 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 ページ
...dress in visiting is described by Miss Hawkins as being in summer, the season when she mostly saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver ; or of white silk worked on the tambour, partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles and frill, generally lace. ... In... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1893 - 362 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually, in summer when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver or of white silk worked in 1 It must, by his own ac- and if I do not flatter myself, count, have been peculiar. my march at present... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1897 - 432 ページ
...if afraid of a wet floor. His dress " in visiting was most usually (in summer when I most saw " him) a lavender suit ; the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour ; " partridge silk stockings ; and gold buckles ; ruffles and " frill generally lace. I remember, when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 836 ページ
...аз if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually, in snmmer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the. tambour, partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually (in summer when I most saw him) a lavender suit; the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour; partridge silk stockings; and gold buckles; ruffles and frill generally lace. I remember when a child... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1899 - 650 ページ
...breeches of snuff-coloured cloth, and stockings of the same colour ; for ceremony, like Horace Walpole, in a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver or of white silk embroidered in the tambourframe, partridge-silk stockings, gold buckles, ruffles, lace frill and powdered... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 410 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour, partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles, and frill generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 404 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour, partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles, and frill generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually (in summer when I most saw him) a lavender suit; the waistcoat embroidered with a...little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour; partridge silk stockings; and gold buckles; ruffles and frill generally lace. I remember when a child... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 ページ
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually (in summer when I most saw him) his small and unpretending volume of the Federalist;...not even if we resort to Aristotle, Cicero, Machiav partridge silk stockings; and gold buckles; ruffles and frill, generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
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... bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His... 
