Example Sentences

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It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gentleman who built this house," she explained, "had already grown rich in the manufacture of the famous ribless umbrella before he acquired a second fortune from a nostrum warranted to cure dyspepsia.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

That dyspepsia-cure man, who also immortalized himself by inventing the ribless umbrella, was very superstitious.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

Shameless face has a ribless tongue Extemporising non-stop harangue!

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.

Many had well-developed ribs, indicating a condition of respiration much in advance of that in the ribless batrachians.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William