Before sunscreen I probably would have used a parasol. From LearnThat.org.
Pyramids of Egyptthe real lady's maid, with or without the pink parasol, is far more inappropriate on shipboard. From Wordnik.com. [Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,] Reference
The parasol was a silk one, no longer new, tied round with old elastic. From Wordnik.com. [The Darling and Other Stories] Reference
Her parasol was a mere rose-leaf for size -- about as big as a silver three-cent piece. From Wordnik.com. [Queer Stories for Boys and Girls] Reference
I was going to come up with some kind of parasol, a shield to keep the sunlight off. From Wordnik.com. [Roger MacBride]
Her parasol is Japanese. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
"Type XII" was never a great success, though the ancestor of the popular "parasol" type. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeroplane Speaks] Reference
In 1913-14 came the French military type with Gnome engine and finally the "parasol," 1915. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeroplane Speaks] Reference
The parasol is a religious symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Gelug Conference] Reference
A parasol is the first necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
The children Oh-ed and Ah-ed over her hat and parasol. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The "green parasol" was to be avoided at all rates, the two. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Sir Peter adjusted his eyeglass, and peeped under the parasol. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
She suggests a silk parasol, a kimono, or a dozen handkerchiefs. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Japanese parasol, who stood over his chair while Cora fanned him. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
"You really shouldn't do that," she said to me, under her parasol. From Wordnik.com. [When It Rains It Pours] Reference
The lady turned to Judge Sharp, and shook her mourning parasol at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Her doll's got the loveliest pink silk and a hat and parasol to match. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
It might be a hat and parasol like Stella's -- it might be a silk dress. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
She approached beside the boxwood hedge, holding a parasol and dressed in. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She held her parasol with her left hand, the other hand played with violets. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When Araminta went away she flung over her shoulder a parasol and a Parthian taunt. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Lounge under a parasol at Italida beach or dip into the electric-blue waters of Pori Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean Escape] Reference
"Well, let them wait until they are butterflies before perching on my parasol," she retorted. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
I could see the bridge ahead, and a woman with a parasol staring down into the murky water. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir] Reference
Each day, however, the "green parasol" became more elevated, the measured tread more majestic. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Reaching an overhang at the front entrance, she stopped to close her parasol and to firm up her resolve. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
He could barely afford a parasol at Nikki Beach, much less the moelleux au chocolat chaud at Restaurant Joseph. From Wordnik.com. [LETTER FROM FRANCE: CALL ME IN SEPTEMBER] Reference
(Soundbite of applause) Mr. EBERT: That's what Mr. Bernstein should have said to that lady with the white parasol. From Wordnik.com. [Siskel and Ebert's 'At The Movies' Takes Final Bow] Reference
Leaning her parasol into a corner near the entrance, she searched in her purse until she found a small handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
"The roof is the big parasol protector that opens to the north and east where our breezes come from," says the architect. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing Sydney] Reference
The tall couple in the right foreground stroll in perfect and symmetric profile in full Sunday attire with cane and parasol. From Wordnik.com. [A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte] Reference
Looking all around, he saw a parasol standing in a corner near the door, but he figured it belonged to the young man inside. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
"The roof is the big parasol protector that opens to the north and east, where our breezes come from," explains the architect. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, The Bad, The Boring] Reference
AKIO MORITA WAS ONCE embarrassed by a tiny bamboo parasol, the kind that came with a dish of ice cream in Germany in the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. ['We Have Lost A Very Important Player'] Reference
To emphasis its pattern, the skirt of Geoffrey Holder's dress for his wife, was painstakingly pieced, like segments of a parasol. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: What Smart People Wear] Reference
Up I followed the purple dress through a skyward corridor until she opened a small parasol and alighted down into a circular room. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
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