The mantilla was a handsome one, and she thanked Mrs. Ross effusively. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Box and What it Contained] Reference
Her fat, massive face was painted and powdered; on her head she wore a kind of mantilla also gold-coloured, and about her neck a string of old Egyptian amulets. From Wordnik.com. [Love Eternal] Reference
British chintz, with a mantilla of coarser material. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
How lovely Maria looked in that black lace mantilla!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Just before that we saw the queen of Spain with her lace mantilla on her head. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005] Reference
She was dressed in a black silk gown, and wore a long black mantilla over her head. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Her furs were thrown back, and the black mantilla had slipped down to her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
She was very beautiful — stark-white skin, dark eyes, a mantilla in her black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
She wrapt her mantilla over her head, and walked down the flight of steps into the park. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Some trifle of a lace mantilla was thrown over her head, and in her right hand she balanced. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The two stood there face to face; she settled her mantilla, looking down at it as she did so. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
As she sat with them she wore a finely-spun black lace mantilla, or shawl, around her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Rita, a peasant woman, came out to wait upon me, in a long white mantilla, topped by a black felt. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
"Peace be to his manes!" she said at last, as she carefully folded up a huge black crape mantilla. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
They wore hats and mantillas in about the same proportion; but the bride wore a black mantilla and. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
The ladies are in gala costume, and drag their trains behind them, all wearing the national mantilla. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
P. S — Do you know, if we go to the theatre, I think that I shall wear my new hat and black mantilla. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
A tall, slender young man, with Georges's figure and carriage, arm-in-arm with a woman in a lace mantilla. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The ladies wear the mantilla; and the women of the poorer classes wear a petticoat and small jacket, generally of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Father Conmee doffed his silk hat and smiled, as he took leave, at the jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A black, shawl-like mantilla was over the head, partly concealing her face; her right foot was upon the left-hand rail. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
A woman with a lace mantilla hanging askew over a dress of horizon blue screamed encouragement to one side or the other. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
“Women are not all coquettes,” she said, as she took off her bonnet and mantilla, and laid them carefully on a chair. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
She wound a crimson shawl gracefully over her dark head, after the fashion of a mantilla, with an effect beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
And instantly the music ceased; Marcia started to her feet; the dancer pulled off her mantilla, and the flower dropped from her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
She caressed her neck affectionately, called for her black lace mantilla, her long, black silk dolman lined with red, and she was ready. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Across the end of one of the sofas lay a guitar of satin-wood, inlaid with mother-o'-pearl, with a Spanish lace mantilla by the side of it, and on. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Florine the jealous and the happy Coralie had entangled me once more in the folds of mantilla and basquina, and their little feet were twinkling in my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
She took Mary by the hand, when she came down, with her plain mantilla and cottage bonnet on, surveyed her keenly from head to foot, and led her into the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
It was decidedly disappointing to find they had almost invariably discarded the graceful and becoming lace head-dress and mantilla, and adopted the French costume. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Loanda wore; and not content with making cocoons of their bodies, they wore over their heads, as a mantilla, some dozen yards or so of black cloth into the bargain. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
The woman who sat in it had a mantilla of black lace over her head and shoulders, and with one slender jewelled hand she kept its fold over the greater part of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
When all was finished, and the lace mantilla fastened to my comb and draped about my shoulders, I was moved by Barbara's cries of admiration to cast one glance upon the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
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