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...eads thronged the shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scattered over the women?s dresses, and the gold and silver embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wealth of the globe seemed to be rolling through the drawing-rooms of Paris. Intoxication seemed to ...

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...n so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scattered over the women’s dresses, and the gold and silver embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so s... ...e de Vaudremont below the crowd of heads in constant motion; the high head-dresses prevent her having a clear view.” “I see her now, my dear fellow. Y... ...h other with a feeling of envy that she planned and wore as many different dresses as the parties she went to in one evening. On the present occasion ... ...ift but observant glances on the women present, hastily scrutinizing their dresses to assure herself that her own eclipsed them all. The illustrious b...

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... Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr. Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something ...

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...to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr ...

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... no beards; in Turkish turbans, glazed En glish hats, and Neapolitan head dresses. There were the 24 Pictures from Italy townspeople sitting in clus... ...ees! Those purple mountains lay on the horizon, then, for certain; and the dresses of these peasant girls, who wear a great, knobbed, silver pin like ... ... was an air of comfort, very new and very pleasant after Italy; or how the dresses of the women changed again, and there were no more sword bearers to... ...ing aspect of desolation and ruin. The masquerade 106 Pictures from Italy dresses on the fringe of the Carnival, did great violence to this promise. ... ...was a large box for lady strangers. These were filled with ladies in black dresses and black veils. The gentlemen of the Pope’s guard, in red coats, l... ...ittle knots of friars (Frances cani, or Cappuccini, in their coarse brown dresses and peaked hoods) making a strange contrast to the gaudy ecclesiast... ...ns; other functionaries in black gowns, and other func tionaries in court dresses, were similarly engaged. In the midst of all these, and stealthy Je... ...d in an instant made them white as millers. Still, carriages on carriages, dresses on dresses, colours on colours, crowds upon crowds, without end. Me... ...ers on foot (the drollest generally) in fantastic exag gerations of court dresses, surveying the throng through enormous eye glasses, and always tran...

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...dst their kindred Cobwebs in Duck Lane . If Faith it self has diff’rent Dresses worn, What wonder Modes in Wit shou’d take their Turn? Oft, le...

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...the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a con- stant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedes- trians, a large proportion of whom were youn... ...lights of doorsteps, in the streets which radiate from the more ornamental thoroughfare. They went a little way down one of these side streets, and th... ...flow- ered. It was perforated from end to end with immense bare corridors, through which a strong draught was blow- ing—bearing along wonderful figure... ... in the short carriage sweeps to flash and twinkle. Along the road came a hundred little basket phaetons, in which, almost always, a couple of ladies ...

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... and are supposed to be the shades of the ancient proprietors in their court dresses. Little Britain has likewise its sages and great men. One of the ...

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...yyam XXII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Desc... ...st. XXIII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Desc...

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...s; flowers on their heads and breasts, in their hair, scattered over their dresses or lying in garlands at their feet. Light quiverings of the body, v... ...ent and motionless as a statue, he ex- haled the musk-like odor of the old dresses which a duchess’ heirs exhume from her wardrobe during the inventor...

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...r any play. Everything now seemed too good—the scenery, the furniture, the dresses, the very programmes. He seized upon the idea that this was probabl... ...let Grey stared, laughed, then bade him go in to supper. “You know how she dresses!” He was very well pleased at supper, but he was silent and a littl...

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...easures of luxury? Have you never wished that you might wear the beautiful dresses you embroider?” “It would not be the truth, Monsieur Roger, if I we... ...s if roused from a dream. “That women may continue to wear embroidered net dresses, so that I may never lack work.” The frankness of this confession i... ...her as to see a man hanged, just to stare at the priests in their splendid dresses and all the vessels regilt. This house too is a sort of Holy Land. ...

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... The whole figure, one may say, was dumpy. The black silk was not long, as dresses now are worn, nor wide in its skirts. In every way it was skimpy, c...

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...his remark is rich in meanings. Madame Firmiani! dangerous woman! a siren! dresses well, has taste; gives other women sleep- less nights. Y our inform...

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...rt as if to com- mand his temper. ‘Angelica! I hope you have plenty of new dresses; your milliners’ bills are long enough. My dear Queen, you must see... ... went up into her own room, and made Betsinda, her maid, bring out all her dresses; and as for Giglio, they forgot him as much as I forget what I had ... ...don’t you think I am very pretty?’ Indeed, she had on the finest of little dresses and hats; and, as her hair was carefully curled, she really looked ... ...rincess came out, Betsinda was never tired of waiting on her; and made her dresses better than the best milliner, and was useful in a hundred ways. Wh...

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...rt of the chateau, several young men were lounging about in their sporting dresses, looking at and criticizing the dogs which the keepers held in read...

