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They were made of the richest velvets and satins and laces, but were all of such an antiquated mode that it seemed impossible to advise anyone to wear them without remodeling. But, as Miss Daggett was very much in earnest, Patty concluded that she must necessarily make some choice. Accordingly, she picked out a lavender moire silk, trimmed with soft white lace at the throat and wrist.
Old Brownsmith stopped to blow his nose on a brown-and-orange silk handkerchief, and stroke two or three cats, while I sawed away very slowly, waiting for what was to come. "Then he went round by where one apple-tree, like that, had lost a bough, and whose stump he had carefully trimmed just as you are going to trim that, Grant." "I know," I cried, eagerly; "and then "
The unfortunate Caroline, wife of George the Fourth, lived at Blackheath, and drove occasionally in an open carriage through the streets of Greenwich, and there I saw her. I have a perfect recollection of her face and figure. A very common-looking red face it was, and a very "dowdy" figure. She wore always an enormous flat-brimmed "Leghorn" hat, trimmed with ostrich feathers.
But he did not know that she found a pleasure in the sight of his hand scrupulously kept, the nails as well trimmed as a bushman's nails can be, while showing the traces of manual labour. 'How ridiculous they are together! she said softly 'But I like your hand, Colin. It's different from the other men's hands.
But it was a rule that if either disapproved, the thing in question was not bought. Only such as both sanctioned could come into their home. The house had a wide and hospitable Colonial doorway, with broad fanlight above and columns at either side. Seats, too, flanked the porch, and the carefully trimmed wistaria vine hung gracefully over all.
This done I late to bed. Among other things it pleased me to have it demonstrated, that a Purser without professed cheating is a professed loser, twice as much as he gets. 23rd. Up betimes, and so, being trimmed, I to get papers ready against Sir H. Cholmly come to me by appointment, he being newly come over from Tangier.
Jean had trimmed a little tree for the General, and the children carried it up to him carefully and sang a carol having first arranged on his table, under the lamp, the purple camels, to create an atmosphere. "'We three kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse far Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star " "Yonner 'tar," piped Margaret-Mary.
And after trimming ourselves for it, the sage asks your permission to add, it will be the thing we are most certain some day to feel. Had not she trimmed herself? so much that she had won fame for an originality mistaken by her for the independent mind, and perilously, for courage. She had trimmed herself and Alvan too herself to meet it, and Alvan to be it.
His velvet trappings were trimmed with gold lace and his medals shone like gold. He walked upon a tight rope away up in the peaked roof of the tent; he held a wand in his hand by which to balance himself and in the other hand a cup of tea which he drank in the very middle of his walk; tossing it off, bowing to the crowd below, and bringing the cup and saucer to the other end in safety.
A third woman, evidently at the initial stage of her career, gazed, almost shamefaced, at the luxury of her two established and wealthy companions. Simply dressed in white cashmere trimmed with blue, her head had been dressed with real flowers by a coiffeur of the old-fashioned school, whose awkward hands had unconsciously given the charm of ineptitude to her fair hair.
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