A bit of finery would make Rosie happy for a week.
It had been my mother's trunk, and this was the first journey it had made since it carried her bridal finery to and from the Philadelphia Centennial.
She usually buys all her cheap finery at a cheap store, and such style and taste as she displays is "ready made.
I hurried back with my bucket of water, hoping in my heart that the pleasure their wearers got out of this finery might be as great as the day's work which earned it was long and hard.
The means of conveyance were wanting half a century since, and few people risk finery of any sort on corduroys.
As usual, tedious lists of the finery worn on the occasion are given by Hall, and copied by Miss Strickland.
Exploding Eggs in his new finery and the visiting chief from Vait-hua found welcome among the waiting natives, while Titihuti of the tattooed legs took her seat beside me.
Their pretensions were all self-pretensions, their finery was all paid for by themselves and not granted to them by others.
She had not taste herself for the sort of finery which converted Barleystubb farm into Rosebank, and which had occasionally graced Mr Lookaloft's letters with the dignity of esquirehood.
After all," I said, "I think this custom of loading down a woman with finery just at her marriage hour, is giving it when she is least able to appreciate it.
In fact, woman's finery never looks to another woman as it does to a man.
Southey in the preface to Joan of Arc, speaking of Homer, says: "Pope has disguised him in fop-finery and Cowper has stripped him naked.
When I saw what a prodigious quantity of work you had put into the finery I was quite ashamed of my unreasonable request, I will never serve you so again, but I do dearly love worked muslin.
Naomie would be as silly as that," she pondered, silently, reflecting that the same sort of whims in dress and finery had been a real part of Naomie Blair's young girlhood.
Into the drawer Nora was placing such an outlay offinery as any young bride might have boasted of.
She would have given much to be free of the fineryand garbed again in her own simple clothes.
All her old love of finery was, for the time, lost in the joy of feeling "in place" instead of "out of place.
There was no attempt at entertainment or finery of any kind, except that Mme.
This expl'ite of Neb's will set the niggers up in the world; and it wouldn't surprise me if it cost you a suit of finery all round.
We had a great deal of shopping to do, as our little bride had put off buying most of her finery till this time, on account of the few weeks between the fixing of her marriage-day and its arrival.
David had seen her in finery before, but never in such fineryas now.
Vona ran down the street as she was, bareheaded, the ribbons of her stagefinery fluttering.
She admired myfinery greatly, and told me that I looked all a man should look.
We may be safe here for a few minutes longer, for when Emily is talking about finery she is forgetful of all else, but I must not leave here.
It was a brave sight to those accustomed to the barbaric finery and wild sports of the Indian, but fearful and hideous to one unused to the rude painted visages and half naked forms of the warriors.
I made up my mind to swallow a hasty dinner, invade the cellar and carry my poor little finery upstairs after dinner, so as to be ready for Bob at eight.
The eight New Yorkers repacked their finery and returned home, absolutely turned down like the merest social adventurers by men who wouldn't break a rule in order to be courteous.
She stood regarding her wedding finerywith some feeling of disgust.
Meanwhile, I'll go to a bedroom and get some of this finery off.
The bridegroom stood irresolute by the altar, feeling nervously at his gloves, whilst Beatrice, with all her wedding finery about her, clutched Mark by the arm and hurried him down the aisle.
He wore black and silver, the hilt of his long sword was jewelled, the Order of the Holy Ghost glittered on his breast; and this fine array seemed to render more shabby the pretentious finery of the third-rate adventurers before him.
