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Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic-arch intersections. "Rich maidens, again, flit abroad in gowns scolloped out behind and before, so that back and breast are almost bare. Wives of quality, on the other hand, have train-gowns four or five ells in length; which trains there are boys to carry. Brave Cleopatras, sailing in their silk-cloth Galley, with a Cupid for steersman!
The column, goin' like a railroad train, had cut a gully in the hard snow full ten feet deep, the sides as clean cut as though done with a knife, or rather with a scoop, because the edge was slightly scolloped all the way along." "How did you get across?" "Axes," was the brief reply. "We cut through the snow crust and beat down a steep path on both sides of the gully an' made the dogs take it.
Mr. Steyne came in as we were at the oysters. He kissed his daughter with that tender affection which is more characteristic, I think, of English parents than those of any other nation. Mr. Steyne had dined, but he nevertheless ate a hundred scolloped oysters, in the preparation of which my cook was wonderfully expert; he also honoured the champagne with equal attention.
Ignorant nursery maids, perhaps, taught them morals and manners, while the father toiled to accumulate the means for supplying their external wants, and the mother hemmed ruffles and scolloped trimming to make people say, "How sweetly those children are dressed!" as the maid paraded them through the streets, teaching them their first lessons in vulgar vanity.
She is more ample and serene, more seated at her door, than all the copyists have told us, with her domes and scrolls, her scolloped buttresses and statues forming a pompous crown, and her wide steps disposed on the ground like the train of a robe.
Martha, little woman that she was, was overjoyed at seeing them and knowing Mr. Guy would soon be well. "You did not get your Christmas present, dear child," said Ruth; "whenever brother Guy wakens you may go up for it; it is in the top drawer of my bureau wrapped up in white paper." "Miss Agnes gave me two white aprons, all scolloped round," said Martha, with a beaming face.
So she could not go a-hawking, neither could she shoot with the bow, and her attendants the women, bound about the middle and spreading out above and below like bolsters, and the men, who wore their immense scolloped hats falling over their ears even at meal-times excited disgust and derision by the noises they made when they ate. The Master Viridus had Katharine Howard in his keeping.
Soon a vast mountain covered with pine forest rose into the sky ahead and two hours of unbroken climbing brought me only to the rim of another great wooded valley scolloped out of the earth and down into which I went all but headfirst into the town of Copan.
"What should I have? A pig which you shall not taste, is in it." "Of course. Has not the pig scolloped ears?" "Suppose it has?" "You speak lightly. Let me look at the pig." "Well look then go blind. Have you never seen such an animal? Have a look at it." The gypsy woman uncovered the basket, in which lay the unhappy victim, reposing on its stomach, its scolloped ears still standing up straight.
This lasts till three, when the carriage again appears, and the lady and her basket return home; she mounts to her chamber, carefully sets aside her bonnet and its appurtenances, puts on her scolloped black silk apron, walks into the kitchen to see that all is right, then into the parlour, where, having cast a careful glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse.
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