32 Metaphors for gowns

"There are all sorts of things in our garret,except things that are good for some particular purpose,and this old gown was the best I could find to cover me up.

THE TEABERRY GOWN IS DONNED XXXII.

THE TEABERRY GOWN IS DONNED XXXII.

His black gown was not an academic badge, but the Dominican dress.

For crime was virtue: Gown and Sword

Hard were her hands, and brown; Coarsest of stuff her gown: Sod hut her home.

By the fair flood she came to lean (Her gown was lilac print), And dip her pitcher down between The stalks of water-mint.

THE TEABERRY GOWN IS TOO LARGE XXI.

Thy gown should be snow-white silk, And strings of orient pearls, Like gossamers dipp'd in milk, Should twine with thy raven curls.

'Ma chatte, you have made me positively adorable,' she would say, peering at her reflection in the ivory hand-mirror, a dazzling image of rouge and bismuth, carmined lips, diamonds, and frizzy yellow hair; 'I verily believe I look under thirtybut do not you think this gown is a thought too

The gown was a poor fit, stopping just below the knees.

Her gown was a dream, and a dream of a dress at a Paris garden party means something.

He makes very much of his authority, but more of his satin doublet, which, though of good years, bears its age very well, and looks fresh every Sunday: but his scarlet gown is a monument, and lasts from generation to generation.

"My gown is all dust, crumple, and rags, my bonnet perfectly limp and flat, and my gloves are ruined; I've broken Lizzie's parasol, made a spectacle of myself, and wasted money, time, and temper; yet my Class Day isn't a failure, for Jack is the dearest boy in the world, and I'm very, very happy!" Pris looked at her a minute, then opened her arms without a word, and Kitty forgot all her little troubles in one great joy.

From a philanthropy down to a gown, one catholic necessity, one catholic principle; gowns can be benefactions or injuries; philanthropies can be well or ill clad.

And this tailor gown was a costume to which Mary had condemned herself by her own folly.

This young man, when a fortune left him by his father, acquired in such a traffic, had inspired him with the hope of a higher condition, and the gown and forum were the objects of his choice, by declaiming vehemently in behalf of men and causes of the lowest kind, in opposition to the interest and character of the good, first came to the notice of the people, and then to offices of honour.

While if I send her the articles themselves, she will prize and wear them, even if the gown was a horse blanket and the ornament a Plymouth Rock rooster to wear on her head.

She went fearlessly to the couch, and found that the dressing-gown was only an enwrapping of the emaciated and lifeless body of De Ferrières.

This law is more honoured in the breach than in the observance; but, on the occasion of this visit of Mr. Dodgson's to Convocation, the Proctor's gown was actually pluckedon account of an unfortunate man who had gone through the Bankruptcy Court.

" CHAPTER XX THE TEABERRY GOWN IS TOO LARGE

Margaret was hatlessand the glory of the eminently sensible spring sun appeared to centre in her hairand violet-clad; and the gown, like most of her gowns, was all tiny tucks and frills and flounces, diapered with semi-transparenciesunsubstantial, foam-like, mere violet froth.

In the soft, rosy twilight of the roomthe study at Selwoode is panelled in very dark oak, and the doors and windows are screened with crimson hangingsher parti-coloured red-and-yellow gown might have been a scrap of afterglow left over from an unusually fine sunset.

The sun was high and hot, shadows were scant and sharp, here a fence and there a wall were as blinding white as the towering fair-weather clouds, gowns were gauze and the parasols were six, for up beside the old coachman sat Victorine.

"And if you want a new gown, Nell, I don't mind giving it you," said the bailiff, in a burst of generosity, and with the prevailing masculine idea that a new gown was a panacea for all feminine griefs.

32 Metaphors for  gowns