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    1. dressed in the frill and spill of anticipation,


    2. But what about the words currently in existence: ‘ruff’ and ‘bow’? I guess they will redefine ‘ruff’ as a neck frill or a wrist frill, or something and ‘bow’ as a curtsey


    3. ” Scarlett agreed as she nervously rubbed the frill on the dish towel she was holding


    4. I cut every frill I


    5. This time she was wearing white jeans with metal studs on the trim, a light green silky blouse and a sleeve-less shiny jacket with the collars wide around her neck like a frill


    6. A spiky frill ran down the middle of its back, separating at the base, and continuing on either side of its long tail


    7. A large brown frill had stood out from the neck when it charged Lov


    8. required to open no frill accounts (this term is used for accounts which do not have


    9. I vaulted upward to stand on her upper horns and then I flipped over her neck frill to land on her neck


    10. Turning I tied off the other end of the string to one of the bony projections of the female’s neck frill

    11. One hand holding onto the sword and the other on the neck frill of the beast that I rode I cried out, “Let’s ride!”


    12. Wearily, I flipped up over the neck frill and landed on my feet as I pulled a pair of long knives from my belt


    13. Religion is not a frill or an ornament or a luxury; still less is it a thing to clutch at only in danger or in heartbreak


    14. Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:


    15. The coffin was covered with white silk and edged with a thick white frill; wreaths of flowers surrounded it on all sides


    16. Then, in a distant Missionary way he asked them certain questions,—as why little Joe had that hole in his frill, who said, Pa, Flopson was going to mend it when she had time,—and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said, Pa, Millers was going to poultice it when she didn't forget


    17. The appearance of the house from outside was unaltered: the white lace curtains still draped the windows of the front room; and in the centre of the bay was what appeared to be a small round table covered with a red cloth, and upon it a geranium in a flowerpot standing in a saucer with a frill of coloured tissue paper round it


    18. His hands were crossed upon his breast, and as he lay there in the snow-white grave clothes, almost covered in by the white lace frill that bordered the sides of the coffin, he looked like one in a profound and tranquil sleep


    19. He had the short body, the big shoulders, the round chest, no neck, a great ruddy frill of a beard, the tufted eyebrows, the 'What do you want, damn you!' look about the eyes, and the whole catalogue


    20. In spite of his forty years, in spite of his dusky and crabbed features, withered like most judicial faces, he dressed in youthful fashions, toyed with a bamboo cane, never took snuff in Mademoiselle de Froidfond's house, and came in a white cravat and a shirt whose pleated frill gave him a family resemblance to the race of turkeys

    21. The countess was now over sixty, was quite gray, and wore a cap with a frill that surrounded her face


    22. It luridly depicted the titular beast—a splendid dinosaur, with extravagant yellow-and-black eyespots on its frill, and gore dripping from its horn—confronting a quartet of mounted huntsmen with spears and a pack of snarling green horrors


    23. She swung her heavy head, flinging water from her frill, and sighed


    24. It is a much more probable view that the rattlesnake uses its rattle, the cobra expands its frill and the puff-adder swells while hissing so loudly and harshly, in order to alarm the many birds and beasts which are known to attack even the most venomous species


    25. The carpenter made a little coffin, and Marie Ivanovna finished it with a frill and a pretty little pillow, while I bought flowers and strewed them on the baby


    26. Ilusha lay with his hands folded and his eyes closed in a blue coffin with a white frill round it


    27. The frill was untouched


    28. Then came a short overskirt, extending a little below the knees, and beneath which appeared the fair senora or senorita's most unfeminine pantaloons, which, being carefully tied above the ankle in a frill, were allowed to fully display that treasure of treasures, that most valued of charms, the beautiful little foot and ankle


    1. like what would happen if a frilled lizard had mated with a gargoyle and then covered its resulting


    2. We were all sick of the pantaloons and thick cotton hose that wrinkled at the knees, velvet jackets and frilled blouses worn for The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, so were delighted when they were replaced by waist-length jerkins, felt boots and the ‘new’ stretch-nylon tights – one size fits all, guaranteed never to wrinkle


    3. The closer we came to the clearing, the more we spooked frilled lizards that ran from us in comic fashion standing on their hind legs with tail fan extended


    4. I prayed it wasn’t a condorla, I hoped that it wouldn’t tear into my flesh, as it had the frilled lizards


    5. takes one back, to the frilled labels on beverages and the hint of skin in lace and pearls


    6. The upper portion of this lure is painted with an eye design to make it more attractive to fish while the hook is designed with frilled plastic skirt which helps conceal it


    7. It was sunny, and the white chrysanthemums frilled themselves in the warmth


    8. He had earned the frilled, horned head for a trophy as well


    9. When the strap passed before the nosehorn’s eyes, it tossed its frilled head and bleated alarm


    10. This bridal couch, as we have mentioned already, was in a little room that opened out of the dining-room, on the bedstead was a double mattress actually newly bought first-hand, clean sheets, four pillows in pink calico covered with frilled muslin cases

