His little satirical remarks were such as these: It was March and I took a bunch of violets to Rosa; notched white paper was wound around them, and Mr. Hawthorne said, 'They have on a cambric ruffle.

She had taken out the dicky, too, and for some reason filled in there with a flounce of pink net ripped off from the little ruffles that had flowed out from her sleeves.

A vision in incredible violet ruffles, coming down to breakfast, saw him, and paused on the stairway, and flushed and laughed deliciously.

He wore his own white hair in a bag of goodly size, a black velvet coat, with an embroidered waistcoat, and very rich laced ruffles; which Mrs. Thrale said were old fashioned, but which, for that reason, I thought the more respectable, more like a Tory; yet Sir Philip was then in Opposition in Parliament.

The most delicate ruffles filled the front of his swan's-down vest and fell over his hands, which were remarkably white and small and taper-fingered, like a fine lady's.

After the breath had left Anne's still lovely body, Mistress Saunders dressed her in a "Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland shift, with tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves."

So we dressed ourselves in our most elegant ruffles and silks, and were introduced to her ladyship.

And she asks to have more buttonholes, which means more buttons, and an extra ruffle on the waist.

A vision in incredible violet ruffles, coming down to breakfast, saw him, and paused on the stairway, and flushed and laughed deliciously.

He was gazing downward in careful consideration of three fat tortoise-shell pins and a surprising quantity of gold hair, which was practically all that he could see of Miss Hugonin's person; for that young lady had suddenly become a limp mass of abashed violet ruffles, and had discovered new and irresistible attractions in the mosaics about her feet.

Ria washed all those grease-spots out of my dress, and I had on a clean ruffle.

She was dressed now in a limp black of many rusty ruffles that sagged close to her and glistened in spots through its rust.

The squirrel hops two feet at a time, often leaving a slight ruffle on the snow as he swishes his tail.

That his long silk stockings never had a treacherous stitch allowed to break out into a long running ladder was due to her watchfulness; and that he wore spotless ruffles on his wrists or at his bosom was her doing also.

I still have a perfect vision of myself and sisters, as we stood up in the classes, with our toes at the cracks in the floor, all dressed alike in bright red flannel, black alpaca aprons, and, around the neck, a starched ruffle that, through a lack of skill on the part of either the laundress or the nurse who sewed them in, proved a constant source of discomfort to us.

" "And why, if I may venture still another blundering question, was poor Nora held responsible for a cough she never coughed?" Once more Miss Jones surveyed the torn ruffle at the bottom of her skirt.

Ruffled cuffs for married ladies,treble lace ruffles, a very dress cap with long lace lappets, two white plumes, and a blonde lace handkerchief.

Imagine an engineer driving his locomotive in blue coat, yellow waistcoat, and ruffles,quite as appropriate as a fastidious dress on the automobile.