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1. away was the fact that he was wearing the most elegant set of dress frock and tails,
2. "But can I truly have a new frock, Mammy, and new shoes--and is it really Christmas?"
3. "And here's a new frock for you, Katey," old Ann went on, after making John happy with his treasures, "a real bright one, and a pair of shoes,
4. touch of colour; and she, looking quite handsome in her new frock and
5. Her frock was dripping with brown water, clinging to
6. A figure Manda recognized instantly, with its long dark frock, unmistakable gray locks, and hard, piercing eyes
7. She stood by the short stump of a tree, in that same blue frock, with her matted gray hair dangling like seaweed over her face
8. 4 From him who wears purple and a crown, him who is clothed with a linen frock
9. assimilated, and not at all tolerant of the recent Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe: Adolph himself had little tolerance for Jews who wore unclipped beards and long black frock coats, feeling it was unfair of them to set themselves “apart from other men, and then complain that [they are] treated differently from other men
10. Tui had on a simple white summer cotton frock with thin black vertical lines down the side accentuating her curves
11. She was devoid of make-up, wearing a skimpy white sun frock with nothing underneath
12. Yelkais wore a black frock coat over their uniforms, where the hems and collar had the color of their nation
13. Sitting at the edge was S’us, wearing a pink and white head-wrap and dressed in an old black frock with frilly orange straps
14. She was tall, lean and muscular, yet still maintaining feminine grace and quality as she strode pass them in white blouse and black frock
15. Thus I learned for the first time, that it had been much as I surmised, and I heard, in that calm, gentle voice, how the drink crazed creature, creeping up behind her while she was slicing vegetables, had grabbed her from behind, scratching her and tearing her frock; how she had spun around in shock and the knife had entered his chest
16. She saw Ansh unzipping her short frock and she wanted to stop him, but to her shock she saw her own hands matching his actions and unbuttoning his shirt
17. A British protocol officer wearing a black frock coat and top hat hurried to them with a list in his hands and bowed respectfully in front of King Stan
18. Nancy went on as Stan was shaking hands with Prince Franz Josef, a relatively young aristocrat in frock coat and top hat
19. He wore a frock coat and a pair of gray stripped pants despite the heavy heat of the Summer
20. Over the brow of the hill came two men, one of them wearing a pointy hat and a frock
21. ‘Come on, who’s going to worry about that? That bloke in the black frock, or that woman with her
22. Hal felt better already, but as he stared at Abigail, who still wore her strange green frock, he came to the conclusion that he didn’t want her to come with him
23. What is the good of loving chocolate to distraction when it only ends by making you sick? And the joy of a new frock or hat is dashed at once when you meet the superior gorgeousness of some other girl's frock or hat
24. Yet, what had changed? There, round his table, still sat his clean and shining children--little Jim fastened into a high chair, with his nurse next to him shovelling him up with porridge, and on the other side of the table little Audrey his eldest, and little Joan, the middle one; while at the end, opposite him, freshly soaped, and neat in her morning frock, was his glossy wife, looking after everybody, joking with the children, reading her letters, all at one and the same time
25. Beside this brevity Ingeborg, in a white frock and wearing the buckled shoes of youth, with the sun shining on her freckled fairness and bare neck and her mouth framed into welcoming smiles, looked like a child
26. She sat between the two men in her old-fashioned voluminous white frock, looking from one to the other with eager pride while they talked
27. For not only did its bareness afflict her, and its glaring light, and its long empty table, and the way Chesterton's footsteps echoed up and down the uncarpeted floor, but there on the wall was that poor thing looking at her, she had no doubt whatever as to who it was standing up in that long slim frock looking at her, and she was taken aback
28. The marker disappeared beneath the spread of his frock
29. The pink frock she was wearing was muddied and torn, and her cheek was bruised
30. admiral’s uniform and “adopted a Franciscan monk’s frock, which he never took off
31. Finally, it seems, the frock makes the clergyman
32. A butler in frock coat, white shirt and black bow tie answered the door and told me Sir Karam was expecting me and led me to the library
33. amateur TV historian, Bob Frock, who is writing a book them
34. The building spoke of genteel Victorian prosperity, of top hats and frock coats, and ladies with wasp waists in crinoline and bonnets
35. 'Pooftah!' hissed the jay, 'Great frilly party frock of a big girl's blouse!'
