Bonnets

Examples

• The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The door was opened; the pony-carriage was ordered; shawls and bonnets were demanded; Mr. Helstone called for his niece. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• 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.
• It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their mamma, however, signifying acquiescence in the project, they fetched their bonnets, and the trio set out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Her mamma ordered her dresses, her books, her bonnets, and her ideas for her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ladies' bonnets? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Behind which follow stragglers of the Garde-du-Corps; all humiliated, in Grenadier bonnets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And as for the pink bonnets (here from under the heavy eyebrows there came a knowing and not very pleasing leer)--why boys will be boys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Their bonnets with bright flowers, their velvet cloaks and silk dresses, seemed better suited for park or promenade than for a damp packet deck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In a minute I had my face under their bonnets, in contact first with Mary's soft cheek, then with Diana's flowing curls. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Why do you wear such dresses and bonnets, mamma, such as nobody else ever wears? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So 'tis with her little bonnets and that. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They wrapped their scarves closer round them, resumed their bonnets, which they had removed, and again watched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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