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Updated: June 17, 2025
'Seventeen, the 22nd of last June. 'Well, have it your own way. Seventeen, if you like to call her so! said Miss Browning, impatiently. 'The fact is still the same she's got a lover; and it seems to me she was in long-clothes only yesterday. 'I'm sure I hope her course of true love will run smooth, said Miss Phoebe. Now Mr.
Coxe's calf-love, Miss Browning held up her hands in surprise. 'To think of Molly, as I have held in long-clothes, coming to have a lover! Well, to be sure! Molly Gibson has got a lover! One may almost say she's had an offer! Mr. Gibson, may not one? and she's but sixteen! 'Seventeen, sister, said Miss Phoebe, who piqued herself on knowing all about dear Mr. Gibson's domestic affairs.
It is true that all babies look alike to me; but I should have known that this child was male, the conformation of the skull alone should have told me that. It was its dress that gave me cause to hesitate. It was dressed absurdly, not in "long-clothes," but in a long frock that hid its feet and was bunched about its body.
Luther's devil is the outgrowth of humanity in long-clothes.
He dressed Flavia out to kill, as he said, in lace hoods and embroidered long-clothes, for which he tossed over half the ready-made stock of the great dry-goods stores; and he made Marcia get herself a new suit throughout, with a bonnet to match, which she thought she could not afford, but he said he should manage it somehow.
I envy you the good news you are going to carry to your friends and, Miss Newcome, as I am an old old gentleman who have known your family these sixty years, and saw your father in his long-clothes, may I tell you how heartily and sincerely I I love and respect you, my dear? When should you wish Mr. Clive Newcome to have his legacy?" "I think I should like Mr.
The lantern jaws, the thin and lithe body, the dry face on which there has been no tint of the rose since the baby's long-clothes were first abandoned, the harsh, thick hair, the thin lips, the intelligent eyes, the sharp voice with the nasal twang not altogether harsh, though sharp and nasal all these traits are supposed to belong especially to the Yankee.
"Well but I must get something to do, or I shall go back home again. I'm not going to go idling about here while you work." "But you can surely rest and enjoy a little comfort in your old days, father. However, we shall soon see." "I can rest, can I? I had better lie on my back and let myself be fed like a long-clothes child! Only I don't believe my back would stand it!"
"Well but I must get something to do, or I shall go back home again. I'm not going to go idling about here while you work." "But you can surely rest and enjoy a little comfort in your old days, father. However, we shall soon see." "I can rest, can I? I had better lie on my back and let myself be fed like a long-clothes child! Only I don't believe my back would stand it!"
The study of French models was perhaps the best thing for German literature before it got out of long-clothes. It was bad only when it became a tradition and a tyranny. Lessing did more than any other man to overthrow this foreign usurpation when it had done its work. The same battle had to be fought on English soil also, and indeed is hardly over yet.
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