 | 1823 - 732 pages
...as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress hi 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...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,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...afraid of a wet floor. — His dress in visiting was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, tic partridge silk stockings, and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1823 - 572 pages
...under his arm ' 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. 1 remember, when a child,... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...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 stockjngs, and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace. I remember, when a child,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...afraid of a wet floor. — His dress in visiting was most usually, in sum*. am'r, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat '^embroidered with...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...as if afraid of a wet floor His dress in visiting was most usually, in sumjner, 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,... | |
 | 206 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...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, nifties 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... 
