Her face and figure in its frilly frock photographed itself with such startling vividness upon his eyes, that if she had sunk through the floor he must still have seen her.
She went down at last, and found them both in the drawing-room already; Noel in a frillyevening frock, sitting by the fire with her chin on her hand, while her father was reading out the war news from the evening paper.
In the shade of the hood, with the frilly clothes, it seemed to him lying with its head downhill.
Lady Hamilton in a soft, frilly white négligée, was sipping her coffee and looking over her letters when Patty had interrupted the process.
You know you'll be looked upon as scarcely more than a schoolgirl, and you must wear simple, frilly muslins and broad-leafed hats.
Long, trailing, frillygowns of pink and blue chiffon, with swishing lace-ruffled petticoats, that just drag through the dirt of the streets.
But Elenore's dark hair was coiled low in the nape of her neck, and her manner was as feminine as was her distinctly smart and frilly pale blue chiffon frock.
Lovely frilly feminine garments, dainty slippers all buckle and heel, dear little everyday frocks and lingerie blouses, and gowns for occasions in the big trays beneath.
Cherry, sinking white andfrilly into a chair, smiled indulgently.
Her face and figure in its frilly frock, photographed itself with such startling vividness upon his eyes, that if she had sunk through the floor he must still have seen her.
Patty wore a white, lacy, frilly frock, with touches of pale yellow ribbon here and there.
She was in a soft, frilly white frock, with knots of pale blue ribbon here and there, the knots holding sprays of tiny pink rosebuds.
You look very well," Grandma said, nodding her head approvingly at the girls' frilly white dresses and King's correct clothes.
Really she looked more like a fairy, with her frilly white frock and her golden hair and blue eyes.
She lay propped up by pillows, draped about with a dainty, frilly dressing-sacque that looked too frivolous for Nurse Wright, yet could surely have come from no other source.
I'm glad you have got on one of those white, frilly things you used to wear.
Babe had as useless a trousseau, and as filled with extravagant pink-and-blue and lacy and frilly things as any daughter of doting parents.
At his request Gertie produced two pins from unexpected parts of her small frilly dress.
To-day the windows were open, the shutters folded; furniture was being moved in; and just inside the iron gate a frilly little girl was playing with a whitewashed conch-shell.
I shall always be just as I am in this black frock and this darling little frilly apron, and the cap that I really love myself in.
I smiled into the little affectionate rosy face that I was so accustomed to seeing under a white frilly cap with a black bow.
When Mrs. Patterson sent them out "for a whiff of fresh air," she thrust into her sister's hand a workbag with frillywhite things to tuck and ruffle.
I expect she'll have a beautiful lot offrilly frocks when you get home.
On her plate were three little frilly papers that had held sugary cakes, on her lips were fragments of sugar.
Maggie could not see her very clearly in the half-light, but there was something about her immobility and the stiffness of her head (decorated as of old with its frilly white cap) that reminded one of a figure made out of wax.
I'll try to take it, Miss Minerva, and if you hear that my exercises are growing too frilly for Tancredi's taste you'll know the reason why.
The small iron bed was hidden by a canopy of frillylace and a coverlet of transparent, delicate mull with an underslip of blue.
It wears the neatest little black dress with a frilly apron and deep frilly cuffs.
Their thoughts flew to the crowd--and to the girls in frilly dresses--under the pine trees in a certain canyon just where the Bear Paws reach lazily out to shake hands with the prairie land.
The satiny grey floor is half covered with exquisite rugs; and everywhere there are Oriental tables and chairs, and cushiony sofas and green hammocks with frilly pink pillows, and screens, and bowers of palms and bright azaleas.
I had already tucked the white bud, which had come to me on the dock like a dove with an olive branch, into the low neck of my frilly white muslin frock, and I gave it no rivals.
Miss Copeland wouldn't have a fluffy, frillyteacher in her school--and I don't blame her.
It's difficult enough to train fluffy, frilly girls to like simplicity, even if one's self is a model of plainness and repose.
I must say, Saint Peter's is getting frilly in its hoary age, and frills like that come dear.
And Katharine, really startled now, hurried across the floor to the corner where the frilly crib shielded the quiet sleeper from her gaze.
And Brenton, too tired to be really weary, never once left his chair beside the frilly crib.
