The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
If I make a bud grow out here, and another on the opposite side, and each fashions itself into a new polype, the practical effect will be that before long you will see a single polype converted into a sort of tree or bush of polypes.
We know that the phenomena of vitality are not something apart from other physical phenomena, but one with them; and matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.
And that was how Fashions came to be started in the Bush.
The hats were rather silly, because the Piccaninnies lived so deep in the Bush that the sun couldn't hurt them, but then fashions are absurd.
And when the hills are full, And newerfashions blow, Doth not retract a single spice For pang of jealousy.
And though I may not guess the kind Correctly, yet to me A piercing comfort it affords In passing Calvary, To note the fashions of the cross, Of those that stand alone, Still fascinated to presume That some are like my own.
The native of India weaves and fashionsthe cloth of his cloak of love out of many colours.
And all, from the sweeper to the highest of birth and caste, wear this wondrous garment in India, though not one out of the teeming millions fashions his cloak upon the pattern of his neighbour's.
So is it with the objects of the senses, and the ways and fashions of the world around us; even as with the beat of our own hearts, which we notice only in moments of fear and perturbation.
In the long result not only does their traditional fear of foreigners pass away, but Asiatic fashions actually come into vogue among cultured Egyptians.
Then he proceeds to make the heavenly bodies, and arranges them in an immutable order; he stocks the earth with plants and animals, and has man made by the goddess Arura, who fashions him out of the dust of the earth.
Through what whimsical vagaries have the fashions changed?
When young Peter came back to Rougham, I dare say he brought back with him some new airs and graces from Italy, and I dare say the new fashions made his neighbours open their eyes.
But the fashions of savages are far more permanent than ours; and whenever their bodies are artificially modified this is necessarily the case.
As with savages the same fashions prevail for long periods,[421] mutilations, from whatever cause first made, soon come to be valued as distinctive marks.
In the fashions of our own dress we see exactly the same principle and the same desire to carry every point to an extreme; we exhibit, also, the same spirit of emulation.
And yet, even to-day, when tastes have changed and fashions altered, the exuberance of their eloquence is hard to withstand, and in reading them we sometimes almost believe that we are touched when in reality we are merely dazzled.
Their older brothers and sisters are often servants in the homes of the wealthy creoles, where they learn the ways and fashions of the white people and try to copy them.
The mothers of the little creoles dress in dainty lawns and laces, following the latest fashions from Paris.
Every one chooses his love from the ranks of beauty according to his character, and this he makes his god, and fashions and adorns as a sort of image which he is to fall down and worship.
Girls who aped the fashions of the dazzling creatures they saw stepping from limousines.
Kate O'Malley, who has been at Bascom's for so many years that she is rumored to have stock in the company, may be said to govern the fashions of our town.
Out-Heroding the preposterousfashions of the times.
So evanescent are thefashions of the world in these particulars.
Fashions come and fashions go, but never is she bothered.
But while fashions in dress have changed, the child's nature is about the same in every country and period.
It is a curious change in fashions which transfers any part of a little girl's wardrobe to that of a grown man.
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