Give me an arm, Doctor; and Peyton, clap myperiwig upon my head, will you?
He answered Phyllis a little abruptly at supper the same evening; upon which she threw his periwig into the fire.
He in the middle made a most magnificent figure--his periwig was large enough to have loaded a camel, and he bestowed upon it at least a bushel of powder, I warrant you.
Another example from Holme is a smaller style of periwig with tail, and from this wig doubtless originated the familiar pig-tail.
This is not so cumbrous as the periwigwe have noticed.
In the picture of the House of Commons in the time of Sir Robert Walpole we get an excellent indication of how popular the periwig was amongst the law-makers of the land.
Where the patron was the owner of a spare periwig it might be dressed in advance, and sent home in a box, or mounted on a stand, such as a barrister keeps handy at the present day.
The periwig was surmounted by a high-crowned hat adorned with feathers and ribbons, and ribbons floated from his person in such abundance that to unaccustomed eyes the effect was little short of grotesque.
The great clotted periwig was with some difficulty got off, and then it was possible to remove the worst of the tar from face and eyes.
The last I heard was that he was scouring London, tearing his periwig in pieces in despair that the race of poets was extinct, and he could only find the most wretched doggerel mongers, whose productions were too vile to be tolerated.
But I would like a companion picture on the other side--the mule running away with Absalom, and the periwigleft hanging on the tree!
I think the king's great periwigis most beautifully depicted.
From the moment when Augustanism really began--in the latter decades of the seventeenth century--the periwig poetry of Dryden and Pope crushed out all the natural singing of the true poets.
All theperiwig poets became too 'polite' to be natural.
In front of the Gothic window stood the old citizen, wrapped in a wide gown, his grayperiwig exchanged for a nightcap, which was thrust back from his forehead, and his silk stockings hanging about his legs.
As Robin drew nigh, he saw that the passenger was a man in years, with a full periwig of gray hair, a wide-skirted coat of dark cloth, and silk stockings rolled above his knees.
He enters by mistake an inner room at the moment when a frightened servant brings the discrowned potentate a periwig large enough to reach to the elbows.
Dryden was never poor, and there is at Oxford a portrait of him painted in 1664, which represents him in a superbperiwig and laced band.
The periwig style had its natural place in the age of Louis XIV.
Riehl contrasts the periwig period with the mediæval, and concludes that the mediæval backgrounds of pictures implied feeling for the wild and romantic.
The aberrations of taste which found expression in the periwig style of Louis XIV.
The great periwig shrivelled to a pigtail, and petty flourish took the place of Lenotre's grandezza.
My Lord of Gore stood at the window, stroking his periwig with some such dissatisfaction on his face as he might have betrayed at the first hint that he was growing old.
Their worldly ambitions were identical; the petticoat and the periwig were allied in their campaign against the amiable idiosyncrasies of the King.
He went away at a good pace, leaving Stephen Gore standing on the footway, with the wind blowing his periwig about his face.
The little man in the big periwig came in looking testy, and not to be trifled with.
His beast carried Mr. Pepys into the boughs of a thorn-tree, yet, though tangled up with his periwig in his mouth, he managed to shout and warn John Gore.
Supremely tempted, Sparkin had fished out a periwig and clapped it on his head.
Her face was turned toward her mother, as though the gentleman in the periwig were a mere negligible shadow.
He had thrown his periwig into a corner, put on the oldest clothes he could find, to ride out like a sturdy crop-head of a Britisher daring enough to venture on the roads at such an hour.
Stephen Gore shook his periwig with the action of an impatient horse shaking its mane.
He is a gay, and sanguine man, His periwig the wind does fan, And she will hug him, now and than, Do what you can.
He has his shoes rubbed and his periwig powdered at the barber's as you go into the Rose.
His hose and shoes were of the same color, against which his blouse, cuffs and periwig were emphasized, a pale white.
He removed his finely powdered periwig and ran his heavy fingers through his dark hair.
The Prince then pulling off the periwig and putting it into his pocket took out a dirty white napkin and desired the Captain to tye that about his head, and to bring it down upon his eyes and nose.
Lord George behaved himself with great gallantry, lost his horse, his periwig and bonnet, was amongst the last that left the field, had several cutts with broadswords in his coat, and was covered with blood and dirt.
His periwig fell in a very considerable bush upon each shoulder.
The greatness of his life was open, yet he longed to communicate its smallness also; and, while contemporaries bowed before him, he must buttonhole posterity with the news that his periwig was once alive with nits.
Nothing, indeed, is more notable than the heroic quality of the verses that our little sensualist in a periwig chose out to marry with his own mortal strains.
I have seen a characteristic Papuan periwig produced in England in the case of a fair-haired girl.
Broca;[91] and he would wear his hair in the style of a bushyperiwig in which all the hairs are entangled independently into a loose frizzled mass.
The majority of natives, however, produce by constant combing a large bushy periwig in which all the hairs are entangled independently into a loose frizzled mass, the separate locks being no longer discernible.
The periwig became more monstrous, and it was the fashion for the beau to comb his wig in public just as a modern gallant would twirl his moustache.
Head of George, Earl of Albemarle, showing the voluminous periwig of the time of James II.
The periwig had, however, been worn in England for many years, but did not become fashionable until this reign.
The second is a gentleman of a long twisted periwig without a curl in it, a muff with very little hair upon it, and a threadbare coat with new buttons, being a person of great worth, and second brother to a man of quality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "periwig" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
