bow tie. He came out as trans. Then Texas had him investigate parents of trans kids. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z On Election Days, they dressed in their Sunday best and headed to the ballot box, even though it meant paying poll taxes and passing literacy tests. At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Worshippers had turned up in their Sunday best for the Pentecost service, which marks the birth of the church and official end of the Easter season. Nigeria Owo church attack: Survivors tell of horror 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Even early in his youth, Mr. Talley was attuned to clothing and style, taking note of the Sunday best that fellow congregants wore to services at his Baptist church. André Leon Talley, eminence of haute couture, dies at 73 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “And you?” she said, turning to a man dressed in his Sunday best. As Mexican cumbia band tours U.S. South, every accordion squeeze brings nostalgia 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Everybody puts on their Sunday best for court, of course, but the mug shots of those two, as well as of Bryan, are likely more accurate representations of what Arbery was seeing that day. Opinion | The stench of vigilantism in Georgia 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z When the riders escaped the burning wreck, the mob — many wearing their Sunday best — attacked them. Arrested and beaten during civil rights protests, she’s 93 and finally telling her story 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Lawson recalls an Easter when two of the cousins got into a fistfight and started rolling down the hill, fighting in their Sunday best. The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z He arrives in his Sunday best and, in the middle of a weekday news cycle, roars about Jesus and injustice. Perspective | The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z One family was dressed up in its Sunday best. With his mentors dying, a young Catholic priest tries to save his diocese from COVID-19 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Put on your Sunday best, or if you are on the East Coast, follow the kids’ lead by donning pajamas. Have a Ball This Super Bowl Sunday 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Retired executive secretary Pamela Rahman, 84, was dressed up in her Sunday best, only to find that she was not wearing the easiest clothing for a vaccine shot. A day to remember: London nursing home greets virus vaccine 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Families, many dressed in their Sunday best, lined up in the high school gym to get shots from nurses dressed in starched white uniforms. Kansas town embraced polio vaccine, but skeptical this time 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Her grandmother, born in 1910 and prevented from voting much of her life, dressed in her Sunday best and carried her “good pocketbook,” because the occasion demanded respect. Knocking on Two Million Doors in Georgia 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The meeting was memorialized in a photograph with Mr. Adler and the children in their “Sunday best.” A Beloved World War II Photo Comes to Life in a Virtual Reunion 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z However, like congregants of myriad churches all over the Southland, I will be logging in online anyway, in front of my own decorations, perhaps with my own candles, Sunday best optional. Where to find church services in L.A. this Christmas Eve 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Each table in the banquet hall was filled with folks dressed in their Sunday best. Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Many dressed in Sunday best wave at fellow parishioners, stealing embraces over pews and gently dancing through hymns. Joy and relief as Lagos churches reopen after lockdown 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z They wear military uniforms, towering hats, graduation caps and gowns or simple Sunday best. Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z My first idea was to photograph African churches in my area of south London, because the black teens in their Sunday best look so different from the negative stereotypes about hoodie culture. Katie Waggett's best photograph: Sunday worship with Joy 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Brooks said that when his mother was a teenage student at South Carolina State College in the early 1960s, she dressed up in her Sunday best, wearing a new coat, to protest segregation. At protests, mostly white crowds show how pandemic has widened racial and political divisions 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Dozens of Spell’s parishioners met him at the East Baton Rouge Parish prison, dressed in their Sunday best, arrived in church buses to show support. Life Tabernacle Church pastor defies house arrest to hold services 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z After Spell’s arrest, dozens of Spell’s parishioners met him at the East Baton Rouge Parish prison, dressed in their Sunday best, to show support. Pastor defies house arrest, again holds service during virus 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Spell was taken to the East Baton Rouge Parish prison, where about 70 of his parishioners, dressed in their Sunday best, arrived in church buses to show support. Defiant Louisiana pastor arrested on assault charge 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z People sang their songs, drank their tea, paid to cross, whistled their tunes and wore their Sunday best. Letter of Recommendation: Mudlarking 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z On the weekend, thousands of men and women put on their Sunday best, climbed aboard their motorcycles, and zoomed to church. Africa Braces for Coronavirus, but Slowly 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z So when the downtown Seattle Macy’s opened for the last time Sunday, Cromwell was there, wearing her Sunday best with a cameo pin — and that hat. Saying goodbye and thanks to Macy’s in downtown Seattle 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The door cracked open and a woman, dressed in her Sunday best and tailed by a man of the same age, peered in. Fried Fish. Rave Reviews. Then Someone Messed With the Gas Lines. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z And Olivia makes the kids get dressed in their Sunday best, which is wool on this hot, hot day. Michael Learned says 'The Waltons' saved her life, calls new film 'Second Acts' a 'gift' 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “Tens of thousands of residents in their Sunday best lined the streets, waving Chinese and North Korean flags and bouquets and shouting enthusiastically in welcome of their distinguished Chinese guest,” Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. China’s Xi arrives in North Korea to hold talks with Kim Jong Un before G-20 summit 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z A mother and daughter, in their Sunday best, took a taxi to Easter Mass on Sunday morning at St. Anthony’s Shrine, a stately Catholic church near the heart of the Sri Lankan capital. 