white-frilled

No southerly tempest smites the bark, no long groundswell upheaves her; for a bold point, known as the “Haven-head,” baffles the storm in the offing, while the bulky rollers of a strong spring-tide, that need no wind to urge them, are broken by the shifting of the shore into a tier of white-frilled steps.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

He could just see the edge of her white-frilled drawers.

The Trespasser 2003

After a timid knock she passed in, and made a little picture as she stood in the firelight, in her brown velveteen frock and large white-frilled pinafore.

Odd Amy le Feuvre

When breakfast was over they went out into the grassy space round which the ruined walls of the castle rose up so grey and stately, with the wallflowers and toad-flax growing out of them, and sat down among the round-faced, white-frilled daisies and told each other what they had thought, or what they thought they had thought, while they were back in those times when people were afraid of Boney.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

At all events, on the morning after her arrival she appeared, coming through the hedge, down the garden path and across the lawn, a fresh and attractive figure in a pink muslin with ruffles, and one of those coquettish, white-frilled sunbonnets summer-girls wear in the country.

A Court of Inquiry 1912

She stood near and yet aloof, a lovely little flower of a girl, all white-scalloped frills and ribbons, with a big white-frilled hat shading a pale little face and. covering the top of a head decorated with wonderful yellow curls.

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

He could just see the edge of her white-frilled drawers.

The Trespasser 1907

The Micks shrieked their approval, while Nance rolled a mud ball and, with the deadly aim of a sharpshooter, let it fly straight at the white-frilled bosom of her tormentor.

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

"Ye-e-e-s you could!" came in a chorus of jeers from the fence top, and a brown-eyed youth in a white-frilled shirt, with a blue Windsor tie knotted under his sailor collar, added imperiously, "You get too fresh down there, and I'll call the janitor!"

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

He had dropped his flat round hat upon the table, and his long hair fell in a sort of bush to his wide, white-frilled ruff.

The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897