Or shall Santa Claus sweetly capture both for you, one for state dress and splendor, one for days less rigorous, not of purple velvets and flowered brocades, but summer draperies of soft lace?
Diedrich Knickerbocker, in his cocked hat and flowered coat, had heard of Japan, perhaps, as a romance of Prester John.
About him lay this whole spread being of the flowered Caucasus, huge and quiet, drinking in the sunshine at its leisure.
Great pictures of it haunt the background of my mind, pictures that lie in early mists, framed by the stars and glimmering through some golden, flowered dawn.
The blades resembled that of a long, keen poniard of Damascus steel; the handles of ebony, covered with flowered gold, and sheaths richly ornamented with the same metal; they are used in the execution of criminals.
The brakeman seemed relieved, and smiled as he tried to put part of his burden into the rack overhead; but even the flowered carpet-bag was much too large, and he explained that he would take care of everything at the end of the car.
Then they appeared in a beautifully-flowered robe.
Wearing an incongruous flowered dressing gown tied at the waist with a silken cord, he turned to the visitor.
I arrayed myself in a dressing-gown of large-flowered pattern, which lent me a very Pharaonic aspect, hurriedly put on a pair of Turkish slippers, and informed the Princess Hermonthis that I was ready to follow her.
And it must be agreed that a sort of beauty flowered in the dark Marceline and that the white Marcelle grew almost ugly.
The matrons brought their stiff robes of red and yellow satin, the girls as many flowered silks and lawns, mantillas and rebosos, as the family carretas would hold.
The girls, in their flowered muslins and bright rebosos, the men in gay serapes and embroidered botas, looked a fine mass of color as they galloped down to the beach and laughed and chattered as youth must on so glorious a morning.
In the summer of 1794, towards the end of July, the Gnaphalium here figured, the most magnificent and shewy of all the species hitherto introduced to this country, flowered in great perfection at Messrs.
Farther back in the border is a group of the scarlet-flowered Dahlia Fire King, and behind these, Dahlias Lady Ardilaun and Cochineal, of deeper scarlet colouring.
Edwyn Arkwright, who by his happy discovery of a white-flowered Iris stylosa, the only one that has been found wild, has enriched our gardens with a most lovely variety of this excellent plant.
It is the parent of the well-known Guelder-Rose, which is merely its double-flowered form.
It is followed by the other of the most useful tall, yellow-flowered kinds, V.
A lady visitor last year told me with some pride that she had a most wonderful Rhododendron in bloom; all the flower in the middle was crimson, with a ring of purple-flowered branches outside.
I do not have many Michaelmas Daisies in the flower border, only some early ones that flower within September; of these there are the white-flowered A.
It is a good plan, when they are in beds or large groups, to plant the dark-flowered Wallflowers among them, their colour making a rich harmony with the reds of the young Paeony growths.
What rich flowered satin curtains--they must have cost twelve or fourteen shillings a-yard at least!
Then cover it with chintz or cretonne or flowered paper or holly paper.
Artists possess the talent of giving them such a resemblance to striped and flowered silks and cottons, that one is apt to be deceived by them on the first view.
It flowered the whole summer through, and had often flowers and ripe seed at the same time; which is the case also with our artichoke plants.
There were two species of it, one of which flowered in spring, and the other in autumn.
Yet, if he were in very truth a prince--she thought of his debut in flowered waistcoat, panama hat, and enamelled boots!
She had on the flowered organdie of palest yellow.
Joan wished she had on the newflowered organdie Mother had made for her.
The flowered organdy dress that Eleanor had given Sary to wear for the great occasion of receiving a caller, was much too small for the buxom widow, and she was in great distress about it.
How funny it seemed that the small red-flowered squares Sary had been accustomed to when company came were nowhere in evidence.
As we went out the door, she saw a bassinet, all fine whiteness and flowered blue and lace edging.
There was a big bed with a kind of a flowered umbrella over it with lace hanging down; and a little low dressing table, all white and glass, and my own bath showed through the open door.
I had made some flowered paper shades for the lights.
At this instant a gondolier in a flowered jacket entered the vestibule.
Truly that decency hath not been overlooked; one in a floweredjacket guides the boat.
