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Dressed in sentence

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The odour of the incense and of the rose leaves strewn before the Blessed Sacrament by children dressed as little Saint Johns, intensified his excitement.
His distraction was nevertheless half conquered by the sight of two women extremely well dressed who were kneeling, one of them in a confessional, the other, close beside her, upon a chair.
The boisterous joy of these peasants well fed and well dressed, could find expression, thought itself complete only when they were shouting with the full force of their lungs.
In addition, this abbe who seemed so greatly interested in M. Pirard's resignation, was dressed with an elegance that greatly pleased Julien, who had never seen its like on any other priest.
At the moment of his entering the room, two tall valets, better dressed than M. Valenod himself, were disrobing Monseigneur.
You are fully dressed,' said M. de Renal, as he entered; 'you are having supper, and you have locked your door?'On any ordinary day, this question, put with all the brutality of a husband, would have troubled Madame de Renal, but she felt that her husband had only to lower his eyes a little to catch sight of Julien; for M. de Renal had flung himself upon the chair on which Julien had been sitting a moment earlier, facing the sofa.
He found ensconced by his own place in the library a young man dressed with great neatness, but his general appearance was ignominious and his expression one of envy.
RONSARDIf everything seemed strange to Julien, in the noble drawing-room of the Hotel de La Mole, the young man himself, pale and dressed in black, seemed in turn highly singular to those who deigned to notice him.
Girls in Paris do not care for men of a certain age, especially when they are not well dressed.
The abbe Pirard had nevertheless made a great concession to his party; he had engaged a valet, and was quite well dressed.
He was small, thin, ugly, very well dressed, he spent all his time at the Chateau and, as a rule, had nothing to say about anything.
Her head was dressed on this occasion with the greatest pains; a marvellous art had been employed to conceal the gap left by the clipped locks.
This Duke was a man of fifty, dressed like a dandy, and treading as though on springs.
He went home, and dressed himself with great care.
Julien left the room and presently reappeared, dressed with the most scrupulous care.
'The Marquis wishes to see you this moment, dressed or undressed.'
At that moment, a woman dressed as a peasant flung herself into his arms; he had difficulty in recognising her.
Mademoiselle de La Mole imagined herself to be dressed simply and in a manner becoming a woman stricken with grief; she was dressed in such a fashion as to attract every eye.
One would have said that morning that he was not yet twenty; he was dressed quite simply, but with a perfect grace; his hair and brow were charming; Mathilde had insisted on presiding in person over his toilet.
"Think you're going to see the supervisor dressed in just your shirt, do you?
He opened the wardrobe himself, spent a long time searching through all the clothes, and chose his best black suit which had a short jacket that had greatly surprised those who knew him, then he also pulled out a fresh shirt and began, carefully, to get dressed.
He watched them to see if they might remember after all, but of course it never occurred to them, although Willem did not forget to send Franz up to the supervisor with the message saying that K. was getting dressed.
Once he was properly dressed, K. had to pass by Willem as he went through the next room into the one beyond, the door of which was already wide open.
He dressed hurriedly, without the time to think and assemble the various plans he had worked out during the week.
Half grown girls, who seemed to be dressed in just their pinafores worked hardest running to and fro.
Most of them were dressed in black, in old, long, formal frock coats that hung down loosely around them.
As far as could be distinguished, up in the half-darkness, dust and haze, they seemed to be less well dressed than those below.
All of them were carelessly dressed although the expressions on their faces, their bearing, the style of their beards and many details which were hard to identify showed that they belonged to the upper classes.
"I think," said the man, who was elegantly dressed and whose appearance was made especially impressive with a grey waistcoat that had two long, sharply tailored points, "the gentleman is feeling unwell because of the atmosphere here, so the best thing, and what he would most prefer, would be not to take him to the sick room but get him out of the offices altogether."
We, that's to say all of us who work in the offices here, we decided that the information-giver would have to be elegantly dressed as he continually has to deal with the litigants and he's the first one they meet, so he needs to give a dignified first impression.
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