In deciding upon a costume for a fancy-dress ball, the first thought of the reveller should be to secure the becoming and the suitable, and to be successful the choice should be mainly influenced by his or her personality.
She would, indeed, have left at once if it had not been that she had issued invitations on a gigantic scale for a fancy-dress ball in honour of the anniversary.
He had not rushed away in pique after her refusal of him on the night of the fancy-dress ball; nor with any vague idea of causing her to regret her decision in realising the vacuum, in her existence which his absence might make.
Valentine Mott, who for many years was a resident of Paris, gave a fancy-dress ball in New York in honor of the Prince de Joinville, son of Louis Philippe.
She described a fancy-dress ball given by her while residing in the old Porter house on H Street, which must have been about 1848, as General Kearny had just returned from the Mexican War.
In 1849 she gave a fancy-dress ball but, as she had failed to revise her visiting list in many years, persons who had long been dead were among her invited guests.
Scott, for the last time at the old Elizabeth home, accompanied by my young daughter Maud, when the latter was invited to a fancy-dress ball given to children at the residence of General George Herbert Pegram.
At a fashionable party lately I was unable to pick out any two ladies out of a hundred whose dresses were cut alike, and the variety of colors suggested a fancy-dress ball.
Then we were accosted by two ladies of a committee that had the fancy-dress ball in hand.
On the Saturday evening following, the fancy-dress ball was to occur.
A series of concerts and lectures had been arranged for the voyage, and the fancy-dress ball was to close the first part of the journey--that is, at Aden.
They are going to have a fancy-dress ball on board, I believe, before we get to Aden.
Not for one moment was Mrs. Benstein deceived--by some magnetic process Lady Frobisher had been forced to be polite, and ask her to that fancy-dress ball.
We will say it is to be at a brilliant party--a fancy-dress ball, where gems may play a leading part.
Didn't you say something about a fancy-dress ball, Norah?
At the next fancy-dress ball I shall be invisible.
And I do so want to look nice at the fancy-dress ball.
I am looking forward tremendously to the fancy-dress ball at the Stenborgs' the day after tomorrow.
And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest.
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