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She was deep in her first sleep when her consciousness struggled toward an unaccustomed sound. She awoke suddenly at the last, and became aware of a low, continuous, but peremptory knocking. She lit a candle at once and opened the door. Miss Trumbull stood there, her large bony face surrounded by curl-papers that stood out like horns, and an extremely disagreeable expression on her mouth.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slipshod and in curl-papers all day. O Vanity Fair Vanity Fair!
But he lived to see the silent echoes resound to the shrill whistle of the engine, and luxury with its still but mighty sway enervate the sons and daughters of the pioneers, until the one quailed at the sight of danger and the other dosed away the morning in kid slippers and curl-papers. Time claimed its own, and he died; and then his son, the Mr.
Pickwick and the lady in yellow curl-papers; but the absence of that innocence which heightens Mr. Pickwick's distresses was welcome to admirers of what Lady Mary Wortley Montagu calls "gay reading." She wrote from abroad, in 1752, "There is something humorous in R. Random, that makes me believe that the author is H. Fielding" her kinsman. Her ladyship did her cousin little justice.
It would be as difficult for her to do without me as to do without her powder or her curl-papers. I am for her an indispensable, integral part of her boudoir." Samoylenko was embarrassed. "You are out of humour to-day, Vanya," he said. "You must have had a bad night." "Yes, I slept badly. . . . Altogether, I feel horribly out of sorts, brother.
'Not I, retorted Miss Twexby, tossing her curl-papers; 'I've been attending to par's business; but, oh, gracious! with a sudden recollection of her head-gear, 'you've seen me in undress. 'And you look more charming than ever, finished Vandeloup, as he took his bedroom candle from her. 'I will see you in the morning. My friend still asleep, I suppose? 'I'm sure I don't know.
Snagsby, sitting up with her head in a perfect beehive of curl-papers and night-cap, who has dispatched Guster to the police-station with official intelligence of her husband's being made away with, and who within the last two hours has passed through every stage of swooning with the greatest decorum. But as the little woman feelingly says, many thanks she gets for it! Esther's Narrative
Meanwhile the chambermaid had laced her up, and then thrown a dressing-sack over the young lady’s shoulders: after crimping her hair with a hot iron they proceeded to take off the curl-papers; her locks, since they were rather short, they made into two braids, leaving the hair smooth on the brow and temples.
I wouldn't want more than this for myself, if bank-notes were as plenty as curl-papers." "Nobody has any curl-papers now, papa," said Lucy. "But I can't bear to be outdone," said Mr Toogood. "I think it's very unpleasant, people living in that sort of way. It's all very well telling me that I needn't live so too; and of course I don't.
The want of fresh linen was so pressing, that the sick must not be kept waiting, though it was Sunday. Miss Nares and Miss Flint were in curl-papers, plying their needles. They had been up all night, and were now putting the last stitches to a suit of family mourning, which was to enable the bereaved to attend afternoon church.
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