befringed

Example Sentences

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He looked down on the plump, ungainly figure, and, without feeling either satisfaction or repugnance, stooped and kissed the befringed forehead.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

The "Girl Graduate," with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosize "that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt."

From Shorter Prose Pieces by Wilde, Oscar

He looked at the lamp hanging from the ceiling, and noticed that the silken, befringed shade was rose-pink.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

Boldly going up to befeathered and befringed chieftains, he offered them knives, hatchets, or strings of silvery beads.

From The Spirit of the Border by Grey, Zane

It was as a boy that she treated me; but, on looking at that befringed young Spanish Don—who was not, apparently, my elder in age—she had recognised a man.

From John Bull on the Guadalquivir by Trollope, Anthony