36. He, and his old canvas frock, and his loose stockings, and all his poor tatters of clothes, had, in a long seclusion from direct light and air, faded down to such a dull uniformity of parchment-yellow, that it would have been hard to say which was which
37. ' You'll admit that to hear such a confession, alone, from an angel of sixteen in a muslin frock, with little curls, with a flush of maiden shyness in her cheeks and tears of enthusiasm in her eyes is rather fascinating! Isn't it fascinating? It's worth paying for, isn't it? Well
38. It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself
39. Beth was worried by the confusion of her closet and the difficulty of learning three or four songs at once, and Amy deeply regretted the damage done her frock, for Katy Brown's party was to be the next day and now like Flora McFlimsey, she had `nothing to wear'
40. Feeling stronger than ever to meet and subdue her Apollyon, she pinned the note inside her frock, as a shield and a reminder, lest she be taken unaware, and proceeded to open her other letter, quite ready for either good or bad news
41. Don Quixote was about to thank him, when they heard behind them a noise as of a troop of horses; there was, however, but one, riding on which at a furious pace came a youth, apparently about twenty years of age, clad in green damask edged with gold and breeches and a loose frock, with a hat looped up in the Walloon fashion, tight-fitting polished boots, gilt spurs, dagger and sword, and in his hand a musketoon, and a pair of pistols at his waist
42. A little frock which the nurse's child wore (Maria had made it herself) caught her eye
43. And later on he had a sketch he prized very much: Connie sitting on the stool before the wheel, her flowing mane of red hair on her rusty black frock, her red mouth shut and serious, running the scarlet thread off the hank on to the reel
44. And her discoloured, old blue frock and her broken boots seemed only like the romantic rags of King Cophetua's beggar-maid
45. Yet Paul thought the girl looked so nice in her brown cashmere frock
46. As she went home, solitary, in her new frock, having her people to face at the other end, he stood still with shame and pain in the highroad, thinking of the suffering he caused her
47. "Why have you that silk frock on, then?" he said
48. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament; her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck
49. The frock was of light silk, and clung to her with wet, and her feet were protected merely by thin slippers; add to this a deep cut under one ear, which only the cold prevented from bleeding profusely, a white face scratched and bruised, and a frame hardly able to support itself, through fatigue; and you may fancy my first fright was not much allayed when I had had leisure to examine her
50. "And to-morrow, Catherine, will you be here to-morrow?" asked young Heathcliff, holding her frock as she rose reluctantly
1. Off to the side of the large screen, he caught sight of the white, frocked
1. allowances, party frocks and charge card accounts would be
2. He had not had time to watch the girls’ arrival, and was conscious as he worked only that the women were young and attractive, and all dressed in gray frocks with white blouses
3. Whatever the cause, by five o'clock twenty relaxed and increasingly frisky strangers of both sexes between the ages of thirty and fifty in a bizarre assortment of “twenties” style beaded, fringed, low waisted skimpy frocks, dinner suits and tails were sipping cocktails in the drawing room, served, like Katherine Mansfield’s somewhat more literary crowd, by a nude butler and, unlike Mansfield, two maids in nothing but frilly aprons
4. and wore cotton frocks, and then tonight, by far the worst of all, two long hours of a
5. The Sirens wore plain white frocks, cut low at the front, and their hair flowed loose over their shoulders
6. And she pictured herself turning gradually into her own caricature, an unkind caricature--more than unkind, a highly malicious parody of what she used to be--still going to parties because she couldn't bear to be alone, and when she got to them hardly able to keep her eyes open, still snatching at invitations and ordering new frocks; an old woman who would be explained to the indifferent young ones as somebody who once was much more beautiful than they could ever hope to be
7. All those dreary tea-gowns in which she had trailed through the seven years of her marriage, dark garments whose sole function was to hide, were given to Ilse, her first servant, who had married poverty and who frugally turned them into trousers of assorted shapes for her husband, embittering him permanently; and from long-forgotten cupboards she got out small neat frocks again, portions of her unworn tremendous trousseau, short things, washable and tidy, and was refreshed into respect for herself as a decent human being by the mere putting of them
8. Anjali was renting white frocks from a local retailer for the dance
9. The Turks used to be so picturesque with their long and flowing robes, but are they not now hideous with their blue frocks buttoned up to the chin, and their red caps, which make them look like a bottle of wine with a red seal? Franz complimented Albert, who looked at himself in the glass with an unequivocal smile of satisfaction
10. The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico
