United States or Kyrgyzstan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Miss Scott came, black haired and black-dressed, not handsome but said to be highly accomplished, and she is the daughter of Sir Walter Scott. There was much conversation. I talked but little, but, believe me, I listened and observed, careful if ignorant. I cannot write more now. I have just returned from the Royal Society.
With words of compliment and solicitation, the black-dressed assistant displayed the armouries of Venus armouries filled with the deep blue of midnight, with the faint tints of dawn, with strange flowers and birds, with moths, and moons, and stars.
'But it can't matter, and it isn't wrong, and we are quite alone. She picked off the little flake of plaster, and her heart sprang into her mouth as she did so, for there came an indignant snort from her very elbow, and there was a queer little smoke-dried, black-dressed person who seemed to have risen, like the Eastern genii or a modern genius, in a single instant.
It was not busy, the hour being somewhat late and the day Saturday, and so against the walls, on either side the long halls, were ranged sentinel rows of white-aproned, white-capped, black-dressed waitresses. They were dawdling over their tea Ned and Nellie were, not the waitresses having dined exceedingly well on soup and fish and flesh and pudding.
The drove has some ultimate market, and individuals are peddled out on the march. Some die. The tavern-keeper in Stockbridge, an elderly bachelor, a dusty, black-dressed, antiquated figure, with a white neckcloth setting off a dim, yellow complexion, looking like one of the old wax-figures of ministers in a corner of the New England Museum.
"But away with melancholy reminiscences. You may fancy what a figure the Irregulars cut on a field-day a line of five hundred black-faced, black-dressed, black-horsed, black-bearded men Biggs, Glogger, and the other officers in yellow, galloping about the field like flashes of lightning; myself enlightening them, red, solitary, and majestic, like yon glorious orb in heaven.
You may fancy what a figure the Irregulars cut on a field-day a line of five hundred black-faced, black-dressed, black-horsed, black-bearded men Biggs, Glogger, and the other officers in yellow, galloping about the field like flashes of lightning; myself enlightening them, red, solitary, and majestic, like yon glorious orb in heaven.
They gathered, a sober, black-dressed group, in the cold and dreary parlor, Ferd Eastman looking almost indecorously cheerful and rosy, in his checked suit and with his big diamond ring glittering on his fat hand. There was no will to read, but Billy had ascertained what none of the sisters knew, the exact figures of the mortgage, the value of the contents of Mrs.
Any of the preoccupied citizens of B who might have encountered this black-dressed, pale young woman sauntering up their crowded street this morning, could scarcely have divined what was going on behind those still, gray eyes.
Word Of The Day