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Updated: October 29, 2025
As she put on her black velveteen skirt and best crimson crepe blouse, she pledged herself to a wary refinement, laid the weight of it on her spirit. The only models she had to follow were the leading ladies of the road companies she had seen, and she impressed upon her mind details of manner from the heroines of "East Lynne" and "The Banker's Daughter."
Then my blankets and trappings were of velvet, studded with real precious stones. Now they are velveteen with glass to imitate the precious jewels. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! That I should ever live to see this day." Here the elephant's conversation was cut short by someone screaming, "Fire, fire!"
Yet another variety called raised velvet is made by having loops of different lengths so arranged as to form a pattern. Sometimes, too, we see figures of velvet woven into backgrounds of satin. I am sure I need not tell you the name for that sort of goods." "Brocade!" Marie cried. "Quite right!" nodded the priest. "And velveteen, like my trousers, Father what about that?" questioned Pierre.
Molly was vastly amused and interested in her neighbor and her evident rivalry with the long-haired cubist, whom she now saw daintily picking his way across the court, in velveteen jacket and Byronic collar with the loose flowing tie common in the Latin Quarter.
And, as the painter had wanted something dark by way of contrast in the foreground, he had contented himself with seating there a gentleman, dressed in a black velveteen jacket. This gentleman had his back turned and the only part of his flesh that one saw was his left hand, with which he was supporting himself on the grass.
And she came close to the little Rabbit and gathered him up in her arms and kissed him on his velveteen nose that was all damp from crying. "Little Rabbit," she said, "don't you know who I am?" The Rabbit looked up at her, and it seemed to him that he had seen her face before, but he couldn't think where. "I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said.
Latterly he wore a velveteen jacket of a golden-brown colour in this apartment that I think over-emphasised its esthetic intention, and he also added some gross Chinese bronzes. He was, on the whole, a very happy man throughout all that wildly enterprising time. He made and, as I shall tell in its place, spent great sums of money.
'Admirable! he remarked; 'my grey velveteen trousers! This will exactly meet your necessities. 'Give them to me! she cried fiercely; but as soon as she had them in her hands her mood appeared to alter she stood silent for a moment, and then pressed the garment back upon the Doctor. 'Give it to Aline, she said 'poor girl. 'Nonsense! said the Doctor. 'Aline does not know what she is about.
I said it just so. I see that you observe faithfulness. That's very noble on your part. Let's go, then." She led him into the cabinet, and, opening the inner bolt of the shutter, threw it wide open. The daylight softly and sadly splashed against the red and gold walls, over the candelabra, over the soft red velveteen furniture. "Right here it began," reflected Lichonin with sad regret.
They quicken their pace when they get into the churchyard, for already they see the field thronged with country folk; the men in clean, white smocks or velveteen or fustian coats, with rough plush waistcoats of many colours, and the women in the beautiful, long scarlet cloak the usual out-door dress of west-country women in those days, and which often descended in families from mother to daughter or in new-fashioned stuff shawls, which, if they would but believe it, don't become them half so well.
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