Example Sentences

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He drew close enough to watch the men go off to their work and the women move, sunbonneted, about the yard.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

Thus they defile: men with felt hats drawn over their brows; women, sunbonneted or hatless; children barefoot, bareheaded, ragged, unwashed.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

“Well, I declare, Mary Marsden!” gasped the sunbonneted woman, who was plainly Abby Drake.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Emerson, Alice B.

As day breaks we catch a glimpse of a sunbonneted mother and her three little kiddies.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Beyond this opening, and at some little distance, he saw a sunbonneted woman of a plump and comfortable presence.

From The Prodigal Judge by Kester, Vaughan