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    Usar "brocade" en una oración

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    1. dull brocade in one cold hand,


    2. Young girls in scarves of white satin, stockings of red cotton and heavy brocade jackets staggered under heirloom medallion chains of heavy gold, links of pearl, lace and beads


    3. He walks the few metres from his bed, past a threadbare red brocade armchair, to the kitchenette


    4. “Mother, why don’t you weave the picture as a brocade? That would be almost like being there


    5. ” The brocade was laid out on the floor


    6. It lifted the brocade, blew it out the window, and carried it through the air


    7. The widow and her son rushed outside, only to watch the brocade disappear into the east


    8. “Chen,” she said weakly, “you must find the brocade and bring it back


    9. “The brocade of Sun Palace! Well, that wind was sent by the fairy ladies of the palace itself


    10. They’re using the brocade as a pattern for their weaving

    11. It looked just like his mother’s brocade! He rode to the entrance, sprang from the horse, and hurried into a huge hall


    12. On each loom was a copy of his mother’s brocade, and the brocade itself hung in the center of the room


    13. “Dear lady, I have come for my mother’s brocade


    14. She cut her brocade from the loom and held it beside the widow’s


    15. ” He rolled up his mother’s brocade, rushed from the hall, and jumped onto the horse


    16. ” He helped her out of the cottage and placed the brocade on a rock


    17. But just then a sudden wind came, and the brocade rose slowly in the air


    18. “While the wind still blows! Step into the brocade!” For a moment, Chen was too astounded to move


    19. Slipping into her own gown, she hunted desperately, for something to set off the plunging neckline, of pearls and brocade


    20. gathered at the waist by a belt of gold brocade – just as

    21. gathered at the waist by a belt of gold brocade


    22. The neckline was square coupled with wide set straps and a brocade bodice


    23. A thigh length split in her turquoise brocade sheath exposed varicosed legs on wavering high heels


    24. She nodded to two brocade chairs strategically angled in front of the desk


    25. Comben fidgeted as they sat in plush brocade covered armchairs and listened to the old couple show their bemusement at what had happened


    26. The window drapes were made of brocade and matched the wallpaper perfectly


    27. In the back corner was a deep goldenrod and emerald green brocade settee


    28. Angelo helped her sit down on a deep goldenrod and emerald green brocade settee in the back corner of the room, then lifted her feet as she leaned her back and head against the overstuffed arm


    29. My floral brocade ballgown glimmered with elegant black sequins, and I thought of Regina as Sher tightly laced the bodice into a perfect fit


    30. It was upholstered in imported brocade, with piped rolls of silk plush, and it had a parasol hooked on at the back, with a deep ruffle

    31. Reclining on furnishings lined with brocade, and the fruits of the two gardens are near at hand


    32. afternoon sun caste gold brocade about her neck and gave her skin a reddish fleck of


    33. At the top, under a white sheet, was a coat of red brocade lined with hareskin; under it was a silk dress, then a shawl and it seemed as though there was nothing below but


    34. The first thing he did was to wipe his blood-stained hands on the red brocade


    35. So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat


    36. With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain mail of their armour; no knight now-a-days sleeps in the open field exposed to the inclemency of heaven, and in full panoply from head to foot; no one now takes a nap, as they call it, without drawing his feet out of the stirrups, and leaning upon his lance, as the


    37. proceeding, they ascended the staircase and ushered Don Quixote into a chamber hung with rich cloth of gold and brocade; six damsels relieved him of his armour and waited on him like pages, all of them prepared and instructed by the duke and duchess as to what they were to do, and how they were to treat Don Quixote, so that he might see and believe they were treating him like a knight-errant


    38. " But just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly from among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented themselves to his sight--or at least damsels dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby


    39. She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of


    40. The entire chamber was lined with crimson brocade, worked with flowers of gold

    41. Around them clustered subsidiary stalls selling just about everything else money could buy: sweet wine from the Rhineland, silk brocade threaded with gold from Lucca, glass bowls from Venice, ginger and pepper from places in the East that few people could even name


    42. He wore clothes that looked expensive but were filthy dirty: a cloak of Italian scarlet covered with leaves and twigs, a rich brocade coat marked with what appeared to be food stains, and hose of a rich chestnut leather, scratched and muddy


    43. Did the clever court lawyer really have nothing up his costly brocade sleeve?


    44. However, he had made it at last, and sat next to Bishop Henri at the table, wearing a costly brocade coat woven with gold and silver threads


