1 Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.
2 A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.
3 The dirty maidservant stepped from behind the trunk, put up her plait, sighed, and went on her short, bare feet along the path.
4 There were people at the entrance: servants, and a rosy girl with a large plait of black hair, smiling as it seemed to Princess Mary in an unpleasantly affected way.
5 They hollow out head-gear to guard them, and plait wickerwork round shield-bosses; others forge breastplates of brass or smooth greaves of flexible silver.
6 Others quickly plait a soft wicker bier of arbutus rods and oak shoots, and shadow the heaped pillows with a leafy covering.
7 She would come in her dressing gown, with her hair in a plait down her back, curiously girlish and dim, though the brown plait was streaked with grey.
8 She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 9 But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 10 Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents.
11 And as that famous great tierce is mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 12 The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts.
13 All her beautiful hair had been drawn back and plaited.
14 She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
15 Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.