Sentences with phrase «kerchief over»

I imagine that his face was full of disgust, but I couldn't see it — he held a kerchief over his nostrils while issuing a series of sneezes, and he stopped sneezing only to hover his boot above our onion and cast an eclipsing shadow over the tiny globe.

Somewhere on a red dirt road flanked by corrugated tin lean - tos painted blue / green like a sea that is nowhere to be found, by waxy green leaves of false banana trees and round huts the same color as the ground, miles every day she walks in rubber flip flops toward the well and back again, red kerchief over her braids, carrying a burden of water, dreaming a shared dream.

Given, now, a handsome señorita, with fine oval face and large, soft eyes, and broad, low brow and a strain of pure Castilian blood, to show red - warm through olive cheeks, a white kerchief over her bosom, and a glimpse of amber or gold beads about her throat, and the low, gray, wide - roofed adobe, scarlet - hued with festoons of red peppers, the whole seen against the burnt umber or yellow of the hills and under the pearly haze of a morning in September, and you have a grouping of such splendid color as would delight the heart of a painter.

Not exact matches

His sleeves rolled up, a kerchief round his head and a feather duster in his hand, Orwell insists on whisking away all the filmy phrases you had draped with such studied negligence over the furniture.

Women throughout Europe and their New World colonies used a variety of accessories, such as ribbons, bows, kerchiefs, tuckers, lace, jackets, and shrugs, that were worn over or tucked into the bodice to provide coverage, warmth, and protection from the sun.