This oversize top hat of red straw, with jaunty ribbons dangling, is suitable for unbirthday parties and other occasions worthy of Lewis Carroll.

Now, as she set down the folder and walked over to him, the red satin ribbon dangling seductively from her hand, he knew it was a lock.

She wore a blue satin garter, for something blue, and held a tiny white-and-gold Bible with silk orange blossoms and white satin ribbons dangling, for something new.

Many were wearing Whites, but a good half the crowd was enlisted spacers in their liberty suits: utilities with ribbons dangling from the seams and a patch for every port of call.

Gabriel stood in a wide stance with his arms crossed, the parchment and its ribbons dangling.

The ribbons dangling from her wide-brimmed straw hat were frayed at the ends.

She was dipping another cloth in it, a cloth that looked suspiciously like her camisole, for there were pale blue ribbons dangling from it.

In his left hand were sling leathers, looking like a set of ribbons dangling from unsteady fingers.

Perhaps it was the unlikely image of Parrot trussed in a steel corset, ribbons dangling in her hair, her freedom squashed to a pulp by moral society.

Durzo tucked the paper in a breast pocket and drew a huge sword with a long red ribbon dangling from its hilt.