Surely, he had seen it all; but what kink of the brain was it that the men wore flowing wigs and immense boot-legs, and sported lace in the hunting-field?
I think we will behold a rare spectacle, a crowd of old wigswho have disguised themselves as savans.
By which, happily, no soldiers and only a few wigs were left behind.
Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.
Wigs in three divisions of loops at the back pass by, wigs in long queues, wigs in back and side bobs.
Their legs are tied up in leather guards, their feet are strongly shod, their wigs are in small bobs.
The big-wigs of the town, not at all less ridiculous than the pensioners of the Little Sisters of the Poor, crowded in, driving the ecclesiastics into the garden walks.
Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs the boot; also, formerly, cutting the back of the coach to steal the fine large wigs then worn.
I have long promised him a trip, and as it happens, it is as well that he should keep out of the way of the big-wigs over there.
The marine officer was a married man, rather grave and saturnine, and the purser had Republican tendencies, though he did not exhibit them except in the expression of his feelings towards lords and big-wigs in general.
They were old and used to failures, and with a little grunt of disappointment settled theirwigs upon their foreheads, and started off again at a jog-trot in search of another mare’s-nest.
And now it has toppled down and is on the way, perhaps, to becoming as much a thing of the past as wigsor knee-breeches.
People were afraid to wear wigs that might be made of the hair of those who had died of infection.
Was it not a fact that a bald-headed King wore a wig to conceal his baldness, which set all the flunkey-world wearing wigs to conceal their hair?
From end to end, singly or in pairs or trios, the gowns and wigs go back and forward.
We forgot that not Colonel Clays alone have false coverings to their heads, and that wigs may sometimes be worn from motives of pure personal vanity.
He described in graphic detail how the impostor got himself up with wigs and wax, so as to deceive even those who knew him intimately; and then he threw himself on Dr.
The only man that could fit her in shoes lived in Bond Street; and as to getting her hair dressed, except by a French scoundrel that made wigs for the aristocracy, it was clearly impossible.
What a strange alteration do robes and wigs make in the appearance of men of the law!
Counsel are not recognized even by their clients when they first see them in their rooms without their wigs and gowns.
And what can you and your brothers in wigs do against that?
As for Kearney, the announcement that Miss Betty was about to appear in public filled him with unmixed terror, and he muttered drearily as he went, 'There'll be wigs on the green for this.
But judges and lawyers wear theirwigs in court in the 20th century, state coachmen wear them on the box, and physicians and the higher clergy wore them even in the street long after laymen had given them up.
But by that time young bloods were leaving campaign-wigs for the bob-wig which sat yet more closely to the head, the curls leaving the neck uncovered.
I heard that he doctored her Blenheim, and used to bring her wigs from Paris," cried that malicious Tom Protocol, whose mots are known in every diplomatic salon from Petersburg to Palermo.
When such hundreds are coming, big wigs and little wigs of all shades, what can it matter whether Mr. Towers be there or not?
Then the other big wigs did look very big and solemn, and did shake their heads and did whisper to one another that they were afraid the matter could not be done.
Now, in the man brought up before him and the other big wigs on the bench for stealing the bullock, Tom does recognise the man who had done him that same good turn.
Says the other big wigs to Tom: ‘The fact has been proved quite clear.
They, as it has been said of Sterne, seemed to have wished, every now and then, to have thrown their wigs into the faces of their auditors.
Steenkirks; and after the battle of Ramilies, wigs received that denomination.
Full-bottomed wigswere invented by a French barber, one Duviller, whose name they perpetuated, for the purpose of concealing an elevation in the shoulder of the Dauphin.
But such a wig was the idol of fashion, and they were performing perpetually their worship with infinite self-complacency; combing their wigs in public was then the very spirit of gallantry and rank.
III Prejudice, perhaps, but unions between the sons of Mars and the daughters of Terpsichore were in those days frowned upon by the military big-wigs at the Horse Guards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