11. You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent for Alice
12. Frocks were made or altered and washed, seams and flounces were let out, buttons were sewn on, and ribbons got ready
13. The new frocks were taken off, and orders were given for the little girls to have their blouses put on, and the
14. and view for herself the lovely laces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler
15. She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellow watered velvet ribbons; baby blue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers
16. used to trim them, that the Empress of France had abandoned the chignon for evening wear and had her hair piled almost on the top of her head, showing all of her ears, and that evening frocks were shockingly low again
17. She did not care for the eager all except to catch husbands, and the shamelessness of it made her wonder what the competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget their twice-turned frocks and patched shoes
18. Hoops were out More exciting than the people she met were the frocks Rhett bought her, now, and the new styles were charming with the skirts pulled back from the front and draped over bustles, and on the bustles were wreaths of flowers and bows and embarrassed at these new skirts which undeniably outlined her abdomen
19. While she had been away with him, tantrums when Mammy tried to dress her in dimity frocks and pinafores instead of blue taffeta and lace collars
20. The two biggest of the younger children had gone out with their mother; the four smallest, their ages ranging from three-and-a-half years to eleven, all in black frocks, were gathered round the hearth babbling their own little subjects
21. At last frocks ceased to appear, and he dropped hopelessly into the dumps; he entered the empty schoolhouse and sat down to suffer
22. Two girls of about ten and twelve, dressed in dirty short frocks and cloaks, were staring at their mother with a look of stupefaction on their pale frightened faces
23. and Mrs Holland had nothing but the thin cotton frocks that they had
24. This was quite a big place, with counters and dummies clothed in summer frocks, and I was interested to see a small, secluded part served by a middle- aged woman where the elderly could buy the
25. There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads
26. Then, when it's frozen you stiff, it plays that fine sweet soul-searching music that smells of fresh-washed frocks of women dancing on back-yard lines in May, that sounds like haystacks trampled into wine, all that blue sky and summer night-on-the-lake kind of tune until your head bangs with the drums that look like full moons beating around the calliope
27. Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores
28. Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander’s purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles
29. She would have Sophie to look over all her “toilettes,” as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were “passées,” and to air and arrange the new
30. "She has frocks of every other color
31. They were accustomed to being rich and comfortable, and as Sara's frocks grew shorter and shabbier and queerer-looking, and it became an established fact that she wore shoes with holes in them and was sent out to buy groceries and carry them through the streets in a basket on her arm when the cook wanted them in a hurry, they felt rather as if, when they spoke to her, they were addressing an under servant
32. Veronica Eustacia and Rosalind Gladys, in white-lace frocks and lovely sashes, had just got in, and Guy Clarence, aged five, was following them
33. And therefore, let not the knights of that honourable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to St
34. Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their wrists with all day rowing on the Line,—they only step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash, yea, and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves to cleanse the ship, and make a spotless dairy room of it; many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There she blows!" and away they fly to fight another whale, and go through the whole weary thing again
35. Even Allie Boone, whose frocks came from Paris, was wont to look with longing eyes on that rosebud concoction as Anne trailed up the main staircase at Redmond in it
36. They were dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and bright
37. Lovely frilly feminine garments, dainty slippers all buckle and heel, dear little everyday frocks and lingerie blouses, and gowns for occasions in the big trays beneath
38. Stephen was not very learned in the make of women’s frocks, but he understood color and could appreciate how that steely-blue made her complexion glow warm as ivory and her hair like copper
39. But London’s first and most striking impression concerning this delightful acquisition from the States was derived from her wonderful and lovely gowns—her French frocks are, for taste and becomingness, quite paralyzing to even a breath of criticism, and from the first moment of her début in London they excited only the most whole-souled enthusiasm in the hearts of all beholders of both sexes
40. A general impression, also, is prevailing to the effect that one reason why our American cousins wear their fine frocks with such good results is because they hold their heads high and their backs flat and straight