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Mama won't mind it in the least." "If you have a new net over-skirt I shall have one too. You're not to have an evening frock more than me. So come! I shall have blue again. Blue tarlatan with white frillings on the flounces. Blue is my colour. Reggie said so to-night." "I suppose he admired you in that wreath of forget-me-nots?" "He didn't say I was to tell you, if he did!
On either side the land ran away from us and hid beneath the dancing waves which ruffled the sea's sleeve, so that we saw of it only long stripes of green, which were great dykes, and irregular frillings of red, which were steeples and tiled roofs of houses. The tide was in our favor, and we moved so quickly that Alb thought we would have no difficulty in reaching Middelburg by nightfall.
Let us hope that it did them good; it is all we can do now about it. Up in the work-room of a great dress-making establishment were heaps of delicate cambric, Victoria lawn, piqués, muslins, piles of frillings, Hamburg edgings, insertions, bands.
The dining room door opened and she tried to stifle her swiftly coming breaths. Virginia could see a pair of legs, man's legs, and they weren't country legs either. Following them were the light frillings of a woman's skirts. "It's warmer here," said Miss Merriweather's voice. Molly and the man took chairs. From her position Virginia could not see his face.
In course of time they arrived the palest blue, with little harmless frillings to them; and the old chintz was carried off to the Servants' Hall to make a box cover. There it still hangs, and if you stoop down and examine it closely, you will see the Chintz Imp looking more lively than ever, with his green hat on one side, and a twinkling red eye on the watch for any sort of amusement.
She was evidently a special kind of French girl a Protestant from East France Besanon Besanon Miriam had tried the pretty word over until unexpectedly she had fallen asleep. They had risen hurriedly in the cold March gloom and Miriam had not spoken to her since. There she sat, dainty and quiet and fresh. White frillings shone now at the neck and sleeves of her little grey dress.
Most cook books are written by folk who cook by hearsay it is the fewest number of real cooks who can write so as not to bewilder the common or garden variety of mind. The bulk of what follows has an old-time Southern foundation, with such frillings as experience approves.
A shadow falls across the paper on which he is writing he glances up beholds an airy fairy vision regarding him with a saucy smile a slight graceful creature clothed in shell-pink with daintiest lace frillings at the throat and wrists, and with a wealth of nut-brown locks brought low on her white brow, letting only the great grey eyes shine out.
Here, in spite of the trimmings and the frillings, it refuses to be subdued and the clamour and the clatter of it are loud above all other sounds as sometimes the thunder of disorganised engines stops conversations along the decks of a liner, and in the inquiring eyes of the passengers you read the question 'This thing is made and paid to bear us to port quietly.
Look at the way she carries herself, whether in those white frillings of her simple school-gown, or that black evening dress that makes her look like a princess! And, blank me, if she isn't one! There's no poor stock there no white trash no mixed blood, sir.
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