290 killed in Easter Sunday explosions in Sri Lanka. Americans are among the dead 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The huge crowds who show up in their proverbial Sunday best are terribly moving in their earnest, soon to be shattered hopefulness. Review: In a rewarding ‘Peterloo,’ Mike Leigh challenges himself — and the audience 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z NORFOLK, Va. — The inoffensive images show photographs of aspiring doctors in white lab coats tending to patients, or lounging on the beach in swimsuits, or posing with family members in their Sunday best. Yearbook Pages at Northam’s Medical School Recorded Both Memories and Prejudices 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In the city centre, a group of pensioners wearing white gloves and their Sunday best prepare for an end-of-course show. Icy Siberia reveals cracks in Putin's Russia 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z More than two dozen seniors rolled up to the university in their Sunday best on Wednesday - the women with lipstick and made-up hair, the men in jackets and sweaters, a boyish twinkle in their eyes. Seniors try their hand at speed dating at UW-La Crosse 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Or to put on our Sunday best to go shopping in downtown Seattle via the viaduct, exiting at Seneca Street. Viaduct memories: Love it or hate it, the doomed concrete hulk along Seattle’s waterfront brings out passion 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “You don’t have to come in your quote-unquote Sunday best,” Fanning said. Spiritual first responders hit the streets amid drug crisis 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z There’s Rose Fitzgerald not-yet-Kennedy in her Sunday best, long before she’d become the family matriarch and trade girlhood grins for imperious stares. Rare Kennedy photos go inside America’s most famous family 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But even in my Sunday best, I'm not particularly well dressed these days and that's because I'm in a foul mood. Why MPs got hot under the collar over this blouse 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Girls and women in their Sunday best bore flowers or candles in the procession. After three decades, a Guatemalan village ravaged by war brings home its dead 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Gillum stepped offstage and spotted a woman dressed in her Sunday best, sitting in a folding chair under the shade of a tree. ‘Sick of Losing,’ Democrats Race to the End of a Wild Florida Primary for Governor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The memorial, with candles dripping wax and helium balloons slowly deflating, celebrated the lives of the five children with pictures of them smiling, next to their parents, dressed in their Sunday best. Mourners Say Goodbye to 5 Children Killed in Fire in New Jersey 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z She describes it as a "Sunday best" item. The people with dragon legs and electric fingers 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Standing before picturesque, painted scenery of forests, many are smiling while wearing their Sunday best, like feathered hats, pearl earrings and leather gloves, or clutching their purses with perfect nail polish. Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z "We're encouraging people to dress in their Sunday best," she said, and also join in the planned hat and fascinator competition. Where to watch the royal wedding at L.A.-area pubs and tea parlors 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And Bolton is a little wary of how guests will interpret "the Sunday best" dress code for Monday night's Met Gala which, he said, comes "with this sort of implicit plea to dress more modestly." The Met’s Costume Institute unveils ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition during preview before the Met Gala 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z When she least expects it, she'll see McGinn's mother, in her Sunday best, her hands pressed against the glass of the death chamber. The woman who watched 300 executions 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z "Even though the war was coming, in 1939, this place would have had huge crowds on the promenade in their Sunday best," he says. Touring the Lake District with an 80-year-old guidebook 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Even on his finest behavior — even wearing his Sunday best — Trump could not be gracious to immigrants. Opinion | Even on his finest behavior, Trump can’t be gracious to immigrants 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But not this day: they were wearing their Sunday best. The bloody clash that changed Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s a weekday extension of the pride a woman might find by slipping into her Sunday best, and all the identity, self-respect and defensive vanity those clothes help provide. How Lil’ Kim’s most memorable manicure ended up in the Museum of Modern Art 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z On Sunday as we explored the area, our father sang the first line of a never-to-be finished ditty: ‘Let’s all go out and see the disaster, dressed in our Sunday best!’ Essential California: House GOP tax bill would end deductions for wildfire and earthquake victims 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Most of the women and girls were attired in shiny, taffeta-like dresses in pastel shades of pink, purple, yellow and lime; the men wore their Sunday best, many sporting ties. Perspective | I worked for Paul Manafort. He always lacked a moral compass. 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z As ash floated from the sky, they streamed toward St. Rose Catholic Church — some in their Sunday best, others in the jeans and sweatshirts they’d worn as they fled the wildfires ravaging California’s wine country. After the wildfires, Santa Rosa churchgoers ask: Why here? Why us? 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z I run for the church ladies who tell me to “Go, girl!” in their Sunday best, Bibles in one hand and free hands reaching toward the sky. Training for the Marathon on 1.3 Legs 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We always showed up in our Sunday best to put people at ease, so they would consider us to be just like them — professional, educated and wanting the best for our family. Home buying while black 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z She had already purchased a flight and picked out her Sunday best for the occasion. Read Betsy DeVos' Speech About Changing Obama-Era Policies on Campus Sexual Assault 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Their families, the tradition goes, saw them off wearing their Sunday best. Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The secular spectacle was a takeoff on a New York tradition from the 1800s, when the city’s elite paraded their Sunday bests to mark the holiday. NYC Easter: Costume spectacle meets elegant tradition 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The secular spectacle was a takeoff on a New York tradition from the 1800s, when the city’s elite paraded their Sunday best to mark the holiday. NYC Easter: costume spectacle meets elegant tradition 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Many New Yorkers will don their Sunday best this weekend for Easter. New York Today: A Tip of the Hat for Easter 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z People used to wear their Sunday best to travel. Opinion | How to dress when you fly — two views 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z At around 6pm, the congregation poured out of mass in their brightly coloured Sunday best, straight into a crime scene. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The unofficial gathering is an assemblage of Disney fans who want nothing more than a chance to parade around the theme park in their Sunday best. What is Dapper Day and why do 20,000 people hit Disneyland in vintage couture to celebrate it? 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z In his Sunday best - a sports coat, chinos and brown leather shoes - he joined a small choir in songs that echoed out into the surrounding rice fields. 'Like a nuclear bomb,' cholera and destruction after hurricane in Haiti 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Ortiz looks forward to putting on his Sunday best and strutting the halls of his school, and he knows his mini-me is watching his every move. Boys at school in Waco learn young about how to be gentlemen 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But now that Burrell — and the Rams — have gone Hollywood, there is plenty of reason for both sides to break out their Sunday best. Rewriting a script: The Rams have come home to Hollywood, delighting fan Ty Burrell 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Yes, times are tough, he tells his congregants, who sit in broken chairs wearing their Sunday best. Tithing troubles 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Immigrant families would arrive for church services in their Sunday best, only to be told by clergymen to come back later so as not to upset the congregation. England in 1966: Racism and ignorance in the Midlands - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But she said she’ll be singing every Sunday - just in the pews wearing her Sunday best rather than next to the pulpit in a choir robe. Muscatine woman ends 69-year streak in church choir 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z They carefully chose people who were viewed as upstanding citizens, like Rosa Parks, to be the face of their movement, and dressed in their Sunday best as they sought to gain broader acceptance. On Crime Bill and the Clintons, Young Blacks Clash With Parents 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “In the 50s, men were very well groomed: they’d get their hair cut twice a month. It was the very masculine idea of looking your Sunday best.” Can you cut it: what your hairstyle says about you 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Seimas wore his Sunday best — the jersey of his beloved Oakland Raiders, his hair and face painted silver, and bulky shoulder pads adorned with upright bullets that served as spikes. Meetings with fans of NFL teams eyeing L.A. move have lots of passion, little sway 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the sanctuary, carpeted in purple and filled with red-cushioned pews, parishioners in their Sunday best took their places. Mount Zion celebrates 125 years as it looks to future 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z They show ordinary people and a few minor celebrities posing for portraits in their Sunday best. Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Dressed in their Sunday best, they would settle in for an entire day of singing, preaching and fellowship. Neighborhood vanishes, but its church endures 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Dressed in the equivalent of their Sunday best instead of tuxedos and shimmering gowns, the 55 winners, each accompanied by an adult, were invited to Michelle Obama's annual "Kids' State Dinner." Michelle Obama asks student winners of recipe contest to help combat childhood obesity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Parishioners queued for hours, in sweltering heat and Sunday best, to view the body of their dead pastor - the length of the line a measure of their respect. Obama to honour Charleston shooting victims at funeral - BBC News 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It was also about your “Sunday best,” a term stemming in part from laws in some states that required slave owners to buy slaves at least one decent set of clothes fit for church. New documentary ‘Fresh Dressed’ explores hip-hop fashion 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Please come in your “Sunday best” and enjoy the evening’s dinner and live music. Religion events from around the Washington area 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z When the festival unveiled its official poster on Wednesday - featuring faceless African American children wearing their white Sunday best and holding a basket of strawberries - it took less than 24 hours to generate bitter disagreement. Southern US strawberry festival sparks a race row 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z While the protesters of the ‘50s and ‘60s wore their Sunday best, marched in an orderly fashion and used uniform messaging on their signs, today’s protesters are more individualistic and worry less about appearing respectable. The Road from Selma to Ferguson 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It was a last dance, and people came here to tango in black lace and leather, their edgiest Sunday best. Cutups at the 'Cut-Outs': Up All Night With Matisse 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z By showing his classmates in their Sunday best or spending time as a family around the piano, Parks sought to offer LIFE’s readers pictures of African-American life that reflected their own experiences. A Lost Story of Segregation by Gordon Parks, LIFE’s First Black Photographer 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Little girls in their Sunday best—the children and grandchildren of the lawmakers and their guests—skip around the Capitol. As new Congress convenes, meatballs and schmoozing 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The photographer recalls when he would wear his Sunday best for church and rare family photo sessions. South Africa in Focus at Johannesburg Photo Festival Also inside, on pages labeled “Family Portraits,” were old metal photos of African American men and women clad in their Sunday best. Smithsonian studies African American treasures from the attic, and garage Dressed in their brightly colored Sunday best, they prayed and sang, dancing to the beat of a drum and a few gourds wrapped in beads and shaken in unison. In Ebola-ravaged Liberia, churches serve as a last gathering place The images show groups of workers posing for photos, of men eating in the dining hall and families dressed in their Sunday best visiting the construction site on weekends. Prairie du Sac Hydroelectric Dam hits centennial 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Beware the trap, cautions Alice, social media sites are the modern day equivalent of putting on your Sunday best before you go to church. Can The "Quarter Life Crisis" Really Be Life Changing? Here's Proof That It Can 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z With many in attendance wearing their Sunday best, the performance had the feel of a church revival. Four Plays by African-American Playwrights 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z But the girl in the photo, dressed in her Sunday best with white-rimmed glasses, a yellow hat and long, white gloves, was not Braddock. Sister of young victim of Birmingham church bombing tells students about segregation 2014-03-01T00:28:00Z Historically, watching the nation’s first family head to church dressed in their Sunday best, especially around the holiday season, was something of a ritual. As the Obamas Celebrate Christmas, Rituals of Faith Stay on the Sidelines 2013-12-29T01:42:41Z I see some moms and grandmas here, aunts, in their Sunday best — although they are upset about their hair getting messed up. Obama Talks Race, Fatherhood and Responsibility at Morehouse Commencement 2013-05-19T21:50:30Z I saw them dressed on Sunday in their Sunday best—far better dressed than English tenants of the working class are in their holiday attire.” The South still lies about the Civil War 2013-03-16T12:30:00Z Black and white photographs of the old days pinned up at the back show packed pews and children in their Sunday best. Cuba town's British Caribbean heritage 2012-12-27T09:49:43Z Worst case: You gain a whole new style and a new Sunday best. End of the World Skeptics: 15 Ways to Prepare 2012-12-07T15:00:40Z Half a dozen officers in camouflage fatigues mingle with the congregation dressed up in their Sunday best. Will radicalism ruin Mombasa's charms? 2012-09-19T12:23:29Z They’re your Sunday best” and, “When colors mean this much, you can only trust them to Tide.” Advertising: N.F.L. Season Brings Ad Campaigns From Tide and General Motors 2012-08-29T00:39:38Z Presently up the road hurried Clapp, the landlord of the "Fountain Head," his wife on his arm, both in their Sunday best, and both in such a state of excitement as rendered them almost crazy. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Now I must go doff my Sunday best—Father, I never can learn to call it the Sabbath; please forgive me!—and put on my busy-maid clothes! A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Certainly no stroller in his "Sunday best," having once experienced its unpleasant familiarity, would willingly give it a second opportunity. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z In the 1850s, Elizabeth Jennings and a friend were dragged off a street car dressed in their Sunday best after they refused to get off on their own. City Room: Carla L. Peterson on Black Life in 19th-Century New York 2012-02-17T16:51:48Z His decent, ready-made clothes were of the country, and proclaimed themselves "Sunday best." Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z He felt like a boy once more, buoyant and fresh as the morning, and had an impulse to follow the various families, in their Sunday best, who were ascending the steps. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Other people in their Sunday best were also on the road, and exchanged greetings in passing. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z The sideline is decorated with injured players in their Sunday best. Game thread: Concordia at Washington 2011-11-09T03:40:06Z I have watched the throng of the genteel coming down Broadway in their Sunday best and have thought, 'Not a man of you looks right in it—looks wholly free from affectation.' Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z On holidays the dandies of the prison put on their Sunday best. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z There, on an open space beneath a mighty linden tree, the rest of the people stood waiting--old folk and lads, women and children--all wearing their Sunday best. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z All were in their Sunday best, yet very few had so much as a bit of crape, a black kerchief, or a black pair of stockings. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z “I would not wear this hat, for I got it quite for Sunday best, but I want her to see that she cannot master me,” thought the child. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z But there was nothing Clemens could do to help his cause Wednesday, when the prosecutors and the defense outlined their cases to the jury — 10 women and 2 men, many dressed in their Sunday best. Opening Arguments in Clemens Perjury Case 2011-07-13T22:29:04Z Luisa and her aunt, both in their Sunday best, were seated on a sofa. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Alfred, wearing his Sunday best, was not so particular. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Evan Evans and Ales stood by, dressed in their Sunday best for the great occasion, a newly-breeched boy by the hand. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z The first day he shook all the ashes off him, the second he washed and combed himself, and the third he dressed himself in his Sunday best. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z So it was settled, and next day the boy, in his home-spun and home-made Sunday best, set off to see his employer and secure the job. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z The boy, in his Sunday best, and sleekly combed, came forth and bowed to the audience, his eyes luminous with vivacity. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z His dress was that of an artisan in his Sunday best: and his velvet vest covered a prominent and Herculean torso. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z But if you are a village friend, you may wear your "Sunday best" for undoubtedly everyone else who attends the party will do likewise. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z And yes, there are parties planned all over the country, where Royal revelers will spend the otherwise infomercial-only hours wearing their Sunday best. Castrodale: And we think royals fans are nuts? 2011-04-27T12:39:12Z Up in the gallery sat the ladies of the town, perspiring in their Sunday best; it was almost hot enough up there to boil a lobster. