Our very maid-servants, who were brought up shoeless, stockingless, and bonnetless, and who work day and night for. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
If married at home, the widow bride may wear a light silk and be bonnetless, but she should not indulge in any of the signs of first bridal. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
It would be well, if we could introduce the habit of going to the theatre bonnetless, for our high hats are universally denounced by those who sit behind us. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
In the office she stood, a middle-aged lady (close on two-and-forty years old) bonnetless and capless, amid a posse of young clerks: the telegraph operator, the messenger, the indoor clerk, the postman: to whom she was an object of unending curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
What with her peculiar costume and my bonnetless head. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
Mary Ellen was out in the open air, bonnetless and all a-blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains] Reference
With her was Andra Kissock, a bare-legged, bonnetless squire of dames. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
This wind is blowing pretty fresh, and you've been bonnetless all day. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
The bonnetless woman had changed her position, and her head was no longer visible. From Wordnik.com. [A Waif of the Plains] Reference
They were dusty and uncombed, hatless, bonnetless and ragged, and they did look so tired!. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
This wind is blowing pretty fresh, and you've been bonnetless all day; – what's the reason?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
In the meantime, Maggie was walking shoeless and bonnetless up the hill to the farm she sought. From Wordnik.com. [Salted with Fire] Reference
The bonnetless woman nodded a pleasant acknowledgment, and coquettishly wound the vine in her glossy hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Waif of the Plains] Reference
The sidewalks too were littered with men and women, hatless and bonnetless, who had rushed out of the houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger] Reference
The side walks, too, were littered with men and women, hatless and bonnetless, who had rushed out of the houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Poison Belt]
THE GRANDEE'S DAUGHTER her gentle spirit, her generous feet, her bonnetless head, and the plaited tails of hemp-colored hair hanging down her back. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad] Reference
And what would their parents think of me, if they saw or heard the children rioting, hatless, bonnetless, gloveless, and bootless, in the deep soft snow?. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
Yesterday morning, as I was returning from my morning walk at half-past eight, I saw a bonnetless maid on the walk, with letter in hand, in search of me. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Edgeworth] Reference
If American women would only ape the English in going bonnetless to the theatres, we would forgive their little aping in other respects, and call it even. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
People from the house went out to help; and I heard of her, the centre of an unknowing curious crowd, as she lay bonnetless in the mud of the road, her head on the kerb. From Wordnik.com. [The Roadmender] Reference
These, with bacon from his herd of wandering pigs, give sustenance to his family of children, who, hatless and bonnetless, roam through the woods until the sun bleaches their hair to the color of flax. From Wordnik.com. [Four Months in a Sneak-Box] Reference
Something very fine, in a white dress, and pink and scarlet flowers on her bonnetless head, as if attired for an evening party, was whirling round the middle of the road in circles: a tall woman, who must once have been beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Channings] Reference
These pedestrians turned to stare at the extraordinary spectacle she now presented, bonnetless, her dishevelled hair blowing in the wind, her bodice apart her sleeves rolled above her elbows for her work, and her hands reeking with melted fat. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Her complexion owed its white-rose tinge to a strong, gentle life, and its few freckles to the pale sun of Scotland, for she courted every breeze bonnetless on the hills, when she accompanied her father in his walks, or carried home the work he had finished. From Wordnik.com. [Salted with Fire] Reference
But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed, excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
There were such dull eyes and slattern heads at the open windows of the shabby houses; and there were gaunt, bold-faced young girls who strolled up and down the pavements, bonnetless and hatless, and chatted into the windows, and joked with other such girls whom they met. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
A girl, bonnetless, her hair gently lifting with the breeze, stood out clear and unmistakable. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
It is I who transport all the guests of Madame Chevillon, "said the smiling brown-haired bonnetless woman who held the reins. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
This wind is blowing pretty fresh, and you've been bonnetless all day what's the reason? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
Her wild-rose hair all bonnetless. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
With thy bonnetless, sun-burnt brow. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
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