    1. Whilst Hunter - hovering ghoulishly over the corpse - arranged the grave clothes and the frilling, Crass laid the broken cover on the top of the other coffin and pushed it under the bed out of the way


    2. The Doctor was more than suspected of having no religion, but somehow Middlemarch tolerated this deficiency in him as if he had been a Lord Chancellor; indeed it is probable that his professional weight was the more believed in, the world-old association of cleverness with the evil principle being still potent in the minds even of lady-patients who had the strictest ideas of frilling and sentiment


    3. She had been magnanimous enough to renounce all pride in teapots or children's frilling, and had never poured any pathetic confidences into the ears of her feminine neighbors concerning Mr


    1. Her taste, like mine, leans towards the elegant and unfussy, unlike Gilla’s preferences for patterns and frills


    2. You rent a small apartment in a run-down neighborhood, and you are dependent on a no frills 1980’s auto in so-so shape to get around in


    3. terrifyingly extraordinary thing about it, however, was the two giant frills on either side of its head


    4. forked tongue that flicked around in the air as its two frills rubbed against its neck, producing an


    5. She assured him that there were little frills 40


    6. She could put on several frills and invent a few artistic details to enhance the horror


    7. Instead there would be adequate cabins for officials without any frills and the carving and painting was limited to a figure and “dragon eyes” on the prow


    8. I-H said, "Yeah, her daddy wasn't one to spend on frills, at's fer sure


    9. No frills, few overheads and incredibly busy from the look of it


    10. to cut the frills, not yours,” Ross said

    11. would have to cut down on some of its frills


    12. The Geckoids had small frills on their neck and backs; also changing color with their mood


    13. They had pink membranes in their wings and tails, and two membranous frills at the sides of the head over their earholes


    14. Not long ago, I found a new no-frills supermarket – I had to buy my frills elsewhere, but I’m not sure which store carried them


    15. Most airlines have responded by cutting frills such


    16. That shed layers of frills


    17. Besides, in time, the fear of exposure, imparts dullness to their sense of excitement, and that robs them of the thrills on the frills


    18. Having stripped the vehicle of almost all the frills and furbelows normally found in those homes on wheels, the owner had then very reluctantly and in direct contradiction to the Spartan ambience so carefully achieved, added not only a color TV set, but on her first arrival in Lake Havasu City, had purchased and installed—a satellite dish! The convert to nature’s ways definitely considered that to be criminal


    19. Her hair was tied in a little ponytail and she sported a pink dress with flowery frills along the sleeves and skirt


    20. length sleeves and was shaped to mid-thigh culminating in two tiered frills that ended just above the knee

    21. Places where a person with a dead “soul” does not have to put on frills and show


    22. It was a pragmatic statement, no frills, no flouting words, yet it was simply, basically true


    23. No frills, no


    24. up a little pink shirt with frills around the sleeves and “little princess” written in blue cursive on the front


    25. The instant they were on her feet, stretching out in all their hugeness far beyond the frills of her skirt and obliging her to slide instead of walk, she became gracious


    26. That day, in the post Resurrection break-fasting binge, she was dressed formally and a little ludicrously in a black taffeta dress with pleats and frills and a décolletage of Chantilly lace coming right up to her neck and chin


    27. She did not give me time to feel intimidated by all the frills of femininity


    28. It was decorated with white frills around the edges and silver and red balloons were hung from the safety rails


    29. Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone down to his room, undressed, again washed, and attired in a nightshirt with goffered frills, he had got into bed, but Levin still lingered in his room, talking of various trifling matters, and not daring to ask what he wanted to know


    30. and view for herself the lovely laces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler

    31. ” bowing her head over it, unconsciously began to tear the frills into small ribbons


    32. Farebrother, the Vicar's white-haired mother, befrilled and kerchiefed with dainty cleanliness, up right, quick-eyed, and still under seventy; Miss Noble, her sister, a tiny old lady of meeker aspect, with frills and kerchief decidedly more worn and mended; and Miss Winifred Farebrother, the Vicar's elder sister, well-looking like himself, but nipped and subdued as single women are apt to be who spend their lives in uninterrupted subjection to their elders


    33. The ceratopsids were herbivorous dinosaurs with the largest skulls, characterized by huge frills and horns


    34. 's frills, and paved with several large stones


    35. But when he told a story he dressed it up so that you couldn't see it for frills


    36. that's certain; well, say a little more for frills


    37. It was a dream, a fantastic vision—without a bodice, without puffs or frills or tawdry trimmings of any sort


    38. She gently supported the head of the corpse, gently laid it on the satin cushion, straightened the frills which surrounded the hard pillow, and, unperceived, left under it the twisted roll of paper


    39. It is impossible to describe what Olga Vseslavovna suffered, as she watched all those hands moving about among the folds of the muslin, the frills, the covering, almost under the satin cushion even; a little more and she would have fainted in earnest


    40. “I shall be distractingly fond of frills all the rest of my life

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    Synonyms for "frill"

    falderol folderal frill gimcrack gimcrackery nonsense trumpery flounce furbelow ruffle ruff

    "frill" definitions

    (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs


    an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal


    a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim


    ornamental objects of no great value