Skirts

Examples

• Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whinbury, walk forward into the little parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The brushing of skirts and elbows, sometimes the bumping of shoulders, could be heard against the very panels. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Is it there that the men wear skirts as do the women? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Two or three times, by the way, I thought I observed in the indistinct light the skirts of a female figure going up before us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What provoking burr has been inconveniently attracted to the charming skirts, and with difficulty shaken off? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thereupon all the young ladies rose and began shaking their skirts out behind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But it seems to me that with enough _cojones_ you would not wear skirts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But under your skirts, Pablo insisted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The sweeping style suits you best, and you must learn to trail your skirts gracefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• No one remained now but the excitable Jew, who had already raised the skirts of Mr. Jaggers's coat to his lips several times. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Since it is well known that you wear skirts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When you are wearing those skirts, Pablo went on, what do you wear under them? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not a particle of evidence, Pip, said Mr. Jaggers, shaking his head and gathering up his skirts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The carriage announced, Mrs Lammle said; 'Don't mind me, Mr Fledgeby, my skirts and cloak occupy both my hands, take Miss Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Unknown birds flutter round the skirts of that forest; no European river this, on whose banks Rose sits thinking. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then wet umbrellas began to appear, draggled skirts, and mud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Twice I have told you that we do not wear skirts, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What do you wear under your skirts, _Ingl閟? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What do you wear under your skirts in your country? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He heard a murmur of skirts beside him, and the Marchioness Manson fluttered out of the drawing-room window. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mr Birkin likes the girl best, under the hawthorn blossom, with a lamb, and with daffodils painted on her skirts, in the drawing room. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And she really did, for she knocked down little chairs with her skirts that were quite a great way off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The boy stood shyly regarding his father through his curls, holding close to the skirts of his mother's dress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Hold on by each other's skirts, if necessary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When you wear skirts like that, _Ingl閟_-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And if you keep it under your skirts like that, who's to help tumbling? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I saw in the middle of that ghostly chamber a figure all black and white; the skirts straight, narrow, black; the head bandaged, veiled, white. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Darrell