| 单词 | hoopskirt |
| 例句 | The hoopskirt of my favorite dress kept popping back up like a child who refuses to lie down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z At length Mrs. Weidenbach separated the two old warriors, though her hoopskirt got in the way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. L. J Weidenbach was there too, in a vast hoopskirt, holding her daddy upright. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Fern did Vonetta one better, daintily holding out her skirt hem as if she wore a hoopskirt, and said, “I’m Fern, but my mother calls me Afua.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I touched the bag where the hoopskirt begged for release. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The hostess greeted everyone in a damask hoopskirt, and the refreshments were made from Colonial recipes. Mariette Himes Gomez Decorates a Historic Washington, D.C. Home 2014-01-13T05:00:00Z “You can’t really jitterbug in a hoopskirt or bustle,” he wrote. Wilfrid Sheed, Writer of Gentle Wit, Dies at 80 2011-01-19T19:15:32Z Contemplating the employees, she pictures herself as “the Black mistress of a tiny plantation” or “wearing a hoopskirt and waving her lace fan at Xochitl, across a gulf, from the wrong side of history.” This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Tiny hoopskirt blossoms the color of buttermilk appeared in early April atop slender 6-inch stems. Fall is the time to plant daffodils — here's how to keep the bloom going 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z On the platform, I saw a white woman in a bonnet and a blue hoopskirt, holding the hands of two well-dressed children. “Conduction” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z This morning, Mr. Roman leads the way to a Stryker in a hoopskirt of heavy-duty steel grating called slat armor. To Protect Soldiers From Bombs, Military Scientists Build a Better Dummy 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Despite her hoopskirts, O’Hara is the most physically free I’ve ever seen her. Outsiders Take Center Stage 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Yesterday Milady of Manhattan in her hoopskirt and crinoline; today Milady in thick furs above her knees and thin silk stockings and high-heeled pumps below them: tomorrow.... The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z Thomas Hardy, the idol of the younger realists and the liberator of British fiction from the Victorian hoopskirt and the happy ending, is not a realist. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Their hoopskirts were so vast that the upper part of their bodies seemed to be poised on balloons; the door of the salon was scarcely wide enough to allow them to pass through. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Over this was stretched the hoopskirt and over it a sheet, and, behold a beautiful, cozy Sibley tent for two or three children to sleep under. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Susan Barrows was living in the days of hoopskirts, and now in her effort to slide through the window had been held fast. The Loves of Ambrose Crinolines and hoopskirts were easier to stitch by machine than by hand, and these items had a spirited period of popularity due to the introduction of the sewing machine. The Invention of the Sewing Machine It may be well imagined that I preferred to paint her in a plain gown and especially without a wide hoopskirt. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun But Phil�mon suddenly spied between two hoopskirts the gentleman who had been introduced as a wealthy Italian count. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z So are the old spinning wheel and hand loom, “And e’en the old hoopskirt which hung on the wall, The old hoopskirt The steel-ribbed shirt, The old hoopskirt which hung on the wall.” The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z No one has as yet suggested that we compel the angels to wear hoopskirts, although "September Morn" has been compelled, by police regulation, to don a sweater. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex She is plainly dressed in homespun cloth and does not wear hoopskirts. A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln Around they went in a giddy whirl and starched petticoats stood out like hoopskirts. The Lady Doc How many hoopskirts will it take To fill a trolley car up? The New Pun Book Our women managed the trains and the hoopskirts just as tactfully and thoroughly and gracefully as they did their hard-headed husbands and silly sweethearts. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Count me in, girls, and you'll find me at the Liberty Shop early and late, where I promise to sell anything from an old hoopskirt to a decayed piano at the highest market price. Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls She and Alice wore the costumes of generations ago, big bonnets and hoopskirts. The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm It would be a nice inquiry whether the hoopskirt was not introduced—it was midway in the eighteenth century, I think—at the time of the first budding of romantic sentiment. Journeys to Bagdad On entering the shop, the visitor is amused by finding a lot of little urchins occupied in making ladies’ hoopskirts of the latest fashionable design; nearly 100 are engaged in the crinoline department. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City In the fifties the modistes of Paris, whose word, however absurd, was law to the women of the civilized world, sent out the famous hoopskirt. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z An enterprising newspaper man immediately invented and sent broadcast the story that he had been captured trying to escape in his wife's hoopskirts. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Though they undeniably presented a pretty picture in their paint, powder, curls and hoopskirts, they were also an unusual one for that little country village. The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm "I put on a hoopskirt one time," she said. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 The girls are also employed in making hoopskirts, in making clothes for themselves and the boys, in all sorts of repairing, in washing linen, and in general housework. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City One thing in the management of the hoopskirt the men never could understand. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Kemp, with a black rubber cape buttoned about his shoulders and standing out over his load like a lady's hoopskirts, bobbed down the path and was gone. The Trumpeter Swan "Will our leading citizens want to be photographed in their old hoopskirts, with roses behind their ears?" Mrs. Red Pepper I'm a dingy old shadow in a daguerreotype picture, in pantalets, cuddled up against my mother's hoopskirt. A Hoosier Chronicle In the house, Mrs. Croix discarded the hoopskirt, and the classic folds of her soft muslin gown revealed a figure as superb in contour as it was majestic in carriage. The Conqueror When the hoopskirt first came, it looked as if Paris had sent out the greatest of all the absurdities. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z The first five feet had revealed nothing but fragments of kitchen pottery of our time and a fairly perfect hoopskirt of Garibaldian date. The Collectors The judge thought the exercise she had taken must have been too severe, and probably the hoopskirt was not sufficiently nutritious. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Inez, as they descended, noted many women clad in the exaggerated hoopskirts, the curious, short, gathered bodices and the low hats of the early forties. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts An old hoopskirt came with it, and Betsy laughed and threw it away. Tik-Tok of Oz In their fatigue outfit our mothers laid aside the hoopskirt and tucked up what was left. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z She had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories During the night she must have got to walking in her sleep, for she climbed over the fence; and when she was discovered, she was swallowing one of Mrs. Twiddler's hoopskirts. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot On entering the shop, the visitor is amused by finding a lot of little urchins occupied in making ladies' hoopskirts of the latest fashionable design; nearly 100 are engaged in the crinoline department. The Secrets of the Great City The thing frightened Hank, who had never seen a hoopskirt before, and he kept a good distance away from it. Tik-Tok of Oz It had a woodcut frontispiece of Little Robert in a roundabout and baggy trousers, inadequately embracing his cowering mother's hoopskirt, while his father, the Drunkard in question, staggered remorsefully back. The Wishing-Ring Man Her hoopskirt was small, but the other women were inclined to the extreme of the fashion; as they saw it in the Godey's Lady's Book they or their dressmakers subscribed to. Sleeping Fires: a Novel He's more fun than a Harlem goat with a hoopskirt. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero The hoopskirt fisher-dames were just where we had left them some hours before, and were still too much absorbed in doing nothing to waste time looking at us. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan A corroded section of stovepipe mailed in barnacles, or the skeleton of a hoopskirt protruding from the tide mud like the remains of some old-time wreck, is apt to break the enchantment. An Old Town By the Sea She stood among them, silent, immense, clad in her dark purple silk gown spread over a great hoopskirt. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories |
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