Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
She wore corsets; she had silk, or handsome woollen and cotton dresses, according to the season, expensive neckerchiefs, embroidered caps and collars, lace ruffles at her throat, boots instead of shoes, and, altogether, adopted a richness and elegance of apparel which renewed the youthfulness of her appearance.
Here are two or three of the questions, put, it will be remembered, without notice, to a youth a little over twenty, confronted by a number of solemn divines in white neckerchiefs. "Will you explain the mode in which you conceive the sacred writers to have been influenced?" "Do you believe a statement because it is in the Bible, or merely because it is true?"
Any one who beheld these female statesmen performing on the stage of Scipio and Cato and saw at their side the young fop as with smooth chin, delicate voice, and mincing gait, with headdress and neckerchiefs, frilled robe, and women's sandals he copied the loose courtesan might well have a horror of the unnatural world, in which the sexes seemed as though they wished to change parts.
Then the general dealer took her by the arm, and right down into the shop they both went together. She might take what she would, said he, both of kirtles and neckerchiefs and other finery, so that she might dress and go in and out as if she were mother herself; and she might provide herself with beads and silk as much as she liked. There was nothing that she might not have.
The rear was brought up by a crush of carriages and carts, raising clouds of dust in their efforts to overtake the horses in front, adorned with green branches and crammed with merry holiday-folks with bright, streaming neckerchiefs. At that moment the report of a mortar announces that the prime patron of the festivities, the rich nabob, Master Jock, has departed from his castle.
When he came home for the holidays, he brought with him an unmistakable swagger and a supply of coloured neckerchiefs. On his first visit to Uplands he called Virginia "my pretty child," and said "Good day, little lady," to Betty. He carried himself like an Indian, as the Governor put it, and he was very lithe and muscular, though he did not measure up to Champe by half a head.
It tells this book compiled largely from correspondence of persons well known to you and me of the first "eight-days' crawl" that conveyed the chaffing, chafing command up through Mississippi, across East Tennessee into southeast Virginia and so on through Lynchburg to lovely Richmond; tells how never a house was passed in town or country but handkerchiefs, neckerchiefs, snatched-off sunbonnets, and Confederate flags wafted them on.
She wore corsets; she had silk, or handsome woollen and cotton dresses, according to the season, expensive neckerchiefs, embroidered caps and collars, lace ruffles at her throat, boots instead of shoes, and, altogether, adopted a richness and elegance of apparel which renewed the youthfulness of her appearance.
She had assisted at the arrangement of the contents of the travelling trunk in wardrobe and bureau, and this might have helped her a little. "A soft black silk, and a grey poplin, and such lovely neckerchiefs and handkerchiefs of lawn is not little Emily a darling to make her mother look so nice? And such a beauty of a shawl! that's the one Sandy brought."
For the rest their costumes were the undistinguished chaps, spurs, shirt, neckerchiefs, and gauntlets of the range. With one distinction, however: these were better armed than the average cow-puncher jaunting to town for the quarterly spree. Revolver butts peeped from the holsters of their loosely hung cartridge belts.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking