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Updated: June 7, 2025
Meta, a beautiful nose leaping out at you in a high curve; narrow, delicate cheeks thinned away so that they seemed part of the nose; sweet rodent mouth smiling up under its tip; blurred violet eyes arching vaguely. Princess gowns stiffened their shawl and crinoline gestures. "So this is Mary. She's not like her mother, Caroline. Meta, can you see any likeness?"
A quack doctor, or a man in crinoline, followed by a nigger holding an umbrella over his head, or a swell with pasteboard collars, and a chimney-pot on his head, pass from time to time and shout to the bystanders, but receive no answer. Give them a wide berth, for they are spies, and bad company. The one great amusement is pelting a black hat, the glossier the better.
The first thing to do was to let down my crinoline, for I could only walk like a crab in it when it was fastened up for riding, kilt up my linsey gown, take off my hat and jacket, and set to work The curtains must be drawn close, and the chairs moved out from their symmetrical positions against the wall; then I made an expedition into the kitchen, and won the heart of the stalwart cook, who was already frying chops over the fire, by saying in my best German, "I have come to help you with the tea."
I had taken off my crinoline, because Eleanor said we might have to climb some walls, and I had borrowed a pair of her boots, because my own were so uncomfortable from being high-heeled and narrow-soled. They were too thin for stony roads also, and, though they were prettily ornamented, they pinched my feet. We went upwards from the Vicarage along hot roads bordered by stone walls.
She was dressed in a costume of which crinoline, silk, and ribbons were component parts, contrasting sharply with the coarse garments of the peasant women. This village had recently sold a large quantity of wheat and rye to the government. It had the best church I had seen since leaving Nicolayevsk, and its general appearance was prosperous.
When Corinne tuned her lyre at the Capitol, when she knelt to be crowned with her laurel crown at the hands of a Roman senator, is it possible to conceive her swollen out with crinoline?
And I lived in a world of old lace and lavender, of crinoline and brocade. And then I discovered my uncle's books on gynecology and obstetrics ... full of guilty fevers I waited until he had gone out on a call and then slunk into his office to read.... One afternoon my doctor-uncle came suddenly upon me, taking me unaware. "Johnnie, what are you up to?" " was just reading your medical books."
"'Is mamma don't know as 'ow 'e's hout, I shouldn't vonder, said the cabman and away went Macassar, singing at the top of his voice as he sat in the cab 'The loveliest lady that ever was seen Is the lovely Lady Crinoline. "The cab passed through Covent Garden on its way. 'Stop at the pastry-cook's at the corner, said Macassar up through the little trap-door. The cab drew up suddenly.
These display considerable penetration; perhaps the following is fairly illustrative. To read your tales Is like opening a cedar-box Of ante-bellum days, A box holding the crinoline and fan And the tortoise-shell diary With flowers pressed between the leaves Belonging to some languid grande dame Of Creole New Orleans.
It was Sunday, and the population appeared in its best clothing, a few of the women sporting crinoline, and all wearing their best calicoes. Among the men there were Cossacks and soldiers in their grey coats or in plain cloth and sheepskin. I saw a few Yakuts with the narrow eyes of the Tunguze and their clothing of deerskin.
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