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z As Burton drove up to the Grant farmhouse he was met by Harry and George; the former in his working clothes, but his brother dressed in his Sunday best. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Nurse was holding a very pink and well scrubbed baby, dressed in her Sunday best. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Well, by my pipe, on these grand occasions, and without meaning to fight, the people shall put on its Sunday best, and march with pike-staves and cannon! The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Look closely and you'll see people dressed in their Sunday best for the game. As the Duke is remembered, another era begins 2011-03-01T08:12:09Z Every day she fix up in de Sunday best and wait for him. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z Dressed in his Sunday best, Joe was awaiting his call in the kitchen, and on being brought in he was closely questioned by Monteith. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z There were few young women even among wage-earners who couldn't make a fairly brave show in a neat tailor gown or a "Sunday best" for Church Parade. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Suits, dresses, high heels, plastic pearls — voters were dressed in their Sunday best. In Southern Sudan, a Jubilant Vote on Secession 2011-01-10T10:17:31Z Members of the church were dressed, as many African-American churchgoers all over this city are, in Sunday best, including in many cases natty or elegant hats, worn by men and women. | Rise Up Singing 2010-08-30T22:05:00Z The child was dressed in his Sunday best at Churchill Downs. Children Have a Place in Horse Racing 2010-05-25T11:42:00Z Trainer Bob Baffert argues part of the Derby's lure is the mass of humanity - much of them dressed in their Sunday best - that engulfs the track on Derby Day. New lights open door for primetime Kentucky Derby 2010-04-27T07:31:00Z Carefully trying not to dirty their Sunday best, she and her kids trek through the rain-drenched trails of a tent city that was once the Petionville golf and country club. Getting Haiti's Earthquake Homeless to Move 2010-04-13T08:35:00Z The piano had been moved out and the outfit, in its Sunday best, occupied the rustic seats and benches and overflowed to the turf paths. The Trail of Conflict He was attired in his "Sunday best," and boasted a face and hands of unwonted cleanliness. Terry's Trials and Triumphs When I went to lecture in a provincial town, a workman’s wife, who wrote patriotic stories in some weekly newspaper, invited me to her house, and I found all her children in their Sunday best. The Trembling of the Veil To these the climate added bright yellow moccasins, and a fur coat of the hairiest, the whole costume keyed up to Sunday best. A Man in the Open Already is Pullingham turning out, dressed in its very Sunday best, and is wending its way towards the school-house, where the concert is to be held. Faith and Unfaith Under the circumstances Ambrose's forehead was naturally moist with perspiration and his face not overly clean, yet his clothes, notwithstanding being somewhat crumpled and dusty, were plainly his Sunday best. The Loves of Ambrose They had been examining the trees when two colored lads, dressed in their Sunday best, bowed in crossing their path. The Shadow I am not really very particular about the photograph, especially in my 'Sunday best,' and I can easily come up some other day. Windyridge Her bright eyes fairly danced with joy as she posed before Jack in her "Sunday best." Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter They were in capital spirits; they were dressed in their Sunday best; they had a band playing at their head; a miscellaneous crowd, chiefly juvenile, with a few occasional females behind, brought up the rear. About London There was her father in his Sunday best coming out to meet them, wondering what had made them stay so long. Sowing and Sewing A Sexagesima Story As for their father, he was in his Sunday best,—a plain black coat, and a winter hat of felt, which was heavy and rusty-looking for that warm early summer day. The Life of Nancy He was not in his Sunday best, so the fault did not lie there; and his expression was all right, but I could not catch it on the plate, try as I might. Windyridge The company assembled in the Perrymans' barn consisted of the labouring population of three large farms, men and women, all dressed in their Sunday best. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies But during next week Dressed in his Sunday best This boy set out to seek All for another nest. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 The group turned to the opening door and saw Henry Fenn, resplendent in a high silk hat and a conspicuously Sunday best suit, which advertised his condition, standing in the open door. In the Heart of a Fool He never had bought himself a rougher suit of clothes or a coarse hat for haying, but his discarded Sunday best in various states of decadence served him for barn and field. The Life of Nancy Is this a visit of ceremony, or have you come in your Sunday best in order to have your portrait taken? Windyridge Oh! days no more when mothers wore Sunhood and riding skirt, And fathers dressed their Sunday best, A plain check-cotton-shirt,— Ah! happy days agone! The Loom of Life They found Terence below, rigged out in his Sunday best, and looking very smart. Australia Revenged The car came to a stand-still in a great yard, crowded with unharnessed carts, stablemen, and Normandy peasants in their Sunday best. A Nest of Spies Bleakly white the little church, in which we used to sit in our Sunday best, remained unchanged but the old school-house was not merely altered, it was gone! A Son of the Middle Border Lottchen, who had brought in my breakfast, was all in her Sunday best, having risen early to get her work done and go abroad to gather grapes. The Grey Woman and other Tales But I must not overlook Gershom, who duly donned his Sunday best in honor of Susie’s arrival and who is already undertaking to educate the brooding-eyed young lady from the East. The Prairie Child The Sunday best he wore to-day was two years old, and a discerning eye might have detected its imperfections which a recent careful pressing had not wholly obliterated. Otherwise Phyllis I was looking round watching the different families, all in their Sunday best, coming in and getting seated, when suddenly a woman’s voice began to lead the little choir. A Princess in Calico “A typical Yorkshire cattle-dealer in his Sunday best,” I suggested, as we passed another passenger. The Mystery of the Green Ray See proud Belinda smartly dressed In all her flaunting Sunday best; With muslin hat and ruffles big She cannot comfortably dig. Children of Our Town The milkmaid appeared in the doorway, clad in her Sunday best, as on the day she came. Lisbeth Longfrock His clothes were his Sunday best, and none too good at that; he was painfully conscious of the contrast of their raiment. Otherwise Phyllis The Father hurried on, pushing his way through the crowd of standing soldiers, chattering women and giggling street boys in their Sunday best. Tongues of Conscience “If she’s to be any good with the apples, she must not wear her Sunday best.” It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Manson was at his desk and still in his Sunday best. The Rapids For Amanda and her chum were dressed in their Sunday best—poplin dresses with a huge, gorgeous flower design that made the pretty, delicate-colored dresses of the other girls look pale and washed-out by comparison. Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck The servants, very clean and proper in their Sunday best, stood in a constrained group near the door, holding their gifts, still wrapped, awkwardly in their hands. The Adventures of Bobby Orde He was dressed in his Sunday best, and I wondered why he was going to Dundee on a Wednesday. A Dominie in Doubt Black Joe, dressed in his 'Sunday best,' was seated on the rustic settee at the back of the desk, and Phyllis and Dinah occupied chairs inside the low railing, which faced the pulpit. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I'm going back home, he thought as he paced along the gleaming arc of the bridge, dressed in his Sunday best. The Happy Unfortunate Mrs Lambert was comfortably asleep, and Bryda opened the door softly, and saw Jack standing near it, arrayed in his Sunday best—blue coat, bright buttons, and large buff waistcoat. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century She was dressed in her Sunday best; but her face was very grey and colourless, and she seemed afraid to cease speaking about household affairs, for fear she should have time to think. Curious, if True Strange Tales But when Ted was finally dressed in his shabby, "skimpy" Sunday best, he tucked his precious fiddle under his arm and slipped downstairs. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 His clothes were of the fashion of those good people called 'Friends,' and had served long as his 'Sunday best' before being degraded to daily duty. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy That evening at moonrise he passed through the kitchen dressed in his Sunday best. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 All the countryside of Vexin and of Caux had trooped into the town with women and children in their Sunday best. The Story of Rouen "Oh! stay," the maiden said, "and rest; I have got on my Sunday best:" A wink stood in his bright blue eye, And answered he, without a sigh— "Tobacco!" Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The girls, proposing to join the Sunday promenade on the Avenue later, were in their Sunday best when they presented themselves at the big, old-fashioned frame house on Capitol Hill. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story Blue and brown cashmeres for school and a green silk poplin for Sunday best—aren’t these little bows down the front cunning?” Chicken Little Jane They wore long trousers and roundabouts, and low shoes with light gray stockings, though their Sunday best were white. A Little Girl in Old New York The more the old woman thought of the dumpling the more she wanted it, and at last she dressed herself in her Sunday best and started out to seek an apple. The Story-teller Medley and I were not long in cleaning ourselves and putting on our Sunday best, and with our working clothes in our bags we stepped into Captain Bland’s boat. The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific Complacent matrons, in their Sunday best, exchanged voluble comments. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale He betook himself to the village tailor forthwith and ordered a new suit of clothes, though his Sunday best was by no means shiny yet. Marcia Schuyler I'm not going to dress up in Sunday best manners because you wear ruffled pantalets. A Little Girl in Old New York One brave all dressed in his Sunday best used to come and sit in the kitchen day after day. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Down below, the crew, having finished their labours for the day, were anxiously attiring themselves in their Sunday best. A Master Of Craft The women who donned their Sunday best that Saturday afternoon had an exhilarating sense of adventure. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale The new schoolmistress, a sour and uncompromising looking person, had issued from her cottage in her Sunday best to see the ceremony. The Daughters of Danaus She had all the latest quips of fashion at her tongue's end—what Margaret must have for school dresses, what for Sunday best, what lawns and ginghams and prints for summer. A Little Girl in Old New York Though dressed in the blue jacket and white duck trousers of the sailor’s Sunday best, at a glance you would pronounce him to be no seaman. Rattlin the Reefer Early on the morning of Independence Day Sammy stood at the door of the farmhouse arrayed in his Sunday best. Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand But none of the children would wear cottons, she knew—they all put on their Sunday best for the concert. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May "I suppose it's your Sunday best, with all that work." A Little Girl in Old Salem Tom was attiring himself in his Sunday best. Left End Edwards Mrs. Macdonald knocked at the door and stood before him arrayed in her Sunday best. The Village by the River Rebby and Anna both wore their Sunday best, but their dresses were carefully covered by their long pinafores. A Little Maid of Old Maine I feel,” looking down at his clothes, “as if I ought to have on my Sunday best.” White Lilac; or the Queen of the May His clothes were of the fashion of some years ago, and had, no doubt, served long as his 'Sunday best,' before being degraded to daily duty. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I am informed that she has tried to convert her Sunday best into a hobble skirt, reducing it in the process to something hopelessly ludicrous. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Men, women and children are in their Sunday best, and to all outward appearance scrupulously clean. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Then, while Robin, two bright spots of color burning in her cheeks, was showing them the212 new books, a group of mothers arrived, stiff and miserable in their Sunday best, and she shyly greeted them. Red-Robin But she would have been surprised, indeed, had she seen them, half an hour earlier, slip out of the back door, in a condition of exemplary tidiness, dressed in their Sunday best. The Terrible Twins Mrs. Barbara decided, and arraying herself in her Sunday best, she sallied forth to the vicarage. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 She commended the method to me, saying that it served very well on week days, but was lamentably detrimental to her Sunday best. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Other youths were wearing gaudy ties and imperilling their Sunday bests; he was letting precious time slip. The Place Beyond the Winds Looking up I found I was the object of curiosity among a crowd of civilians dressed in their Sunday best. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben My mother having decked me out in my Sunday best, I played my best piece, Beethoven's 'Sonata Path�tique.' Great Violinists And Pianists I suppose light work does not break the Sabbath, especially as it is done in our Sunday best, with sleeves tucked up, and an extra apron. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics I believe if she had her own way she'd be rigged out in her Sunday best the whole week long. Mildred's Inheritance Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way And the Castle was all decorated for the wedding, and there were crowds and crowds of servants and retainers, all dressed in their Sunday best. English Fairy Tales Why, down at Apsley, the rector comes and dines—for the sake of God—and respectability—and brings his daughters, dressed in their Sunday best—with low-necked frocks that make no pretence to be puritanical. Sally Bishop A Romance Well dressed men and women from the University and the lake shore, workingmen, smoking black pipes, pushing baby carriages, while their wives in Sunday best hung on their arms. Lydia of the Pines The sunshine knew it, wearing its calm Sunday best. Foes It was dressed in its Sunday best, in attire which fluctuated from bright tints of glaring newness to the dullness of well-brushed and obtrusive shabbiness. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Oh, he was in his Sunday best; His jacket was red, and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where his tail came through. English Satires Blue satin is a favorite style, always silk or satin for Sunday best: one I saw of pearl-white brocade. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters We could see passing groups of our neighbors, fathers and mothers shepherding little flocks of children in their Sunday best, trotting along with demure Sabbath faces on their way to church. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man This was no less a person than Miss Kathleen O'Hara, in her Sunday best. The Rebel of the School On that morning she was dressed In her very Sunday best; Feathers, frills and ribbons gay,— Proud was Mistress Poppenjay. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk Everything looked bright and gay at Dover—the cliffs seemed whiter than ever—the sailors had on clean trousers, and the few people that appeared in the streets were dressed in their Sunday best. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities And she told them a wonderful tale, far better than grandmother's Sunday best one. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Being dressed in her "Sunday best" and "before a poor candle-light," she appeared to good advantage; and the nephew concluded to start with her on the following Tuesday morning. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Mrs. Craven was in her Sunday best, and looked a very beautiful and almost aristocratic old lady. The Rebel of the School The Hegelians, to be sure, made merry over the Unknowable of Mr. Spencer, but their own Absolute is really just the Unknowable in its 'Sunday best'. Recent Developments in European Thought It was a joyful shock to see Joseph beside me, in the homely clothes which had replaced his "Sunday best"; to see Finois and his pack full of my friendly belongings. The Princess Passes A large concourse of people assembled at the funeral, dressed in their Sunday best. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry He shaved, bathed, laid out his Sunday best, re-read his precious letters, and dropped off to dreamless sleep. Copper Streak Trail He liked listening to Miss Stafford's artless merriment but he had no desire to share in it; what had he to say to a promoted schoolgirl in her Sunday best? Nightfall He loved that Wesleyan circle, the comfortable, safe community that knew only the best, the Sunday best, of him. The Divine Fire On this festive occasion three or four hundred persons of every age and condition dance around a well in Sunday best, rigged out in ribbons and with smiling faces. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 "You look the good workman in his Sunday best to a T!" said Lanstron. The Last Shot Would folk put on their Sunday best I' the week unless they looked to have it seen? Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. It is bordered by flaming fireweed and lined with the eager faces of children dressed in their Sunday best, ready for morning mass and awaiting the blessing of their Bishop. The New North The other five certainly looked neat enough, even though they did not wear their "Sunday best." The High School Boys in Summer Camp Inside, also dressed up in her Sunday best, sat the daughter; she was spinning as if she meant to turn out an entire skein of yarn that very day. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes After these parades there was dancing by the soldiers and belles who had bedecked themselves in their Sunday best and come out to be wooed by a soldier in blue. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives The next morning we overhauled our Sunday bests, and worried around trying to pick out something for a wedding present. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories Sunday best; the story of a Philadelphia family. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December The village in its Sunday best homespun, with here and there a suit of store goods, was holding its breath. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Another page and here was great-grandfather himself, in middle age, his picture—a faded daguerreotype—showing him in his Sunday best, but plainly in no Sunday mood. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 The large table was a dream of green and white, of silver and glass, and the men hung about awkwardly silent in their Sunday best. The Nine-Tenths Say, I'll bet she didn't like it any better than the rest, Sittin' 'round all stiff and starchy, dressed up in your Sunday best. Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse My sister had too much to do to go to church, but Joe and I went, arrayed in our Sunday best. Ten Boys from Dickens Don't I!