Instead of being able to get yourself fresh gloves and silk stockings and a few trifles of that sort that make absolutely all the difference to a woman's life!
Leslie cut her last needleful of lilac silk and answered in the most reassuringly matter-of-fact tone: "But of course you will.
She was carefully darning a pair of silk stockings, stockings she was to wear with her all-mauve Nijinski rig at a costume dance in a week's time.
She rolled the silk stockings into a ball, and rose in sections from that sagging chair.
Leslie's impish face peeped at her over the silk stocking held up over the mushroom.
The most important Chiefs are as anxious indeed to appear like Europeans, as a prosperous native of Sierra Leone, is to wear patent boots and carry a silk umbrella.
Fortunately I find an old pair of kid gloves and with my head covered with a silk handkerchief and my legs in high hunting boots, prepare for the onslaught.
A swart Spanish brigand, with his sabre gripped in his teeth, was tearing a gold-thread and silk covering from a pillow; a second plunderer was wrenching from its chain a silver lamp.
He found Fabia lying on a rude pallet, with a small bale of purple silk thrust under her head for a pillow.
These simpler ones, embroidered with the silk flowers, are Fra Giorgio's work.
The strain could be borne no longer, and with a spring she sat up, and her hand touched the silk coverlet.
He drew a silk cap over his eyes, and awaited the stroke.
You have also seen that I was standing upon a silk carpet.
Fancy a ride like this in silk stockings and shoes!
We tossed to the fish humbugs of wool, silkand feathers, gauds such as captivate the greedy or the guileless.
This white silk dress she had worn at the Italian opera when Patti sung; in this furred mantle Pierre Olsdorf had wrapped her as they were leaving the theater.
The builder this time was a Cornish laborer's son, John Rudyerd, who had established himself in business on Ludgate Hill as a silk mercer.
Tender, graceful little creatures, Rosy coloured were their fur coats, As they clambered; from their shoulders Just like silktwo wings were sprouting.
What a quantity of superfluous silk hast thou got about thee, girl!
One of them threw him a coil of purple silk interwrought with gold thread, in which a running noose had been tied.
She came to him sheathed in a gown of shimmering silk that was of the golden brown of autumn tints, caught to her waist by a slender girdle of hammered gold.
His fine cloak of floss silk he gave to Balbi, who looked for all the world as if he had stolen it.
He had shoes with high though not extravagant heels, and gilt buckles; a gold cord with tassels adorned his jaunty three-cornered hat; and his girdle and sword belt were of gold silk and cord.
He was clad in a sort of dressing jacket of silk and lace, fine enough for any lady; and the bed was draped in silk from the Indies, worked in a fashion that set Tom agape.
The breeches were of the same cloth, but showed little, as silk stockings were drawn high up over them, almost meeting the vest or waistcoat, which was always long.
Laura entered in a short, fan-pleated frock with black silk knickerbockers, and lacy frills shrouding the knees.
Her eyes were closed, the fine pallor of her face, the steely lights of her dusky hair showed contrastingly against cushions of amber silk which propped her head.
His face was covered with mud, some of which was also spattered on the floss silk of his hair.
I am not afraid of mists," she said, and in her long silk bedgown she tripped to the outer door, opened it, and returned to fling herself in abandonment of fatigue upon her tiny couch.
Seven of them reached the dress-goods counter of the largest store in Mertonville, and here the little old gentleman bought black silkfor a dress.
Mary felt very proud, therefore, when she saw on the table in her room the parcel containing the black silk and trimmings.
Then she put out her hands towards him and made a step, and as the hood fell quite back with the silk kerchief, he saw her golden hair in the silver light.
Very tall and thin, and narrow chested, the figure was clothed all in cream-coloured silk and silver, relieved only by the collar of the Golden Fleece, the solitary order the King wore.
Inez laid a soft silk handkerchief upon her sister's hair, lest it should be disarranged by the hood which she lightly drew over all, assuring herself that it would sufficiently hide the face.
A tear ran down either side of her pink shiny nose and dropped on the folds of shepherd's-plaid silk veiling her plump bosom.
Even through the thickness of cloth jacket and silk shirt she was aware of their lifelessness and chill.
She let the black silk stocking, the toe of which she affected to darn, slip neglected on to the floor while she added up the pleasant column of them.
Your silk stockings hung round her neck, a posy of flowers twisted into them.
Hence the minor interest of the hour centred in debate as to whether or not the thermometer justified her wearing a coat of dark blue silk and cloth, heavily trimmed with ruchings and passementerie, reaching to her feet.
Damaris slipped her feet from the cushioned window-seat to the floor, and stooping down recovered her fallen black silk stocking.
Henrietta bent down, giving her attention to an inch of kilted silk petticoat, showing where it should not, beneath the hem of her blue skirt.
Therefore I find no fault with Damaris, upon this rather fateful evening, in that she clothed herself in a maize-coloured silk gown flowered in faint amber and faint pink.
While she herself looked trim, and finished in white silk shirt and russet-red suit, her toilet bearing no sign of indifference or of haste.
To-day's temperature justified the adoption of summer attire, of those thin, clear-coloured silk and muslin fabrics so deliciously to her taste.
In the evening, he appeared in a blue coat and white waistcoat, black pantaloons closely fitting, and buttoning tight to the ankle, striped silk stockings, and opera hat.
I added my silk hat to the geyser's cosy costume and a pair of boots on the bath-taps.
The old black silk gown looks worse than she expected in that searching light, and she feels nervous and shy at revisiting her former haunts; nor does she like leaving home for many hours at a time.
Silk Crewels and Filling Silk, specially shaded for these patterns.
Just in front of her left eye there flutters the rosette which he wears to-day as a member of the rifle-guild; the whitesilk ribbon trembles close to her eyelashes.
And she lifts up the hem of her skirt a little to show the works of art, light blue, high-heeled little shoes, tied across the instep with blue silk bows.
On the grass there gleams her bluesilk shoe, and not far from it lies her long, fine stocking.
He made his adieus and then hobbled along after the rose-coloured silk as though this was his last chance of warming his hands at the flame of life.
The young woman was dressed in rose-coloured silk that stood out from her slim body almost like a crinoline, and she had a straw funnel-shaped hat with roses perched on the side of her lovely head.
She saw the deep curtains, blue silk shot with purple, the chairs of blue silk and a bowl of soft amber light hanging from the ceiling.
She hoped she looked nice in her grey silk dress, and then caught sight of herself in a glass and thought she was as ever a fright.
It was a ghost in very truth that stood there; a ghost in black silk dress with white wristbands and a stiff white collar, black hair, so tightly drawn back and ordered that it was like a shining skull-cap.
The long black streets, strips of silk and the lamps like fat buttons on a coat, there was a cat!
Caroline was dressed in peach-coloured silk and a little black hat.
She wore a blacksilk wrapper over her shoulders, and soft black slippers.
She was wearing a dress of light blue silk and a large hat of blue with a grey bird in the front of it.
He started and looked round, and there was the Princess, bright in silk and jewels, with a pink rose in her powdered hair.
Presently a rustle was heard, and the headmaster swept down the staircase and through the curtain, robed in the black silk gown of an LL.
He saw the immense silk velum floating in the azure air over that rippling sea of men, those hundreds of thousands who swarmed on the marble steps of the Hippodrome.
