The three coats she wanted were splendid things; each one would take almost all her money, leave nothing for frocksand hats.
Money to spend upon herself, upon frocks and furs and entertainment.
The coated men had the advantage as runners, and Fred covered their retreat by getting in front of the smock-frocks and charging them suddenly enough to throw their chase into confusion.
An' I presses her frocks an' sometimes I makes out to laundry fer her in some places whar we visits an' the missus don't see fit ter put Miss Ann's siled clothes along with the fambly wash.
In the wardrobe there hung an old hunting suit of Jeff's and several dancing frocks belonging to Mildred and Nan, that had been temporarily discarded to await future going over by the seamstress.
Trot out your frocks and I'll tell you what to put on.
The buying and making of the new frocks and muslin furbelows seemed almost to absorb my mother's mind, and she was fain to delegate to me the duty of finding a musical governess for Miss Lester.
She had grown during the homeward voyage; her frocks were too short, her boots were too small, her bonnets tumbled off her head and hung forlornly at the back of her neck.
Even if the young ones' frocks were home again, it would be ten to one against their coming to school.
His little girls were with him, one in either hand, in their clean cotton frocks and pinafores and straw hats.
Her frocks were more dainty and becoming, and Patty had persuaded her to wear less jewellery and ornamentation.
One of Patty's prettiest evening frocks was a dainty French thing of white chiffon, decked with pale green ribbons and exquisite artificial apple blossoms made of satin.
It was a smart suit with lines unfamiliar to the dragging yellow and pink frocks of the town.
I'd demand all I could get--whether I finally settled down to designing frocks or building temples or pressing pants.
However, old frocks were trimmed, and new bonnets made, and the young ladies looked as well as could possibly have been expected of them.
I've been buying frocks in Paris, and sitting in the sunshine at Cannes, and looking over the side of a yacht at the blue Mediterranean, and just spending, spending .
The girls all came in their pretty soft white frocksand looked sweet.
Rustics in smock-frocks began to hang about the road opposite the house, or lean against trees, looking idly at the windows and chimneys.
He sings of pretty puckers and pliant pleats, and is eloquent on frills, frocks and chemisettes.
I haven't hardly got the strength to stand and wash my own few things, and I'm much too bad to be starching and ironing frocks every few days.
Mona, haven't you got any print frocksfor mornings, and nice aprons?
There's one of your very old frocks upstairs, hanging behind the door in your own room.
After that they told her of the new summer frocks they were to have, and the conversation grew so interesting and absorbing, they forgot everything else until the church clock struck two!
She knew that probably her new dresses, at least the material for them, would be bought here, and she was counting more on the new frocks than even Uncle Dick knew.
For a couple of days the sewing machine whirred from morning to night as the village dressmaker sewed and fitted the new frocks and made the old presentable.
Mademoiselle will help you to purchase these," she said, "and you can have all your school frocks nicely washed and done up in the school laundry.
Don't you suppose that you want any cotton frocks for the seaside?
The pink muslin frocks were also made to suit each girl.
I think I can promise that if you do this you will both have rather pretty frocks at the seaside, and that Nina shall have her flounces.
Yes, I thought so--and there were no linings of any kind got; for dear Brenda said that we could use up some of the frocks we had outgrown, for that purpose.
My little shoes were generally thick with mud, and my little frocks ready every night for the wash-tub.
Twould better become thee to prattle of frocks and fixings for my Lady Penwick.
He may even eschew plaid frocks and don modish garments--that would hide bandy-legs still less!
How soon shall I have fine frocks and jewels and--a beau like yonder one on the stairway?
The girls are to be bridesmaids in white frocks with fur.
The same dusk that turned the begonias velvety-black in their beds made luminous the pale hydrangeas, until they resembled the glimmering whites and mauves of the frocks that moved in and out among them.
You know father says you can have whichever of those frocks you like.
In a day she seemed to have outgrown them, to have lengthened her mind as she lengthened her frocks--if young women do lengthen their frocks nowadays.
I remember, I remember, Old times at Otterbourne, Before the building of the Church, And when smock frockswere worn!
The little girls in the aisle had the like big coarse straw bonnets, with a strip of glazed calico hemmed and crossed over for strings, round tippets, and straight print frocks down to their feet.
Angela would have played the better into his hands, by the shrill claim she would have made upon Helen with a chatter of frocks and a running hither and thither.
The frocks were for his two little sisters; and Mrs. Martin added an old gown of her own, for his mother.
I am so glad that I did not buy a new dress, instead of the frocks for the poor children.
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