Noun : an overseas ribbon. ,clothes torn to ribbons. From Dictionary.com.
Taking from the hand of Guiscard the riband and star of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
He wore a scarlet uniform, with the riband and badge of the Garter. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
"Or even shower its ardours upon a piece of white riband?" cried Miss Le. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
"Make your mind easy, Frank; William Wellington sha'n't finger a riband.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
“I have not a single piece of string or riband to bind the caul with.”. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Quite a simple thing, the simpler the better, and a white sash of satin riband. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
There had not been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure at. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829] Reference
You want to earn money for yourself this next month to buy your white riband with. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
And so the reputation of wit and great learning does the office of a blue riband or. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Perhaps she saw nothing beyond the beginning of her riband, but she held out her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
He too saw in that length of satin, now soiled and crumpled, more than a white riband. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
The white riband seemed no impossible fantasy to Loveday when she started on her quest. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
With a piece of riband to be attached to the buttonhole, Napoleon could make an army of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
I remember noticing that green mark on the riband when the wreath was laid on the grave. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
It is worn by women on the left shoulder, attached to a black watered riband tied in a bow. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
The girl had been walking towards me, swinging by its riband a garden hat, for the air was hot. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Day dawned she had but tenpence for all her store -- and the riband would cost as many shillings. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
Madgy folded the riband across the half-open eyes and wound the ends about the discoloured throat. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
Saying this, he kissed the talisman, wrapped it up in a riband, and tied it carefully about his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
This is worn on the left breast, and attached to a button-hole of the waistcoat by a green silk riband. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828] Reference
Down go my lord bishop's apron, and his Grace's blue riband, and my lady's brocade petticoat in the mud. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
It was a strip of thin, fine deerskin, bound with a narrow black riband and tied with a leathern string. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
Upon that I set to, and managed to produce a piece of riband, and to fasten it in the required position. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Hans Stanley is to go Ambassador to Russia; and my nephew, Ellis, to Spain, decorated with the red riband. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
His velvet knee-breeches and the wide riband which tied his queue were of the same rich shade of dark green. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
I can't sufficiently tell 'ee what it means to me to get my length of riband and dance in the Flora come May. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
A very curious group surround the old nobleman, who is adorned with a riband, a star, and a pair of spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Once, it was noted, he even halted before a counter of the Gostini Dvor, and there purchased the riband of an order. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
Of pure gold chased and pierced, it is worn by the knight elect pendant from a red riband across the right shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
The knights are to wear a silver star with nine points, and a straw-coloured riband from the right shoulder to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849] Reference
The general level of the country is low, in the midst of fresh-water lakes, divided from the sea by a narrow riband of land. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Bill Tidd: a very pale young man, with a black riband round his neck instead of a handkerchief, and his collars turned down like. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference
Bishop of Salisbury, wearing complacently the blue riband and badge of the Garter, of which Noble Order his lordship was prelate. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
One of the men would have taken the riband from her, with some vague notion of returning it, though whether to the graveyard or to the. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
The moonlight is sufficient to disclose the pale riband-like surface of the way as it trails along between the expanses of darker fallow. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
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