Nothing can be at once more ugly and more laughable than the demi-toilette of an English Archbishop.
She came out of the water for the moment almost gay, and made her toilette with a vigour and energy she had not brought to it in many a day.
So you would have said if you had seen her when her toilette was done.
But Norah did not possess that toilette fraîche which is indispensable for a young lady at a picnic.
She slips, naturally, into her wrapper in order to enjoy her fire and easy-chair, then when the bell rings has a hurried toilette to make.
Helen paid unusual attention to her toilette on this occasion.
To-day the Holy week begins, and a kind of programma of the usual ceremonies of each day was laid on mytoilette this morning.
There are scarcely any of the ceremonies of a lady's toilette more a mystery to one sex than the other, and men and their wives, who scarcely eat at the same table, are in this respect grossly familiar.
At half past one or two they dine, but without altering the negligence of their apparel, and the business of the toilette does not begin till immediately after the repast.
It was conceded that at this repast he should be the host; and having placed him on oath behind a screen, Rosalie proceeded to make an elaborate toilette in honour of his entertainment.
This curious toilette completed, he wrapped a clean mat round him, and presented himself in full fig, to bid us all due welcome.
Accordingly, it is found to be more economical to fling away several articles of the toilette as soon as they have been soiled, and purchase a fresh supply, rather than pay this heavy tax on the purification of the old garments.
She was then beginning her own sad relation, when an unopened letter upon the toilettetable caught her eye.
Mrs. Berlinton, as usual, was the last to enter the room; for she never began the duties of the toilette till after tea-time.
The boy gone, she unfastened her collar, loosened a shoe that had pressed a bit too tightly over the instep, took a kimono and toilette articles out of her bag.
He recognised him at once, notwithstanding his appearance in an afternoontoilette as carefully chosen as his own.
It was her chief beauty; and the young Queen thought that this toilette was less the result of chance than might have been imagined.
However, she remembered that at ten o'clock she must appear at the royal toilette before all the court.
Blissfully independent of hair-curlers or any other such artificial accessories, her toilette could be completed with marvellous rapidity.
She had obviously made her toilette with great care and attention to detail.
She had taken more than the usual pains with her toilette this afternoon, and had chosen to wear a "creation" of wonderful old lace, with knots of primrose and violet velvet caught here and there among its folds.
Every woman possesses some personal charm in perfection, and Coralie's toilettebrought her characteristic beauty into prominence.
All the colors of her toilette had been carefully subordinated to her complexion; her dress was delicious, her hair gracefully and becomingly arranged, her hat, in exquisite taste, was remarkable even beside Mme.
Bargeton tried to arrange a suitable toilette in which to call on her cousin, Mme.
The simple costume seemed like a rich toilette on Eve, for she was one of those women whose great nature lends stateliness to the least personal detail; and David felt prodigiously shy of her now that she had changed her working dress.
Her complexion was perfect, and her rather plainly made toilette of cream chiffon suited her beauty admirably.
Her rich toilette had but one fault: it was a thought too overladen to be in perfect taste.
She wished to have the grave question of the toilette settled first, but Gabrielle seemed to have lost all interest in it for that day, and was, besides, too much accustomed to follow the bent of her own caprices even to heed the objection.
For a country walk her toilettewas only laughable.
A parallel instance is that of afternoon receptions, where the hostess and her myrmidons appear in ball costume, while the visitors are naturally in the toilette of the street.
An improvement in the toilette accommodation for ladies also seems a not unreasonable demand.
As is the way with all women of genius, Catherine's complete change of toilette indicated a parallel change in her demeanour.
He found the bandbox where it had been described, arranged his toilette with care, and left the house.
He had his whole toilette fashionably renewed; and was shaved and had his hair dressed every morning by a barber in a neighbouring street.
He was then a most charming pet savage, and his toilette completed, he invariably sat next to his mistress, drinking a gourd-shell of hot milk, while I smoked my early morning pipe beneath the tree.
There is little difficulty in describing the toilette of the native-- that of the men being simplified by the sole covering of the head, the body being entirely nude.
Both the lappet and tail are fastened on a belt which is worn round the loins, like those in the Shir tribe; thus the toilette is completed at once.
Our toilette did not take long to arrange, as we had thrown ourselves down at night with our clothes on; accordingly we entered the canoe at once, and gave the order to start.
Now, I may be singular in my ideas; but I confess that it does appear to me a strange way of enjoying oneself in the dog-days, to make one's toilette at eleven p.
