United States or Tunisia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I suppose an impulse to offer the man a garment of some sort moved me to address him. "'You're nearly naked, I said. "He crossed one leg over the other with the toe of the carpet slipper touching the walk, in the manner of a burlesque actor, took the cigarette out of his mouth with a little flourish, and replied to me: "'Sure, Governor, I ain't dolled up like John Drew.
The gray sea was now blue; the white paint of the houses and fences glistened in the sun; the groves of pitchpine were brilliant green blotches spread like rugs here and there on the brown hills. South Denboro had thrown off its gloomy raiment and was "all dolled up for Thanksgivin'," so Captain Elisha said.
So she was very fussy about her husband's appearance, his dress and manners and appointments; and insisted upon giving him every accessory of luxury, everything that rich men supposably enjoy. As her nearest and dearest possession, she was more concerned with his brave appearance than she was with her own. She "dolled" him up, as Sadie Paul laughingly called it.
"While you're all dolled up," he said with a snort, as though bent on wounding her, "dolled up like a lobster palace floater!" It hurt him more than ever to see that he could not even dethrone that fixed look of pity from her face, that even his abuse could not thrust aside her composure. "I 'm not a lobster palace floater," she quietly replied. "And you know it."
"Come on; you're dolled up enough." "My my gloves I I forgot 'em. You you can go on, Hat." And she must burrow back beneath the counter. Miss Krakow let out a snort, as fiery with scorn as though flames were curling on her lips. "Hanging round to see whether he's coming, ain't you? To think they shot Lincoln and let him live!
She was laughing at his surprise, and there was a half teasing, half serious look in her eyes that was irresistible. "By George, you are a picture, Helen!" John exclaimed, with not a little brotherly pride in his face and voice. "But what is the idea? What are you down here for all dolled up like this?" She blushed with pleasure at his compliment.
Instead of a quirt she carried a fan in her hand and there was a handkerchief tucked into her belt. The chrysalis of the cowgirl had burst and this butterfly had emerged. Of late it was not often that Frances had "dolled up," as the old Captain called it. Now he said, enthusiastically: "My! you do look sweet! What's all the dolling up for? Me? The Chinks? Or maybe that boy upstairs, eh?"
We'll see nothing! BOLSHÓV bursts out laughing; USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA walks off with LÍPOCHKA to the other side of the stage. USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA inspects the girl's dress. USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. My! how you're dolled up that dress certainly makes you look better. You didn't make it yourself, did you? LÍPOCHKA. Horrible need I had of making it! Why, do you think we're beggars? What are dressmakers for?
If you'll tell me what makes more noise in the middle of the night than the metal disk of a hotel key banging and clanging up against a door, I'd like to know what it is. My three Bisons were all dolled up with fool ribbons and badges and striped paper canes. When they switched on the light I gave a crack imitation of a tired working man trying to get a little sleep.
Never in its palmiest days had the 'Dobe Dollar's mirrors reflected a costume more gaudy than the one she was wearing. The men too were painted and dolled up extravagantly in vaqueros' costumes that were the limit of absurdity. Had they all escaped from a madhouse? Or was he, Steve Yeager, in a pipe-dream? From a near grove of cottonwoods half a dozen men in chaps came running.
Word Of The Day