By the time the calico arrives in Shanghai, the gold price of silver has dropped, we will suppose, to 20d.
Her long coal-black hair was soon adjusted in a simple knot, the calico dress belted tight to her slender waist, and her little feet concealed in their gaudily ornamented moccasins.
A checquered mat covered the floor, and all the furniture was encased in striped calico covers, and the lamps, mirrors, etc.
The hired man sprang out, and with some show of awkward gallantry, lifted a young girl in a pretty pink calico and a cottage bonnet, down from the front seat.
He saw the ringlet of soft golden hair, the large blue eyes, the little dimpled shoulder peeping out from its calico dress; he reached forth his hands to press them down upon these pretty shoulders, for the vision was palpable as life.
The pink hood, faded with much washing, shaded her eyes; her hands were folded beneath the little plaid shawl that half concealed her cheap calico dress.
The dress hung in rents and festoons of dirty and faded calico around her gaunt limbs, trailing the stone floor on one side, and lifted high above her clumsy ankles on the other.
Sharley looked well, waiting there in the calico and lace upon the doorstep.
She put away the barbe and the pink muslin, locked her ribbon-box into the lower drawer, gave up crimping her hair, and wore the chocolate calico all day.
She had no time to spend upon herself, and, rather than keep a hungry traveller waiting, smoothed her hair, knotted a ribbon at the collar, and came down in her calico dress.
It is not everybody who would look well in calico and lace; yet if you were to ask me, I could not tell you how pretty Sharley is, or if she is pretty at all.
To attempt to explain how a piece of calico is made without the aid of woodcuts, would be very unsatisfactory.
This donation came most seasonably, as we had been mentioning repeatedly the need of calico and print in our prayers; and the sewing cotton and the pair of boots came at once into use.
And on the counter were the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick, besides a Jumping Jack.
Well, I must hurry along and give this grass to the pony," said the gardener, after he had seen Calico catch his tail.
I wonder how the Calico Clown is getting along," said the Candy Rabbit to the Sawdust Doll on one of the days when they were together.
The Calico Clown, the Monkey on a Stick and the other friends you speak of are there.
I wish the Sawdust Doll or the Bold Tin Soldier or the Calico Clown were here.
I wish I had time to say good-bye to my new friends on the Easter counter, and to the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick.
And, mind you, I'm not saying that the Calico Clown or the Monkey on a Stick pushed the rubber ball off the toy counter so that it rolled over in time for the Candy Rabbit to fall on it.
A little while ago I was on the toy counter of this store with the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick.
The Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick will think it quite wonderful when I tell them what has happened to me," said the Candy Rabbit to himself, as he sat there, drying.
Yesterday I was on the toy counter, with the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick, and to-day I seem to be in Fairyland.
But how did I get here, and where are the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick?
I do wish I could see the Calico Clown and the Monkey on a Stick once more," sighed the Sawdust Doll.
Katherine, who was measuring calico as rapidly, and with as much dexterity, as if she had served an apprenticeship behind a drapery counter, instead of having been trained for teaching.
It is fine to be able to help other people," she replied, cutting the next piece of calico to avoid making so much noise.
The calico looked very like long black hair, especially when the strips began to curl up a bit.
Of course none of the children happened to have long black hair, but there was a lot of black calico that had been bought to cover school-books with.
But they had only, so to speak, scalped them of the black calico ringlets!
A pile of calico was heaped in wild masses like avalanches in one corner, rapidly diminishing under the measurements of Gilbert, who looked as if he took thorough good-natured delight in the frolic.
One of Mrs. Dusautoy's hints as to Bayford tradesmen had been overruled, and goods had been ordered from a house in London, after Albinia and Lucy had made an incredible agitation over their patterns of calico and flannel.
She has two dresses--a loose calico wrapper for home wear, and a black silk for "meetin'.
Our calico skirts and sacks made a creditable appearance.
Two calico bags, one big and one little, contained our baggage for the journey.
The "ruffled pawn" was a calico or linen valance which was hung on the edge of the mantel-shelf, a pretty and cheerful fashion seen in some English as well as Dutch homes.
These were covered with the bits of calico with the edges turned under; the sides were sewed carefully together over and over, till a firm expanse permitted the removal of the papers.
Matrons in calico frocks and sunbonnets walked side by side with their daughters in white muslin and pink sashes, with gala hats on their young heads.
She wore a gray calico slip, tied in around the waist with her apron strings; both were ragged, abominably soiled.
Tim, step up to the store and telephone to Dry Pond and Calico Valley and see how the election is going.
They went out with pink calico sun-bonnets, and ain't likely to come in again yet awhile, I tell you!
In our great calico mills, printing hundreds of yards per minute, the mechanics and the chemistry differ only in detail of application and in dispatch, not in fundamental principle.
In this simple manner has the printing of calico been done for centuries for the garments of millions of children.
The printing of this calico by the very ancient, simple yet effective method we witnessed in the farm village along the canal seen in Fig.
He was now sitting in a helpless condition by the side window, with one of his sister's purple calico aprons pinned close about his neck.
Mrs. Connelly had gone to her front door; the hem of her calico dress could be plainly seen, and the bulge of her apron, and she was watching the stranger quite out of sight.
I had cried--blubbered away as though I were a red-cheeked little girl in a clean calico petticoat.
The brown calico frock, and the little school bonnet, with its blue veil, have been put away forever.
One morning, the brown calico frock was changed for an India silk, and the little school bonnet, with its blue veil, for a new one, covered with artificials.
But I'll tell you one thing, Amos, if calico is the cheapest and best thing a woman can wear, I am going to have enough of it after this.
Pretty little Mrs. Garnet had finished her work for the day, donned a fresh calico that fitted her plump form without a wrinkle, and sat crooning a soft lullaby to that objectionable baby, when they entered.
For instance, I dress poorer than any woman in the place; Amos even limits the number of calico dresses that I have; I get three a year, and one I have to put away to sort o' slick up in.
