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Then the bodices: now nothing was to be seen but the "square cut" which revealed the fine busts of beauties in the days of Charles II., now graceful folds a coeur sentimentally ruled the day, now infant waists became a passion, and the most maternal forms aped the juvenility borrowed from their babies.
You may drive Whitefoot on, and we will follow." "Oh, mamma! Mr. Carpenter didn't tell half the beauties of the scenery," exclaimed Emma, gazing from the carriage window; "and we thought that he exaggerated. Only look at the water glistening through the trees; and then the reflection of that weeping willow in the lake is so perfect."
In glowing June, amid the beauties of nature, now overcome by intense heat and obliged to march at two o'clock in the morning, now drenched by heavy rains, the French plodded on, and joined their American comrades along the Hudson early in July.
Hence he was able to point out the fact that there were thousands of the great pearl-oysters clustering about the coral reefs which looked so shrub-like below. "Look here, doctor," cried the boy, excitedly; "it's just like a lovely garden." "Exactly," said the doctor; "a garden that lives and grows without a soul to admire its beauties." "No, we're admiring them, sir," said Carey, promptly.
Perkins, like herself, had an appreciation of the scenic beauties, and also the picturesque phases of life as it ran in the Cariboo country. They talked of many things, discussed life in a city as compared with existence in the wild, and were agreed that both had desirable features and drawbacks. Finally Mr.
The young man was in travelling dress; to see the joy which shone on his face, one would have taken him for a young husband showing his young wife the beauties and pleasures of Parisian life. His happiness was calm and subdued, as true happiness always is. The experienced would have recognized in him the youth who merges into manhood.
You don't understand that beauty in society means a fashion, and not much more. I have seen a quantity of beauties in my day. How they came to be so, nobody knew; but there they were, and we all bowed down to them. This woman, however, was very pretty, there was no doubt about it," said Lady Randolph, with reluctant candour. "I don't know what she may be now.
The rush after money has latterly brought some of our most exquisite writers of fiction into a condition which is truly lamentable; the very beauties which marked their early work have become garish and vulgarised, and, in running through the early chapters of a new novel, a reader of fair intelligence discovers that he could close the book and tell the story for himself.
Once she expatiated to Fraeulein Wolf in Brian's presence upon the picturesque beauties of the Abbey. 'It is the dearest, noblest old house you can conceive, she said; 'and the old, old gardens and park are something too lovely: but I believe Mr. Wendover does not care a straw about the place. 'You know what comes of familiarity, answered Brian, carelessly.
The carriage moved, but at that moment she touched the coachman with her parasol and the slim-legged beauties, the bay mares, stopped, bending their beautiful necks and stepping from foot to foot.
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