balmoral

Example Sentences

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You remember I promised to make a dress for Effie Deans out of that blue and brown plaid like Johnnie's balmoral.

From What Katy Did Next by Coolidge, Susan

Honey, dem old balmoral petticoats was some sight, but dey was sho warm as hell.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

She looped her brown cloth skirt over her balmoral petticoat, tied a veil round her small hat and set forth.

From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

In a trice she had whipped off her scarlet balmoral, the balmoral she hated so, and had attached to it one end of the hundred feet of rope she had brought from the house.

From The Children's Portion by Shoppell, Robert W.

Lady Ouseley frequently had the honor of being escorted by the President in her afternoon walks, sometimes attended by her daughter, who wore the first crimson balmoral petticoat seen in Washington.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley