| 单词 | hope chest |
| 例句 | Eeben’s plane was hundreds of feet up in the air already, way over the clouds, when I suddenly remembered my hope chest! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I remember our hope chests and want to laugh, for how prophetic they were. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hope chest was securely hidden away and guarded. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In it were a dress and a coloring notebook of Ruth May’s, pieces of our hope chests, my bow and arrows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom stored Ivy’s great-grandmother’s hope chest up here in the attic, which became Ivy’s room a few months ago so the twins could have their own space. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It would be trousseau, and the entire contents of what under different circumstances would have been a hope chest. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother announced that now we girls could use our idle time to build up our hope chests. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It rattled the latch on her hope chest and her father’s old worry beads lying on top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And Ruth May was exempt from hope chest, but was allowed to lie in a hammock with us and make cat’s cradles out of yarn if she promised not to run off and break something. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, they don’t have a penny to their name and nothing in the way of a hope chest. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He was merely giving to them just the start, like other people get an inheritance, a hope chest of what they would work hard for in the rest of their lives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Desdemona, weeping, takes off the corset, folds it back up, and returns it to the hope chest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Kenyon had built the chest himself: a mahogany hope chest, lined with cedar, which he intended to give Beverly as a wedding present. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She adjusted her dagger, and for a moment Piper thought about her own blade, Katoptris, which was now locked in her hope chest in her cabin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She did her hope chest already, so she can. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The book was more like a portable, papery hope chest. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another woman, shot in a simple pink frock and turban, sits with her hope chest in an otherwise bare room animated only by her challenging gaze. T Magazine: Zwelethu Mthethwa's 'Brave Ones' 2013-01-31T14:00:59Z My mother was thrilled and began filling a series of plastic bins with cookware and china as a sort of modern-day hope chest. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Another group of photographs at the gallery shows older women posing with the hope chests they were given as brides. T Magazine: Zwelethu Mthethwa's 'Brave Ones' 2013-01-31T14:00:59Z I’ve been fortunate to have been given a beloved hope chest and dining room pieces used by my great-grandparents, and I love them more every year. 5 reasons to invest in wood furniture 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The dowry was replaced with a marriage chest, also known as a trousseau or hope chest. Who gets to have a gift registry? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z When I was a teenager and Seventeen magazine still came in the mail, I used to marvel at the ads for hope chests. The wallpaper that is also a ‘reminder that my ancestors had my back’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “I even straddled a hope chest Becki’s dad made for her,” he says, laughing. Minister’s book on slain wife, son, and unexpected healing 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z There’s the hope chest made of Nigerian walnut and teak. Local man’s wooden sculptures represent mix of faith, love 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Another demand of granivory, or seed predation, is the power to withstand the many defensive chemicals that plants pack into their genetic hope chests. Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The place smelled like a giant hope chest, but Rowan, who has been carving since he was six, has lost his nose for cedar. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Moreover, you’re probably a south-east Asian or Middle Eastern investor who’s buying the little box not as a domicile, but as a magical hope chest in the confines of which your money will grow. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z But these secrets, the scraps of paper on which Senators write their wishes, vouchsafed in a hope chest at the National Archives, are so precious that they can’t even be trusted to a back room. Congress Will Keep Senators' Tax Reform Wishes Secret—for 50 Years 2013-07-25T14:12:40Z It used to be the practice for each young girl to have a "hope chest" into which she put linens, etc., against the wedding day. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z I'm sure no hope chest of mine will ever be more important than this vacation trunk. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening All her spare change and waking hours were spent buying and embroidering linen for the “hope chest” that spoke of her determined confidence in the realization of her ambition. The Fighting Shepherdess She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights. The Gay Cockade Her "hope chest" in the attic was full to overflowing, and quite unique in itself, as it consisted of an old, in fact ancient, wooden dough-tray used in times past by Aunt Sarah's grandmother. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" "There's a fine place for the cage in my room—on my hope chest." The Wrong Twin It was a big, burl-maple box, designed after the hope chests that he saw advertised in magazines. The Harvester “Starlight” had thought highly of the undertaking, and Mrs. Taylor, knowing that Miss Maggie’s hope chest was full to overflowing, encouraged it. The Fighting Shepherdess It was the last of the half dozen towels she had worked for Jessica's hope chest. Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus The lessons Mary learned that summer on the farm while filling her hope chest and preparing her mind for wifehood were of inestimable value to her in later years. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" "She says it's the most romantic way to be married, and she means to throw her hope chest out of the window first and slide down a rope made of bedsheets." Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm Anne and Miriam are both away, and Nora and Jessica are too deep in the mysteries of hope chests and wedding finery to be dragged off on even the most delightful of midsummer pilgrimages. Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus |
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