kerchieved

Example Sentences

• "From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray; From laying down the runners down to Warsash way; Kerchieved as the buttercup, Ringèd as the moon, Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon; Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan, Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!"
• "The white-kerchieved head is bent closely over the masterpiece-to-be."
• "We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets."
• "i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect."
• "Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move."
• "you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm the Belgian francs are talking to me again two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle the languages we use five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French."