    45. Today brought a vendor of Italian brocade who wanted to sell it to one


    46. She had lowered the ceiling and the elaborate cornice which, in one form or another, graced every room was lost to view; the walls, one panelled in brocade, were stripped and washed blue and spotted with innumerable little water-colours of fond association; the air was sweet with the fresh scent of flowers and musty potpourri; her library in soft leather covers, well-read works of poetry and piety, filled a small rosewood bookcase; the chimney-piece was covered with small personal treasures - an ivory Madonna, a plaster St Joseph, posthumous miniatures of her three soldier brothers


    47. Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold


    48. though plush curtains and brocade sofas were hers


    49. He had gradually grown his hair until it no longer looked right with the uniform of Italian suits and tuxedos, so he started wearing crushed-velvet frock coats and brocade jackets, a chain with a cross and a string of Nepalese beads over a long-collared shirt of satin or embroidered cotton


    50. At the top, under a white sheet, was a coat of red brocade lined with hareskin; under it was a silk dress, then a shawl and it seemed as though there was nothing below but clothes











    1. grandly in their splendid brocaded trains, and held their crowned heads


    2. Off-duty wear of high quality trousers and silk shirts with brocaded vests


    3. She went to the litter and opened the door, where Exinder lay under brocaded linens


    4. I had neglected to tell the southern bells decked out in lacy petticoats and brocaded dresses that the current fashion on the surface pretty much consisted of a slutty T-shirt and a pair of jeans that looked like they’d been pressed molded onto them


    5. Behind him, mounted upon an ass, there came a woman dressed in Moorish fashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and wearing a little brocaded cap, and a mantle that covered her from her shoulders to her feet


    6. The rooms had been fitted up in strict accordance with Oriental ideas; the floors were covered with the richest carpets Turkey could produce; the walls hung with brocaded silk of the most magnificent designs and texture; while around each chamber luxurious divans were placed, with piles of soft and yielding cushions, that needed only to be arranged at the pleasure or


    7. In the middle of the room was a canopy, from which hung curtains of red brocaded stuff, and, under the canopy, an open coffin


    8. the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c


    9. Hildebranda was never to forget her first sight of the man who appeared on the footboard: his satin top hat, his brocaded vest, his knowing gestures, the sweetness in his eyes, the authority of his presence


    10. and luxurious with a brocaded quilt and a headboard with brass foliage

    11. At the same time they continue to persuade themselves and others that they are all much concerned about the welfare of these working classes, whom they have always trampled under their feet, and on Sundays, richly dressed, they drive in sumptuous carriages to the houses of God built in very mockery of Christianity, and there listen to men, trained to this work of deception, who in white neckties or in brocaded vestments, according to their denomination, preach the love for their neighbor which they all gainsay in their lives


    12. He is even persuaded, when she has invested in a diamond brooch and a brocaded front, that she has become a woman of rare elegance, belonging to that type which energetic newspaper reporters depict as a “leader


    13. In the wide arched entrance hall stands a high-born dame attired in gay Watteau costume—red-heeled slippers, brocaded petticoat, and bodice and train of puce-colored satin


    1. The widow was known all over for the brocades that she made on her loom


    2. People said there were no brocades finer than the ones the widow wove


    3. One day, the widow took a pile of brocades to the marketplace, where she quickly sold them


    4. And I don’t want to come away!” Because the widow no longer wove brocades to sell, Chen cut firewood and sold that instead


    5. The fairies worked busily to finish their brocades


    6. Such manufactures, therefore, are the offspring of foreign commerce; and such seem to have been the ancient manufactures of silks, velvets, and brocades, which flourished in Lucca during the thirteenth century


    7. The room was decorated in deep sky blue and rich dark gold brocades


    8. The worst part was that the rain was affecting everything and the driest of machines would have flowers popping out among their gears if they were not oiled every three days, and the threads in brocades rusted, and wet clothing would break out in a rash of saffron-colored moss


    9. In this room there was a wardrobe full of old-fashioned costumes with which Esther allowed her to play, and it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears


    10. They had no realization of what her life had been They didn’t care to talk about what their lives had been before they attained stiff brocades and victorias with fine teams of horses

    11. And the children searched the vast heaps of parchments and brocades and bolts of wallpaper and marble ash trays and vests and roller skates and great fat overstuffed chairs and end tables and crystal chandeliers


    12. But in a few hours order would be reestablished because she at last took pity on so much silk strewn on the floor, so many leftover brocades and useless pieces of passementerie, so many silver fox tails, all condemned to the fire


    13. They were all in strange old-time costumes; the ladies in brocades and satins with strings of pearls in their powdered hair, the gentlemen in uniform with knee breeches, swords, and cocked hats held under their arms


    14. The brocades and flowered silks which the eighteenth century had revelled in, and if in England not strong enough artistically to produce them itself, had brought into England from other lands;—these were replaced by the dismal things I have alluded to, and no vestige of them seems to have remained in the parlors of that unhappy time


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