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...Rawdon Crawley’s very narrow means) —to procure, we say, the prettiest new dresses and ornaments; to drive to fine dinner parties, where she was welco... ...ame by us. Thus trade flourishes—civilization advances; peace is kept; new dresses are wanted for new assemblies every week; and the last year’s vinta... ...bed’s edge. The drawers were all opened and their contents scattered about—dresses and feathers, scarfs and trinkets, a heap of tumbled vanities lying... ...nd not only carried off the trinkets before alluded to, and some favourite dresses on which she had long kept her eye, but four richly gilt Louis Quat... ...ling every ar- ticle of furniture or ornament; she fingered Mrs. Osborne’s dresses and calculated their price. Nothing could be too good for that swee... ...dren, bustling nursemaids; ladies in the prettiest pink bonnets and summer dresses; gentlemen in trav- elling caps and linen-jackets, whose mustachios... ...lls along the Pump come troops of people in red petticoats and velvet head-dresses, or with three-cornered hats and pipes in their mouths, who flock t... ... where it was quite pleasant to see the worthy fellows marching in Turkish dresses with rouge on 140 V anity Fair – V olume Three and wooden scimitar... ...r,” she told an old London friend 155 Thackeray who met her, “only, their dresses are not quite so fresh. The men wear cleaned gloves, and are sad ro...

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...he safer if scarcely less absorbing topic of the number of day and evening dresses required for a season at St. Moritz. As she listened to Mrs. V ande... ...ing-out were seemingly all on the same plane to her. The inspection of the dresses lasted a long time, and was marked by many fluctuations of mood on ... ...old life were stealing into her. As she pulled out her tossed and crumpled dresses she remembered Violet’s emphatic warn- ing: “Don’t believe the peop... ...tood that, according to Violet’s standards, and that of all her set, those dresses, which Nick had thought so origi- nal and exquisite, were already c... ...e again in some new form …. She laughed aloud at the turn of her thoughts. Dresses? How little they had mattered a few short weeks ago! And now, per- ... ...es and quarrels, scandals and absurdities. The women, in their pale summer dresses, were so graceful, indolent and sure of themselves, the men so easy... ...yn, Violet Melrose, of their con- descending kindnesses, their last year’s dresses, their Christ- mas cheques, and all the careless bounties that were... ... fashionable mar- riage. She had calculated long ago just how many dinner- dresses, how many tea-gowns and how much lacy lingerie would go to make up ... ...and be seen by her friends superciliously examining all the most expensive dresses in the procession. She knew the rumour was abroad that she and Nick...

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...adies who received in the evenings to wear what were called “simple dinner dresses”: a close-fitting armour of whale-boned silk, slightly open in the ... ... can you ask such funny questions? When they go to the theatre in old ball-dresses and bare heads.” “Well, perhaps they wear new ball-dresses at home;... ...tent, with benches and garden-seats about it. A number of ladies in summer dresses and gentlemen in grey frock-coats and tall hats stood on the lawn o... ...d inelegant for social occasions, and as an opportunity to show off pretty dresses and graceful attitudes the bow and arrow held their own. Archer loo... ...two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them.” “Ah, Jane Merry is one of us,” said Mrs. Ar... ...ng to be in an age when ladies were beginning to flaunt abroad their Paris dresses as soon as they were out of the Custom House, instead of letting th... ...t in Boston the 180 The Age of Innocence rule was to put away one’s Paris dresses for two years. Old Mrs. Baxter Pennilow, who did everything handsom... ... as she was ill for two years before she died they found forty-eight Worth dresses that had never been taken out of tissue paper; and when the girls l... ...rk; but I always think it’s a safe rule for a lady to lay aside her French dresses for one season,” Mrs. Archer conceded. “It was Beaufort who started...

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...rom the mere movement of their lips the words they uttered. Even the ball- dresses of these poor little things were piously irreproach- able; their mu... ...veiled, delighted the eye when their hus- bands requested them to wear low dresses to a ball, on which occasion they both felt a pleasing shame, which... ... magnifi- cent spectacle to the eye,—flowers, diamonds, and brilliant head-dresses; all jewel-boxes emptied; all resources of the toilet put under con... ...g in candelabra. This assemblage of the prettiest women in their prettiest dresses stood out upon a gloomy background of men in black coats, among who... ...e two in the morning; but she must rise early to study her part, order her dresses, try them on, breakfast, read her love-letters, answer them, discus...

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...ther isn’t it? but I haven’t my fortune to be settled, or my wedding dresses to be made, like the great ladies, father, have I? And he said so... ... were books and toys for the New Year, glittering trinkets for the New Year, dresses for the New Year, schemes of fortune for the New Year; new inven... ...hen the lower doors were opened, and the people flocked in, in their rustic dresses, the beauty of the spectacle was at its height; but Trotty only m...

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... and shadows, the cries and stenches, the fruit-shops and fish-stalls, the dresses and chat- ter of all nations; the soldiers in scarlet, and women in... ...im to be off. Although the ladies are veiled, and muffled with the ugliest dresses in the world, yet it appears their modesty is alarmed in 68 Notes ... ...and servants were lolling, ichoglans and pages, with lazy looks and shabby dresses; and among them, sunning himself sulkily on a bench, a poor old fat... ...re. A new costume was here added to the motley and picturesque assembly of dresses. This was the dress of the blue-veiled women from the Lebanon, stal... ...contumely which attended them with- out, as they passed, in their European dresses and shaven beards, among their grisly, scowling, long-robed country... ...ered jacket and gaiters, and a pair of trousers, which would make a set of dresses for an English family. His beard curls nobly over his chest, his Da...