The daffodil breaks underfoot, and the tasselled larch. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
Through green-tasselled cornfields our columns were thrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
As the murmuring wind swept o'er it, bending low each tasselled head. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
And he slightly lifted his tasselled cap and replaced it on his head. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
In the uncertain light, but for those slippers and the long-tasselled. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
The roadside is all fringed and tasselled with white, pink, and purple. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
He exposed a small, wrinkled, stained, embroidered and tasselled glove. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
The face beneath the tasselled bicorne hat twitched in involuntary spasm. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
He wore a tasselled nightcap and had a black woollen gown over his long nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
Helm opened his clasp-knife and cut away the tasselled cords that secured the covering. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Over her, like a swaying flower, a tiny parasol reared on a long tasselled stalk, held in. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
He was wearing the same tasselled nightcap he had worn during the battle on Bussaco's ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
I was wearing flared hipster jeans, a tasselled suede cowboy top and black, high-heeled boots. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
The western most, backed by a long, grassy, palm-tasselled bank, is called Zungá chyá Bundiká. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Her delicate hands were peacefully folded below her breast, her feet rested on a tasselled cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The tasselled silk banners blazed, and the sight of them prompted a sudden cannonade from the ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
Do you see all those soft green points looking down on you while the tasselled branches gently sway?. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
He opened the casket, drew forth a small silk-tasselled parchment roll, and laid it open upon the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Within minutes he had reached a larger group of warriors attired like himself in furs and tasselled iron helmets. From Wordnik.com. [The Bane of The Black Sword]
One fortunate Frenchman found a cavalryman's body that sported a fine pair of brown-topped, silk-tasselled boots. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
Sabin reined about, seized a tasselled lance that was quivering upright in the ground and spurred to join the fray. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
They can cut when they please, whether the cane be tasselled or not, and they can plant, cut, and grind at one time!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Habit of the Augustinian Canons, the hands joined in prayer, and the tonsured head reposing upon a tasselled cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
She lets her tasselled silken cloak slip down, and only her purple ring still glows, her vinous, her amethystine ring. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Tuma Nogo crossed to the pillar with half a dozen strides and seized the gold-tasselled border of the tabernacle cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
A small brass bell with a tasselled pulley dangled beside a heavy wooden door reinforced with bands of exquisite wrought iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
There was even a fringed and tasselled covering to the mantelpiece and a profusion of framed photographs on every available ledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
Grimshaw walked slowly -- he was a man of great physical laziness -- slashing his cane at the tasselled tips of the crowding larches. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
You ride camels, it seems, in nipple-tasselled leotards, and you cheat on your husband with the carpenter who left you in season four. From Wordnik.com. [Is it time to put Sex and the City out of its misery?] Reference
The merchant was robed for bed and had a tasselled nightcap falling over the left side of his face, but he listened to Sharpe, then grinned. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
Aerial roots, thin as whipcord, hung from the branches of trees crowding on the brink of the ravine, and with tasselled terminals sopped up moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.