United States or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Then he washed his face and hands, and made himself dry and glowing; let down his sleeves, and served them some Yorkshire pie, and bread, and salt, and stirred a little sugar into the wine, and poured it into the saucers. "Now eat a bit, both of you, before you go." Mr. Coventry responded at once to the invitation. But Grace said, timidly, "Yes, if you will eat with us." "No, no," said he.
I recalled him as when of an evening in front of a good fire, I pulled off his little socks. What a treat. I would say "one, two." And he, clad in his long nightgown, his hands lost in the sleeves, would wait with glittering eyes, and ready to break into a fit of laughter for the "three."
From its lowest hem up four inches it was sheerly dirty with the blue dust of the floor; for the next three inches it was gray then it shaded off into its natural color, which, was pink. It was dirty at the sleeves, too, and at the collar and when the woman turned to lead the way into the parlor, Roxanne was sure that her neck was dirty. A one-sided rattle of conversation began. Mrs.
A vision of her father's slatternly, one-suspendered shoulders, and button-less sleeves flapping about his rough brown wrists, set against this well-shirted gentleman produced sharp contrast and made of the future a thing altogether desirable. The useless arguments between her parents arose before her also; she resolved to argue less and love more.
He wore a heavy gold chain about his neck, and it might be observed that upon the light full sleeves of his slashed doublet the image of a small ship on a terrestrial globe was curiously and many times embroidered. It was not the first time that he had visited the Netherlands.
Goodness, what a lot of material there is in these angel sleeves!"... She held it up consideringly... "Wait a minute, Joy, I think I read my title clear." She ran out of the room, coming back in a moment with a life-size dress-form in her arms, which she set down. "Here's Dora, the dress-model," she said cheerfully. "She adjusts."
"Oh, yes," said the small star gazer, "I know as much as any of them about the style of sleeves they're going to wear next fall in Mars." "Well, really!" said Miss Longnecker. "The star you refer to is Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia. It is nearly of the second magnitude, and its meridian passage is " "Oh," said the very young Mr. Evans, "I think Billy Jackson is a much better name for it."
"But she isn't likely to go to another party this winter, and she will want it for a best dress all next summer," said Mrs. Leverett. "Oh, I should have long sleeves, as well, and just baste them in. And there's so much silk I should make a fichu to tie round in the back with two long ends. You can make that any time. And a scant ruffle not more than an inch wide when it is finished.
You have seen more service out here than any of us, and I think that you are certainly entitled to the command; though really, I don't see what we can do, in our uniforms." "I quite agree with you, Captain Travers, and therefore my proposal is that we shall all take them off, and fight in our shirt sleeves.
All British bare upon the bristled skin, Close notchéd is his beard both lip and chin; His linen collar labyrinthian set, Whose thousand double turnings never met: His sleeves half hid with elbow pinionings, As if he meant to fly with linen wings. But when I look, and cast mine eyes below, What monster meets mine eyes in human show?
Word Of The Day