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He had insisted on taking her to Manchester, and, in spite of many protests, had bought her what she called finery only fit for a lass. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Judgment] Reference
All of that finery is hidden under their look-alike robes. From Wordnik.com. [Trial by attire: Supreme Court look should go with everything we believe in] Reference
A short while before midnight the gods adorned themselves in finery and jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Mythology and legends of the Nahua people: part 3] Reference
But this hulking mass in Italian finery didn’t even seem phased. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-23] Reference
All his finery was a red and purple blur before her tear-filled eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
He’d stay awake, pretending that this finery was all his. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Adorned in finery, in raiment fair. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
These are particularly prominent occasions, calling for extra "finery" and parade. From Wordnik.com. [A slaveholder's daughter,] Reference
Poor old Dill's "finery" consisted of a white waistcoat with gold buttons, and an embroidered shirt-front. From Wordnik.com. [East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter] Reference
The finery which is provided for the girl for house wear is of a nature to make her appearance on the street impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade] Reference
Chicken Little looked from them to her own silken finery regretfully. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
"We have not come for beauty, or for finery; we want to see the girl!". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
And he turned again to the mirror as if to take a last admiring view of his finery. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Elizabeth brought out her little stores of finery to discuss their artistic features. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Buried in baby finery, this unsuspecting new-comer slumbered contentedly in a dainty cot. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
(Soundbite of music) LIM: The whole village is watching, dressed in their festival finery. From Wordnik.com. [China's Leaders Harness Folk Religion For Their Aims] Reference
But girlishness, construed to mean just a love of dress and finery, does not make womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
I was ready to give; but not a dime was I goin 'to give towards puttin' finery on a man's back. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
This new trim designation denotes a full-featured model, augmented with even more uplevel finery. From Wordnik.com. [If Ford closes Mercury, what does it mean to you?] Reference
The proud cousins, in all their finery, had by this time come to the door, but nobody wanted them. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
Fine dismisses such conclusions as nothing more than "sexism disguised in neuroscientific finery.". From Wordnik.com. ['Delusions of Gender' argues that faulty science is furthering sexism] Reference
Rarely does he refer to them except to rate them for their extravagance in dress and love of finery. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Take a peek into Jon Nickman's brilliant capturing of a Greater Love expressing Itself in all Her finery. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: An Equinox Prescription for Love, This Autumn] Reference
Maggie accepted the ten-pound note but refused the silk dress, telling the lad that she had no use for such finery. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
We put on our best clothes, dress the table in all its finery and create a feast worthy of this most special of days. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Schler: Creating New Family Traditions: A Recipe for Rosh Hashana] Reference
This piece of finery, which drew everybody's attention to the wearer, was the famous bracelet picked up in the street. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Farther on, there is one of those superb carved mother-of-pearl coffers, in which Oriental women lay by their finery and jewellery. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To this end she decks herself with dashing finery and tawdry trappings, and with bold, unwomanly mien essays the streets of the great city. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
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