ginghamed

They saw a little, blue-ginghamed woman under a huge peanut-straw hat, who sat in her own front doorway beside a substantial trustee and tatted while her interested eyes scanned her chosen country.

Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Mary Ellen Chase 1930

Now, don't gather from this that Mrs. Brewster was an ample, pie-baking, ginghamed old soul who wore black silk and a crushed-looking hat with a palsied rose atop it.

Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

"We unanimously do," and as I said it I got to thinkin 'of how when I was a boy I used to walk on my hands, and stand on my head, and throw flip-flaps, or stop to knock the head off some passin' kid -- if I was able -- anythin 'so a red-ginghamed, pop-eyed little girl sittin' on the door-step across the street would take notice.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

As I looked across the lilac hedge, which was just beginning to show a green sap tint along its gray branches, I seemed to see my poor little blue-ginghamed, pigtailed self crouched at Judge Crittenden's feet on the front steps, sobbing my lonely heart away while he smoked his sorrow down with a long brier pipe, and the Byrd chirped his little three-year-old protest in concert with us both.

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

A burnished head, gleaming in the sunshine like the gilded ball on a church steeple, rose suddenly out of the waves of dry grass, and a pink-ginghamed figure, radiant with joy and good-will, confronted him.

The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 1898

Sophie, alone in the glory of feminine petticoats, was ensconced in the blue-ginghamed arms of a very bored orphan.

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

And you should have seen those blue ginghamed eyes brighten when the new frocks were actually given out -- three for each girl, all different colors, and all perfectly private personal property, with the owner's indelible name inside the collar.

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896