Put on a dressing-gown and go down to the matron's room.
We watched Burgess coming out of Cloisters and through the Archway, struggling with gown and hood, stole and surplice, all rolled into a tubular bundle and flung over one shoulder like a military overcoat.
Leaving the book on the table, he unslung his gown from his shoulder, pulled it over his cassock and sank into the great carved chair of Ockley in the middle of the Monitorial Council, facing the school.
Burgess struggled out of his gown and threw it over one shoulder.
I smiled but soon grew sober as I thought that the incongruity between gown and shoes was no greater than that between the gown and the girl--the girl who was reared to wear plain clothes and be honest and unpretentious.
The Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln were first sent to him to argue, threaten, and persuade, and, when they thought him sufficiently prepared, led him in a plain black gown to make his formal renunciation.
The gown that I wore after dinner was of crimson and gold watered silk, with my jewelled cap on my head, and the rope of pearls with the Marone as a pendant.
Never before had she felt that she was poor, or that she wanted more than the simple gown and the limp sun-bonnet making up her attire.
The faded sun-bonnet was not; her black hair was coiled high, while at white brow and glowing cheek silken curls wantoned in an artful disorder, moreover her simple russet gown had given place to a rich, flowered satin.
There is the gown you had for my wedding," suggested Mrs. Winstanley, blushing.
Very much the same kind of gown she had on that day at the kennels, Rorie thought, remembering how she looked as she stood with quickened breath and tumbled hair, encircled by those eager boisterous hounds.
Her cheeks were flushed crimson, her eyes glittered, her little white hands thrust out from the sleeves of her dressinggown were playing with the quilt, twisting it about.
And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom.
Chapter 27 Anna was upstairs, standing before the looking glass, and, with Annushka's assistance, pinning the last ribbon on her gownwhen she heard carriage wheels crunching the gravel at the entrance.
Anna was already dressed in a low-necked gown of light silk and velvet that she had had made in Paris, and with costly white lace on her head, framing her face, and particularly becoming, showing up her dazzling beauty.
He turned to Matvey and threw off his dressing-gown decisively.
On meeting Betsy coming towards her in a white gown that struck her by its elegance, Anna smiled at her just as she always did.
In her white dressing gown her figure seemed more than usually grand and broad.
The smart maid, who came in to offer her services, with her hair done up high, and a gown more fashionable than Dolly's, was as new and expensive as the whole room.
Your gown was foul spotted with the foot[84] of a gnat.
Follow me but a little, and mark what I say, Lay down your gown beside you, go to, come on your way: See ye not what is here?
He knew that a basin of water spilt on Mrs. Masham's gown deprived the Duke of Marlborough of his command, and led to the inglorious peace of Utrecht--that Louis XIV.
I could not venture to look at--the gown of silk that couldn't hide the points of the charming little feet.
Her arms are bare, her foot is small and white, The very oxen wonder at the sight; Her locks half bound, half floating in the air, And gown as light as those that satyrs wear.
Old Sybille, in a calico gown of the most glaring colours, her face shining with contentment, was brushing away some invisible dust from the furniture in the parlour.
With the townspeople the students had desperate affrays, ancient precursors of the comparatively mild town and gown rows of this century.
Only on great state occasions does he appear in his gown richly embroidered with gold.
He shared a room with three or four chums, he slept under a rug, his fare was coarse and scanty, his garment was the gown which has now become merely an academical symbol, and thankful he was to be provided with a new one.
She was certainly a very pretty woman, and her black gown set off to fullest advantage her deep red hair and fair complexion.
She was picturesquely dressed in a gown of flaming red silk, made as though in one piece, without trimming or flounces, and she seemed inclined to bestow upon her new acquaintance all the attention that he might desire.
The little lady had changed her gown of stiff white satin for one of flimsier material, and, seated in the easy-chair, she was busy pouring herself out some coffee.
I see her gown and her neckerchief and her hood; but your mother!
I have never given you anything, Franzl," she said; "would you rather have a gown or some money?
Annele has in every gown a pocketful of small coin.
The old housekeeper, who had seen him a few minutes before in dressing-gown and slippers, stared in amazement, but dared not utter a word, as she was not spoken to.
The silk gown and gold watch were utterly forgotten, and the coffee and sugar offered only as samples in the hope of gaining her cousin's custom.
Petrovitsch, however, still desired to get up, and asked if there was no comfortable dressing-gown in the house.
Because I hated the man whose dressing-gown I now am wearing; yes, hated him.
The fur-lined dressing gown was first thought of as a vehicle, but was abandoned.
The present was a fine silk dressing gown warmly lined with fox skin and a bag made out of bear hide into which he could put his feet.
It was like a dressing-gown after a dress-coat, and I went about with a delightfully free play of the mental and moral joints.
Before my uncle had time to throw off his large-flowered dressing-gown and dress himself, the ladies were in upon us.
The gown is ravishing, as you should have seen before this.
His clothes, except the little gown he had worn when dying, were put aside to be sent to poor women, already mothers or about to become such.
Who is it that paints the woodlands Like a gorgeous gown of gold; Dropping, here and there, a ripple Of vermilion in each fold?
The dawn came up with blushes, And shook from her gown the dew; And I heard the song of the skylark, As into the clouds he flew.
Habited in a loose gown of some easy, flexible, but rich material, worn with that peculiarly indolent slouch of the Mexican woman, Mrs. Saltillo had parted with half her individuality.
Do you think you can love me in my dressing-gown and slippers?
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