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... cravat!" – he snaps – "She is not a floozy, has a lot of style" – he sounds proud. I don a necktie. "Now listen up" – Eli expounds – "I told her ab... ...down to his darkening collar. He thrusts two alcohol-swollen fingers and loosens his shabby necktie. His bloodshot eyes dart from one grimy corner o... ... I mulled four years of images while genteelly strolling down the promenade, unfastening my necktie and nibbling at a colossal ice cream cone. At la...

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...’s muffled voice from the small back room. He emerged whilst adjusting his necktie. “Oh! Madame LeMaitre! I am so glad you have come to visit agai...

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...o persuade the fetid one's Chinese girlfriend to buy him a white shirt and necktie so that he could apply at the Bangkok Metropolitan Transportation D...

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...oins, stamps, buttons, the heads of zippers, pins, capitalized letters, hats, neckties. Aiguillettes. Before buttons were invented: the Aiguillete ...

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...o his dress, and he begged them to observe that she had drawn him with his necktie hanging loose. ‘ And that, I say that has never been known of me si... ...ks of profound concern; for the fact was, the General had come without any necktie and any collar, and he appeared to be unaware of the circumstance. ... ...r had told them, that in answer to a hint he had dropped on the subject of neckties, General Ople expressed a slight apprehension of apoplexy; but his... ...ts to answer the question, he was asked: ‘And what have you done with your necktie and collar?’ He touched his throat. ‘I am rather nervous to-day, I ... ... with a triumphing humour on her close-drawn lips. The verified absence of necktie and collar seemed to be choking him. ‘Never mind, you have been abr...

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...he money that Zerkow paid her, Maria spent on shirt waists and dotted blue neckties, trying to dress like the girls who tended the soda-water fountain... ...s spied upon him going in and out of his office, and noted his salmon-pink neckties and his astonishing waistcoats. One Sunday, a few days after Trina... ...Albert coat and his best slate-blue trousers, and wearing the made-up lawn necktie that Marcus had selected for him. Trina was very pretty in the blac... ... shoes—veritable instruments of torture. Around his collar was a wonderful necktie that Trina had given him; it was of salmon-pink satin; in its centr... ...began to show off at once. They took off their coats and vests, even their neckties and collars, and worked themselves into a lather of per- spiration... ...ar?” he snarled. “Yes, Mac.” The dentist took off his coat, his collar and necktie, unbuttoned his vest, and slipped his heavy-soled boots from his bi...

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... what he was about to do. He was about to go up to London, so that hat and necktie might wait. What had come as straight to him as a ball in a well-pl... ...flaunted an affinity with the dealers in stamped letter-paper and in smart neckties. Strether was in fact recurrently shame- 46 The Ambassadors less ... ...chase of a pair of gloves, the terms she made about it, the prohibition of neckties and other items till she should be able to guide him through the B... ...ost. “It has come then at last?” Strether paused in the act of pinning his necktie. “Then you know—? You’ve had one too?” “No, I’ve had nothing, and I...

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...gh he might pass for his companion’s sickly little brother. Now and then he had a five-franc piece, and except once, when they bought a couple of love... ...t, as if they ought to take care not to spoil him. If Mr. Moreen hadn’t been such a man of the world he would perhaps have spoken of the freedom of su...

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... mischief is that ’twill not last. Oh I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where, 30 And carried half way home, or near, Pints and...

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...ue cloth suit with brass buttons, a stick- up collar like a gentleman’s, a necktie arranged in a sailor’s knot, a golden pin in the shape of a little ...

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...watched him. His cupboard stood open; in it there were two shirts, a white necktie and a razor. The razor made me shud- der. A looking-glass, worth fi...

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...- ments and angles, of dreary and distinguished knowledge. Of his unconscious drollery his dress freely partook; it seemed, from the gold ring into wh...

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...d boxes on the table, which might have contained gloves or handkerchies or neckties. I wonder what the fellow did keep in them? There was a smell of d...

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...sekeeper told him that his hat was too shabby before buying a new one. His necktie was always crumpled and starchless, and he never set his dog-eared ...

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...arched collar, white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clear necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a ...

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...aring a tidy overcoat, rather short trousers, grey doeskin gloves, and two neckties—a black one outside, and a white one below it. There was an air of...

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...t brilliant, you’re good and kind to your aged mother; but your scarfs and neckties are simply im- possible.” “W ell, look at this room!” he shouted—t...

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...e his panta loons. He had shoes on — and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate... ...ourn, Tom?” “I’m going to buy a new drum, and a sure ’nough sword, and a red necktie and a bull pup, and get married.” “Married!” “That’s it.” “Tom, y...

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... in the room, too, a serious youth, with arched eyebrows and wearing a red necktie, who struck me as being absolutely in the dark about everything in ... ...at her back. Over her shoulder I perceived the arched eyebrows and the red necktie of her brother. “The last people in the world I wanted to see then!...

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...th such determination that the very ends of his quaintly old-fashioned bow necktie seemed to bristle with unspeak- able menaces. The movement was so s... ...At this his interlocutor, smiling mockingly above the bristling bow of his necktie, switched the conversation into French. “Y ou give yourself for an ...