She was in white, with splendid diamonds and the broad blue ribbon of St. Andre.
The Emperor was in full uniform, with the blue ribbon of St. Andre.
Some of the hansom cab drivers with bits of black ribbon or stuff on their whips, and everybody looks grave.
They will send him a plaque and a ribbon from the jewellers, so he will be quite correct to-morrow.
The Queen was dressed in black satin with a long train, lined and trimmed with ermine, quantities of diamonds on her neck and corsage, the blue ribbon of the Garter, and a regular closed crown of diamonds, and white veil.
She was dressed with her little closed diamond crown, the blue ribbon of the Garter, and many diamonds.
Women from Auray, in three-cornered shawls and wide white-winged caps, sit all day long sewing broad bands of velvet ribbon on black beaver hats, stretching it round the crown and leaving it to fall in two long streamers at the back.
Down the steps a girl in white-winged cap and snowy apron, with pink ribbon at her neck, carrying a large black two-handled basket, is coming on her way from market.
Through the valley ran a small glistening stream, a mere ribbon of water, threading its way among rocks and boulders and vivid stretches of green grass.
At one pardon we won the ruban d'honneur--a broad bright-blue ribbon with silver tassels worn across the shoulder, and presented to the best dancer.
The simple words of this veteran, whose features, wounds, and red ribbon announced calm and tried bravery, profoundly struck the widow's daughter.
The matching of the colours for the background, the hem, and the knots of ribbon was by far the longest part of the business, and necessitated many sendings to and fro of the original pattern and of new samples.
As they rode, the keen eye of Jackson caught sight of a black object apparently struggling on the ground at the bottom of a little swale which made down in a long ribbon of green.
She was pointing down the road which lay like an écru ribbon thrown down across the prairie grass, bordered beyond by the timber-grown bluffs of the Missouri.
If you do not mail your invitations but have them left at your friends’ homes, tie each note with pink ribbon to the stem of a pink rose.
Raff Brinker turned the bright polished thing over and over in his hand, then he examined the bit of smoothly ironed black ribbon fastened to it.
With his lace and embroideries and his crown of blue ribbon and whalebone (for he was not quite past the tumbling age), he looked like the king of the babies.
Not a pocket-handkerchief, nor a waist-ribbon escaped; and I was more than once asked if I had really exhibited the whole of my wardrobe.
Kenelm bent down and covered with kisses the blue ribbonwhich Lily's hand had bound round the favourite's neck.
Lily turned resolutely from the perilous counter, taking up a paper that contained a new ribbon she had bought for Blanche, and Clemmy reluctantly followed her out of the shop.
None the less, so they write me, this noble peer never lets a week go by without going to show off his blue ribbon in the drawing-room of the Keeper of Seal, whoever it may be.
It came again from the old Imperial general who wanted the blue ribbon and wished to figure among the authors of the secret note.
There is no income of a hundred thousand crowns a year and no blue ribbon which could sustain a contest against such a code of salon etiquette.
But he had a sky-blue ribbon over this very simple suit.
Nowadays, it is true, if one sticks to this black suit, one gets at forty an income of a hundred thousand francs and the blue ribbon like my lord bishop of Beauvais.
In the Western Ribbon Snake the back stripe is darker than those on the side, or in some instances a different color.
Both the Ribbon Snakes and the Garter Snakes belong to the genus Eutænia, which is the most numerous of those of the United States.
As they walked to the brown ribbon road again, and over the hill to the valley, the sun was setting.
At last the ribbon road reached the top of the hill and wound along it a little way before it started twisting down the other side.
It had a fringe all around the top, and high mudguards, and a whip with a tassel and ribbon on it.
He wondered where that ribbon road went--over the hill and far away--perhaps clear round the World!
He held the small, soft fingers in his, and took off from her wrist the ribbon with which she had bound it.
Miss Lavish looked at the narrow ribbon of sky, and murmured: "Oh, you have property in Surrey?
He had suddenly extended his book before Miss Bartlett and Mr. Eager, binding their hands together by a long glossy ribbon of churches, pictures, and views.
On these outings it was attended by twelve footmen, each holding a separate ribbon attached to its leg.
It was merely a matter of a pin to be fixed, or a ribbon to be tied, but when she came to do it she met with a shower of abuse.
Round its neck was a ribbon on which was written, 'The emperor of Japan's Nightingale is a poor bird compared with the emperor of China's.
When we got the juice cooked enough it was good ribbon cane syrup and we would put it in big jugs and take it down in the cellar.
But it was another day that Old Ribbon impressed me.
If we cheated on Old Ribbonand helped each other up without her having to get near some climbable object, she was still patient and gentle with us.
Old Ribbon was a good gentle horse for Mama and us kids, but Papa had some big horses he used to move heavy loads and haul his cotton to the gin.
But one day, I remember, Old Ribbon gave us a little trouble.
But this time Old Ribbonhad symptoms of dysentery and gas.
To get up on Old Ribbon we had to lead her up beside a stump or a tub or a wagon tongue or something else we could climb up on and then jump on her back.
Anyway, Mama and I would hook Old Ribbonto the old buggy and take Papa his dinner every day.
Along with her other admirable characteristics, Old Ribbon was also smart.
Now, we hadn't gone more than a hundred yards from our house when Old Ribbon had to do what comes natural for all horses to do.
One time Earl and I loaded a truck with East Texas ribbon cane molasses from a railroad car in Hamlin and helped the owner peddle it from town to town.
I had not seen the colours on the creek nor the brown ribbon on the green velvet, as I sat by the window.
The Rivanna River looked like a ribbon of silvery satin laid on green velvet, all in striking contrast with the red soil of the tilled fields.
Round her dainty waist was a leathern belt set in silver with a chatelaine, like a small armoury of deadly weapons; and for colour she had a crimson ribbon about her neck.
He wore a plain black ribbonby way of necktie, and was modest in the way of studs.
To show that the ribbon was not entirely meant for vanity, but had its uses, Phillis had slung upon it a cross of Maltese silver-work, which I fear Jack had given her himself.
On one side of their room lived an old woman whose gray head was adorned with a bonnet decorated with the tri-color ribbon of the French flag.
A thin ribbon of light curled upward for an instant, then vanished.
Across the curtain of the night ran a broad ribbon of dancing camp-fires, stretching for miles along the bank of the river.
Four ornamental candy pieces were used: two were garden hats holding glazed cherries, and a pink ribbon tied around each hat held a large bunch of pink roses.
The baskets can be ornamented by tying a bunch of roses with a ribbon on the handle.
Evidently she was ill at ease, for her gloved fingers toyed nervously with the ribbon decorating the silver handle of her sunshade and her tiny shoe peeping from beneath her plain tailor-made skirt impatiently tapped the carpet.
True, very true," he replied, and twisted the ribbon of his eyeglass round one finger.
