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... he came down the stairs in a bespoke suit of dark brown superfine and gold brocade waistcoat. “Would those betters be the parties who do not under... ...ard now, and wore a handsome suit of chocolate brown superfine with a green brocade waistcoat. The ensemble suited his coloring perfectly. “Hello, ...

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...table palace: there is marble everywhere, wall-hugging gigantic mirrors, and velvet brocade curtains drape man-sized windows. Tinkling chandeliers h...

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...nd high backs and cushions covered in rich velvets and beautifully embroidered brocades. Aislinn waited impatiently for the guard to announce her. I... ...th hazel eyes and dark blond hair, he wore a white tunic beneath a teal satin brocade doublet and dark trousers. From the gold laces on his sleeves...

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... from the one open curtain streamed over the pillows, twinkling in the gold brocade roses. The tiny buttons of her chemise were the only barrier ... ...ance before he drew them closed, but he gave her none. Clutching a large brocade pillow to cover her wispy attire, Morgan skittered along the edge... ...was tossed back to reveal a jacket of royal blue and a double-breasted, gold brocade waistcoat. To Morgan’s amazement, Daniel dropped her hand and... ...s hand and sleeve as he pulled the knife free and wiped it clean on Carew’s brocade vest. Falkner appeared at the edge of the crowd and parted the ...

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...o speak with me.” “Ah, so you both set me up.” she said, going to sit in a white brocade chair made during Queen Anne’s reign. Jack sat to her l...

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... all through his long life. While I worked, he sat, hunched in a princely brocade chair, in elegant clothes, sometimes asleep in spite of my assista...

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...h and a piece of crimson velvet, a piece of yellow satin, a chair covered with brocade of large nap, studded with silver-gilt nails; a cushion of Crim...

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...Sometimes the disease lay hidden in the cargoes of ships, among silks, and brocades, and other costly merchandise which was im ported for the rich pe... ...e ladies wore in those times. They had silks, and satins, and damasks, and brocades, and high head dresses, and all sorts of fine things. And they use... ...the whole waistcoat, which came down almost to the knees, was made of gold brocade.” “Why, the wearer must have shone like a golden image!” said Clara... ...And an embroidered crimson velvet coat,” said Clara, laughing, “and a gold brocade waistcoat down to your knees.” “And knee buckles and shoe buckles,”...

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...w, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or ne... ... lap their careful plumes display’d, T rembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all thing... ..., climes, At length she turns a bride: In diamonds, pearls, and rich brocades, She shines the first of batter’d jades, And flutters in her... ...n men has some small difference made— One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron’d, and the parson gown’d, The friar hooded, and ... ... 30 And gaze on Parian charms with learnèd eyes: Be struck with bright brocade, or Tyrian dye, Our birthday nobles’ splendid livery. If not so ple...

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...law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honor or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or ne... ...r lap their careful plumes displayed, Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. 30 Coffee (which makes the potitician wise, And see through all t...

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...ct for three or four high backed claw footed chairs, covered with tarnished brocade, which bear the marks of having seen better days, and have doubtl... ...d wigs, hanging sleeves, and swords, the latter in lappets, stays, hoops and brocade, have been seen walking up and down the great waste chambers, on ...

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...ontrived by his sisters out of some ancestral hoard. Betty wore thick silk brocade from the same store; Harriet a fresh gay chintz over a crimson skir... ...dvanc- ing, and seeming to fill the room with her majestic figure, in full brocaded dress, with feathers waving in her hair. “His Honour cannot answer... ...was quite as gorgeous in colour and ornament as the female, who sat in her brocade, powder and patches, fan in hand, to receive the homage of his snuf... ...been married twice be- fore, and his last used to send orders for the best brocades in London. He stuck at no expense. The Queen has not finer gowns!”...

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...n the most expensive Pompadour style, as it is called, and the magnificent brocades, all of which any enriched tradesman could have procured for money... ...Schontz might have displayed. There were lace curtains, cashmere hangings, brocade portieres, a set of chimney ornaments modeled by Stidmann, a glass ... ...ed, and a yellow wrapper with little embroidered flowers, exactly like the brocade worn by the immortal homicide conceived of by Bronzino’s nephew. “M... ...if turned in a lathe, without a crease, her saucy face, and dress of satin brocade in two shades of blue, trimmed with Honiton lace enough to have fed...

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...mble. With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain m... ...low of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten bor- ders; with their hair loose on their shoulder... ...se and ushered Don Quixote into a chamber hung with rich cloth of gold and brocade; six dam- sels relieved him of his armour and waited on him like pa... ...s, Wamba the husbandman was taken to be made King of Spain, and from among brocades, and pleasures, and riches, Roderick was taken to be devoured by a... ...ion of his government that he may discard it for another of three-bordered brocade. The charge I give him is to be careful how he governs his vassals,... ...dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroider... ...ath itself look beautiful. She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet- smelling flowers of divers sor...

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...e woke the next morning the sun was pouring in between her curtains of old brocade, and its refraction from the ripples of the Canal was drawing a net... ...iar spell of heaped-up finery. It seemed impossible, as furs and laces and brocades were tossed aside, brought back, and at last carelessly selected f...

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..., covered in a white shawl, and holding up daintily a train of magnificent brocade. She stepped into the vehicle as if she were a princess and accusto... ...ne little understood. The latter quickly spied out the magnificence of the brocade of Becky’s train, and the splendour of the lace on her dress. The b... ...hich was not nearly so good; and then examining the quality of the ancient brocade which formed the material of Mrs. Rawdon’s Court dress, she felt in... ...ut- ting Sir Pitt’s house in order, Mrs. Rawdon had found the lace and the brocade in old wardrobes, the property of the former ladies of the house, a... ...some travelling pedlars had lived, and were exhibiting their jewellery and brocades; above the second-floor apartments occupied by the etat major of t...

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...ashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and wearing a little brocaded cap, and a mantle that covered her from her shoulders to her feet.... ...mble. With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain m... ...low of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten bor- ders; with their hair loose on their shoulder... ...se and ushered Don Quixote into a chamber hung with rich cloth of gold and brocade; six dam- sels relieved him of his armour and waited on him like pa... ...andman was 578 Don Quixote taken to be made King of Spain, and from among brocades, and pleasures, and riches, Roderick was taken to be devoured by a... ...ion of his government that he may discard it for another of three-bordered brocade. The charge I give him is to be careful how he governs his vassals,... ...dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroider... ...ath itself look beautiful. She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet- smelling flowers of divers sor...

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...ne in men has some small diff’rence mad One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobler apron’d, and the parson gown’d, Essay on Man by Alex...

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...he case with French ladies in deshabille. The hoop, long stiff stays, rich brocade robe, and fabric of powdered hair were equally unsuitable to ease o... ...ar when her doll was rejected, a wooden, highly painted lady, bedizened in brocade, and so dear to her soul that it was hard to be told that she was t... ...towing the powder either on her neighbours or on the richly-flowered white brocade she wore; while she received the compliments, one after an- other, ... ... habitation. Arthur picked up a rag of the Bourke livery, and another of a brocade which he had seen the poor Countess wearing. Was this all the relic...

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...ate and legitimist: “It is finer than the Tuileries!” The satins, velvets, brocades, the gold, the objects of art that swarmed there, so filled the ey...