"Braiding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her mind she sought Anne's room at once. Anne, in a cheap cotton kimono, was braiding her hair for the night. The sleeves of the kimono were short and showed her thin white arms. Amy had on a blanket wrapper. Her hair was in metal curlers. She looked old and tired, and now and then ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... from Nature's fairest bowers; On her brow, from moor and heath, Bright green leaves and flowers did cluster, Borrowing resplendent lustre From the eyes that shone beneath. Rose the whisper, "She is crazy," When she plucked the blooming daisy, Braiding it within her hair; But they knew not, what of gladness Mingled with her notes of sadness, As she laid it gently there. For her loved one, ere he started, While she still was happy-hearted, Clipped a daisy from its stem, Placed it in her hair, and told her, Till again he should behold ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams
... laughing boy, "on heroes poor looks cold, If thou art wise as well as brave, return with store of gold." "Perchance thou'rt right!" and now he turned to his sister young and fair, Braiding with skill a glossy tress of his own ...
— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
... took a survey of the field. The cattle were all quiet. Chicken Little was braiding little baskets with a handful of cat tail leaves she had brought from the slough. Ernest reached over and patted ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... county newspaper, and gave the sheet to her valiant comrade, who glanced over it with the air of a connoisseur, and, after declaring aloud that he quite grasped its meaning, folded it neatly up, and stuck it in the braiding of his cap. ...
— The Day of Wrath • Maurus Jokai
... make head-dresses and to ornament shields and also weapons. Small bunches of owl or grouse feathers were sometimes tied to the scalp locks. It is doubtful if the women ever took particular care of their hair. The men, however, spent a great deal of time brushing, braiding, and ornamenting their scalp locks. Their hair was usually worn in two braids, one on each side of the head. Less frequently, four braids were made, one behind and in front of each ear. Sometimes, the hair of the forehead was cut off square, and brushed straight ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... he spent much time in reading. But he also spent many hours in braiding his beard, and interweaving with it strips of red bunting, as if he desired to dress out and adorn the thing which had triumphed over ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... against a chair for support—this man's presence had weakened her so. She stood silent, save for a slight moan that broke from her lips, as Pierre lighted a cigarette coolly, and then said to an old Indian woman who sat upon the floor braiding a basket: "Get up, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Heywood was a peculiar one. The business of the store was largely in the sale of goods for hats made of palm leaf. The business was comparatively new at the time. For many previous years the women had been employed in braiding straw and making hats and bonnets for market. Gradually, work in palm leaf had taken the place of work in straw. The neighbor of Heywood, Major Daniel Putnam, was doing a large business in hats. The preparation of the palm leaves was not an easy business. The leaves were ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 • George Boutwell
... 'you always read with Meg in your lap, when you have no mending to do; you have been six months braiding that frock.' ...
— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge
... mastery of movement and sweep are acquired, the same designs may be reduced in size ten or twenty times and the pupil will still work them out in perfect rhythm. After the mastery of movement is acquired, the cording, braiding, and three-thread attachment work are easily learned by a pupil who has the necessary mechanical sense. The course of Bonnaz (Corneli) work covers: chain stitch, lettering, applique work, ...
— The Making of a Trade School • Mary Schenck Woolman
... yet nothing come of it? But so it was. The first question a newly-landed regiment was asked, if coming from where they resided, was, "Well, how are the girls?" "Oh, gloriously. Matty is there." "Ah, indeed! poor thing." "Has Fan sported a new habit?" "Is it the old gray with the hussar braiding? Confound it, that was seedy when I saw them in Corfu. And Mother Dal as fat and vulgar as ever?" "Dawson of ours was the last, and was called up for sentence when we were ordered away; of course, he bolted," etc. Such was the invariable style ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be won by the deportment of their wives, (2)when they behold your chaste deportment coupled with fear. (3)Whose adorning, let it not be the outward one of braiding the hair, and of wearing golden ornaments, or of putting on apparel; (4)but the hidden man of the heart, in that which is imperishable of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. (5)For so in the ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... gathered up the rag rug she was braiding and moved to a bench in the farthermost corner of ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... shoots, is right behind the target. But it wasn't when Alfy hit the bull's-eye. How did you do it, child? It was wonderful and at that distance—which Captain Lemuel fixed for himself!" said Helena, brushing out her hair preparatory to loosely braiding it. ...
— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond
... but by no means highly gifted in any respect—a girl whose future would be to bloom and fade unknown in her father's service. But now she knew that she was indeed beautiful; not only because she had heard it repeatedly in the crowd of yesterday, or even because Agatha had declared it while braiding her hair—an inward voice affirmed it, and for her lover's sake she was ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... of the women. While they insisted that women should wear long hair, they objected to having it braided lest the beautiful coils should be too attractive to men. But women had other reasons for braiding their hair beside attracting men. A compact braid was much more comfortable than individual hairs free to be blown about ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... a mere braided cord of abak fiber often mixed with strands of cotton yarn, but more commonly it is a series of braided cords of nito,[14] or of human hair. The girdle is made by braiding the nito or the hair into circular cords, each about 45 centimeters in length and about 2 millimeters in width. Anywhere from 10 to 20 of these braids are fastened together by involving the ends in small pieces of cloth wrapped with cotton yarn ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan
... the trail. He dismounted to change saddles. The Train was straggling along under an occasional fire. Cairns found that the pony was held by a tough wire, that led into the jungle. Such was the braiding at the throat, that only a sapper could have handled it. The correspondent started to follow the wire into the thicket—when Bedient caught him by the shoulder and half-lifted him from the ground. There was strength in that slim tanned hand that had nothing to do with the ordinary force ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort
... stood before her little mirror in the lean-to, braiding her long smooth hair, she talked a bit for ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... I for weeping, Cause for weeping and lamenting. Therefore do I weep, poor sister, Weep and feel so full of sorrow. 70 From my brow the gold has fallen, From my hair I lost the silver, Tore the blue bands from my temples, From my head the scarlet braiding." ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... the priestess lifted her hand above her head and when she withdrew it, the sun and planets remained to form a diadem just above the intricate braiding of her dull red hair. As she moved into the secret way, the five orbs swung with her, and in the darkness there the sun glowed richly, sending out a light to guide ...
— The Gifts of Asti • Andre Alice Norton
... straight old Roman road which once upon a time ran down to London town. Ill-kept enough were some of the lanes, with their hedges and shrubs overhanging the highways, if such the paths could be called which came braiding down toward the south. One needed not to go far outward beyond Sadler's Wells of a night-time to find adventure, or to ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... the respect of all of us. His hair was dripping with oil, his hands were covered with rings, he had a dusky down over his upper lip which looked not unlike a moustache, and a multiplicity of frogs and braiding on his surtout which would have sufficed to lace a field-marshal. When old Swishtail, the usher, passed in his seedy black coat and gaiters, Jack gave him such a look of contempt as set us all a-laughing: in fact it was his turn ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray |
