Trimmed

Examples

• Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He trimmed the lamp, arranged his table, and said, Now, I am ready to begin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• However, old frocks were trimmed, and new bonnets made, and the young ladies looked as well as could possibly have been expected of them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Holmes walked slowly up and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the outsides of the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Heel trimmed and shoe ready for finishing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This lamp is smoking again; I should think the servants might see that it's kept properly trimmed, he grumbled nervously. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My blue housedress looks so well, turned and freshly trimmed, that I feel as if I'd got a new one. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was dressed and trimmed into no ceremony of expression. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The bust is covered with silk, satin, or any fine dress material, and trimmed to represent a lady’s low-necked dress bodice with short shoulder sleeves. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A board was by these means perfectly trimmed and smoothed from end to end, as it was carried against the cutters by suitable moving means. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Her simple bonnet had been trimmed to correspond with her sash; her pretty but inexpensive scarf of white crape suited her dress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It isn't made or trimmed, sighed Meg, faintly, for a sudden recollection of the cost still to be incurred quite overwhelmed her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Reflecting on the absurdity of giving way to such feelings, however, he trimmed the light again, and read as follows:-- A MADMAN'S MANUSCRIPT 'Yes! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They are then trimmed and scraped by hand, after which the real tanning process begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At which his mother merely pursed her lips under the lace veil that hung down from her grey velvet bonnet trimmed with frosted grapes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I always said it would come to this, the Baronet cried peevishly, and beating a tune with his clean-trimmed nails. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The sleeves were tight, and it came rather high upon the breaSt. It was very full-trimmed, with a double row of the same buttons Julia wore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So he raked together the yet warm cinders in the rusty grate, and made a fire, and trimmed the candle on the little counter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One would have the sails trimmed sharper than another, so that they seemed to have no certain rule to govern by. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They are so particular that even bruises must be trimmed out before the animals are allowed to pass and go on with the bulk which are fit for food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The limbs had been trimmed and pointed, and thus formed an abatis in front of the greater part of the line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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