The dress is silk dupioni and the pinafore is a fine batiste with french lace insertion and embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
A small child in a pinafore with ribbon on her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann] Reference
"What?" says Peggs, drying her eyes on her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover] Reference
Is this a little doggie you have rolled up in your pinafore?. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
Here poor Bunny broke down and hid her face in her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children] Reference
"I'll see that he doesn't spoil his pinafore or mess up his curls.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
Bittie Betina tears off her pinafore and runs straight to the water. From Wordnik.com. [How Bittie Betina Learned to Fly] Reference
Oh dear, oh dear! look at your clean pinafore, wet from top to bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
On the doorstep he met little Susy, with her lilac pinafore in flames. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Lionheart] Reference
"I cleared up the porch," and Betty's clean pinafore rose and fell with. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference
I wore a blue pinafore to the wake& ate sandwiches by myself on the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Young Skin] Reference
But a young man of nineteen ought not to be attached to his mother's pinafore!. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
"Yes, and I got cross too," cried Bunny, putting down her pinafore for a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children] Reference
And now let me try on the pinafore for baby; I want to see whether it will fit. '. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Mary] Reference
"The little girls will laugh at me," she said, drying her tears with her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
His frock set off this petted appearance -- it gave you the idea of a pinafore on him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
She just had time to slip on a clean pinafore, and then hurried after her down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Tom found her there, drying and smearing her face with an earthy corner of her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Elizabeth rose slowly to her feet and stood working a corner of her pinafore into a knot. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
The little girl grew white, then red, then white again, and went on twisting her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Her mother wrapped her pinafore round the place, but could do no more, as such sights make her ill. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
"I saw -- you in the lane," she faltered, then caught up her veil as though it had been a pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
Elizabeth hung her head again, and her dimpled chin hid itself behind the needlework of her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Robed in a pinafore, with her beads and a sash, and a flower in her hand, she looked "like an angel child.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
"Don't dirty that nice clean pinafore, Joan; and Darby, see that you wash your hands properly before dinner.". From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
The little girl in the blue gingham dress and white frilled pinafore looked at her small hostess reproachfully. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
I told Mother if she wanted me to be English to the extent of wearing a pinafore, I should lie down and die and. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
We have produced a doll for her, and it is delightful to see her mothering it and wrapping it up in her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
"She's getting mad," said the little girl in the pink dress and white frilled pinafore -- sister to the blue dress. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
When the production is over, she snips a button from her famous pinafore dress and gives it to him as a souvenir. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
While her husband was soliloquizing thus, Mrs. Mathers was busily engaged in stitching a smart little pinafore of diaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
And with tears and smiles together the child clung to her father and hugged the almost suffocated kitten in her pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Lionheart] Reference
Also, I was wearing a pinafore over a white smock and Buster Brown shoes; these may have attracted the children as well. From Wordnik.com. [My Date With Satan] Reference
Lottie had fallen asleep on the wide bench beyond the cookstove, a great bunch of posies hugged against her stained pinafore. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Moreover, the kind of it is suitable; a great thing; for we hold a Pascal in a pinafore to be as great an outrage as a learned pig. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
"Cross my heart, an 'hope to die," said the child earnestly, making across her pinafore the mystic sign, so potent to the childish mind. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
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