—and the way the people glared and hurried by; and how you kept on alongside of me, talking and laughing, and looking your Sunday best. The Custom of the Country Beside these tramped old men and boys, mostly in their Sunday best as if they were going to church. Mr. Standfast I liked the look of the old peasants, and the women in their neat Sunday best, but I noticed, too, how pinched they were. Greenmantle I was got up in my Sunday best, for I wanted to make a hit with some fellow with a key up there, who'd make things soft and easy for my Tommy. In the Bishop's Carriage Singularly enough, just as I entered his yard gate, I met him and his wife, dressed in their Sunday best—looking as smiling as angels—on their way to church. My Bondage and My Freedom The crowded clientele were tourists, fishermen, local black folks in their Sunday best, and white Georgian locals who all seemed to bear an uncanny resemblance to Georgia humorist Lewis Grizzard. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Then a proletarian wedding procession—headed by the bride and bridegroom, an ungainly pair in their Sunday best—all singing noisily together. Peter Ibbetson She was driving from the yard when her aunt appeared, in her Sunday best. Home Again Happy fathers, too, with their wives and children in Sunday best, perambulate the grounds or rest on the seats amongst the trees and listen to the 'Bosch-muziek.' Dutch Life in Town and Country Tall lads, wearing their Sunday best, would stop them, joking and trying to catch them round their waists. L'Assommoir Every one was out and strolling up and down, laughing and whistling and chattering, dressed, although it was only Friday, in nearly their Sunday best. The Cathedral And he looked down at his clean suit and his Sunday best shoes. Seven O'Clock Stories For soon the streets began to be alive with groups of men and women, all in their Sunday best, going to make social calls. The Duke of Stockbridge Alas for Johnny's eager hopes, and alas for Pat's Sunday best! The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School They were dressed in unbelievable splendor—millions, she guessed, in far better than the best Sunday best she had ever seen. We Can't Have Everything It was Sunday morning and the people were going to church dressed in their Sunday best. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front She was just the sort of woman who can be seen by the hundred—laundress, seamstress, charwoman, caretaker, got up in her Sunday best. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation Esther's Sunday best was a blue, voile, a lovely blue, the colour of her eyes when in soft shadow. Up the Hill and Over In the house door appeared Marianne, quite broad in her Sunday best, holding Erick, of whom she kept a firm grasp, as if he might fall from there down again into the Woodbach. Erick and Sally A few villagers, in their Sunday best, stood by the wayside discussing some topic with languid interest, which they dropped, to wish us "bon jour" and tell us the road. Twixt France and Spain In her gown of dark woollen stuff and her black cap trimmed with yellow ribbons she retained the air of a peasant woman in her Sunday best. Fruitfulness Behind them, in a giggling group, strolled a dozen mill girls in their Sunday best. The Power and the Glory She was dressed in her Sunday best, bonnet and all. Cap'n Dan's Daughter Although it was her Sunday best, there was not a single thread of finery on it, and there was not a single crease nor spot. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Winding down again, we came to Ourous, to which apparently the inhabitants from all the other villages had come, dressed in their Sunday best, to mass. Twixt France and Spain There were a great many people out of doors—all the idle folks, clad in their Sunday best, whom the faintest sunshine draws in crowds to the promenades of Paris. Fruitfulness But just at that moment on the sands close to them two dark figures appeared, a fisherman in his Sunday best walking with his girl. December Love The children were dressed in their Sunday best, prepared for the coming exodus. Mr. Bingle A lively band was playing and the mob of good-humored, happy negroes, dressed in their Sunday best, laughing and joking, pushing and elbowing, made their way to the excursion train standing on the track. Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Groups of cavalry officers stood chatting with civilians in their Sunday best, and through the windows of the Golden Eagle we saw active preparations for a crowded mid-day dinner. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Her gown of dark woollen stuff, her black cape, black mittens, and black cap with yellow ribbons, gave her the appearance of a respectable countrywoman going to mass in her Sunday best. Fruitfulness The photograph showed Victoire in her Sunday best, and with her a boy of seventeen or eighteen. Arsene Lupin One would say that he was a horse-jockey dressed in his Sunday best. A Romance of Youth — Complete One would say that he was a horse- jockey dressed in his Sunday best. A Romance of Youth — Volume 2 Mother was at the side door watching, and Father was in his Sunday best, waiting to show us what would happen if we stopped, and that he never changes his mind. A Daughter of the Land I walked round him once or twice wishfully, measuring him in my eye, and thinking of what texture might be the Sunday best of such a man. Relics of General Chasse Clothes impart a certain quality, and, dressed in a charcoal burner's Sunday best, he began to bear himself like one. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve Mrs Jo had her hands full as President's lady, and the mother of Ted; for it took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best. Jo's Boys We were therefore in our Sunday best, our out-of-doors clothes: black frock coats and tall hats. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography People by twos and threes in their Sunday best filed slowly along the paths that connected farm to farm. Actions and Reactions She was dressed in her Sunday best, flowered poke bonnet, mitts, imitation India shawl, rustling black bombazine gown. Keziah Coffin He had not taken the time to return to the charcoal burner's hut for his uniform, and, when he approached his own lines he still wore the Sunday best of Perkins. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve My mother, dressed in her Sunday best, rose up, all in a flutter, to welcome her daughter-in-law that was to be. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English And the people, dressed in their Sunday best, were passing on their way to their different parish churches. Resurrection But mother said she thought I'd have a really truly white Sunday best dress out of it by the time she was through with it. Painted Windows So Elmville excitedly scraped kalsomine from the walls of the Palace Hotel with its Sunday best, and waited for the Voice to speak. Roads of Destiny Before long he overtook the old laborer, who was dressed in his Sunday best, and creeping slowly along the road. The Country Doctor The working class, dressed in its Sunday best, was out taking the air and observing the effects of the strike. The Strength of the Strong |
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