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Updated: June 29, 2025

The scarlet coats of the British officers made the narrow but briskly-moving streets brilliant; but even without them, the embroidered coats, silken small clothes and clocked stockings, powdered wigs and cocked hats of the fine gentlemen, and the wide hoops and imposing head-dresses of the women, made a handsome show.

Julian Hawthorne - The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 : From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775

But when I reached the linden, and, leaning my back against it, went on playing gay waltzes, a whisper went round among the groups of young people to the right and left; the lads laid aside their pipes, each put his arm around his lass's waist, and in the twinkling of an eye the young folk were all waltzing around me; the dogs barked, skirts and coat-tails fluttered, and the children stood around me in a circle gazing curiously into my face and at my briskly-moving fingers.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English