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Updated: August 1, 2024
O'Flarety felt herself suddenly lifted to a position of importance. "Think of the purty Mrs. Hardy a wantin' my little Bridget," she exclaimed, and she began to dwell upon the romantic possibilities of her offspring's future under the care of such a "foine stylish lady and concluded by declaring it 'a lucky day entoirely."
He had the habit same as some other of the best card sharps I've met with of dressing himself in black, real stylish: wearing a long-tail coat and a boiled shirt and white tie, and having a toney wide-brimmed black felt hat that touched him off fine.
Fairford, a small incisive woman, with a big nose and good teeth revealed by frequent smiles. In her dowdy black and antiquated ornaments she was not what Undine would have called "stylish"; but she had a droll kind way which reminded the girl of her father's manner when he was not tired or worried about money.
"I've got some real lace to trim it with, whet dames give me in the early years of our engagement. Don't you think a black silk is allers nice, Ruth?" "Yes, it is, Aunty; and just now, it's very stylish." "You appear to know about such things. I guess I'll let you get it for me in the city when you buy the weddin' present.
So Herbert, who had something of the devil in him, approached his uncle once more, with a deceitful respect, and he was once more politely rebuffed as indeed he had half hoped to be. He then began his clandestine measures measures which culminated in him leaving the house one autumn morning dressed in a rather stylish travelling suit. The tramcar came down presently from Hanbridge.
The tailor to whom I had credentials, and who proved highly satisfactory to me, as he had proved to some of my countrymen and to Englishmen of high estate, had only one small sign, which was placed in one of his windows, and received his customers in a small room that would have made a closet for one of our stylish merchant tailors.
It has a stylish appearance, eh?" Mathieu then perceived a lofty modern pile, ornamented with balconies and sculpture work, which looked quite out of place among the poor little houses predominating in the district. "Why, it is a palace!" he exclaimed, in order to please Morange, who thereupon drew himself up quite proudly. "You will see the staircase, my dear fellow!
He had a high idea of his personal consequence, but he was also of the opinion that "fine feathers make fine birds," and his suit was of fine cloth and stylish make. "I wonder what the janitor will wear?" he said to himself, with a curl of the lip. "A pair of overalls, perhaps. They would be very appropriate, certainly." This was just the question which was occupying Luke's mind.
She had only four napoleons left in her purse, but she possessed some ornaments which she could sell: a practice so common in stylish society at German baths that there was no need to be ashamed of it; and even if she had not received her mamma's letter, she would probably have decided to get money for an Etruscan necklace which she happened not to have been wearing since her arrival; nay, she might have done so with an agreeable sense that she was living with some intensity and escaping humdrum.
You'd better believe aunt opened her eyes, when she saw me marching in as bold as brass, with two stylish young ladies; while, the moment I met her sly look, all my customary confusion over which I had contrived to hold a tight rein ran rampant and jerked at my self-possession until I lost control of it! "These young ladies, Aunt Jerusha," I stammered, "would like a glass of milk.
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