"I just asked along the road until I found you," she said, untying her bonnet strings; "I knew this lonesome little house must be the place.

He dressed like a habitant from head to foot, putting on a tasselled bonnet rouge and an etoffe du pays (grey homespun) suit of clothes, with a red sash and bottes sauvages like Indian moccasins.

As she had brought her hair-trunk and bonnet-box, it was probable her stay would be indefinite.

My shy little blue bonnet girl.

Edith went in, to join a cheerful family in a comfortable and commodious room; Emilie, to a scantily furnished, and shabbily genteel apartment, let to her and a maiden aunt by a straw bonnet maker in the town.

And because it was there she spent half the day retrimming a bonnet and washing and ironing a gown to wear to the picnic; and after long and anxious pondering of the matter, she deliberately took out of her best box of artificial flowers a bunch of white heather, and added it to the bonnet trimming.

And from his head with stripes of black his silken streamers flow, His bonnet blue he dyes anew in tints of grief and woe.

"You'll have to start a bonnet-shop.

War bonnet mavericks.

The lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang, In silks an' scarlets glitter; Wi' sweet-milk cheese in monie a whang, An' farls baked wi' butter, Fu' crump that day. When by the plate we set our nose, Weel heapèd up wi' ha'pence, A greedy glowr black-bonnet throws, An' we maun draw our tippence.

Helen Torrey Renich (NK); 4Feb74; R569875. R569876. How to make blue bonnet flowers.

Wi' bonnet aff, quoth I, 'Sweet lass, I think ye seem to ken me; I'm sure I've seen that bonie face,

Should the solemn question arise as to how I knew that one of these young women was in the straw-bonnet line, another a milliner, a third a dress-maker, and so forth, I will answer it by stating that the left forefinger of the seamstress, long since vulcanized into a little file, furnishes the infallible sign which indicates the class.

At some apparently odd moment she stumbles on a truth, perhaps the relation of one form to another in the mazes of bonnet-making; it is at these odd moments that we learn.

In one of the first of our after-dinner bonnet patches, he seized his gun, fired, and began to shout, "A purple!

I wish my readers always to bear in mind that these Reminiscences are meant to bear upon the changes which would include just such a revolution as that referred to at page 15 in the bonnet practice of Laurencekirk.

I shall keep the shoes, however, and if ever the venerable purple sun-bonnet runs afoul of me, I shall hold them up before it and see what happens.

And as for the Little Playmate, I did not mind her a bonnet-tag.

Emilie and aunt Agnes are not there, but Miss Webster is still going on with her straw bonnet trade and her lodging letting, and she is really as good tempered as we can expect of a person whose temper has been bad so very long, and who has for so many years been accustomed to view her fellow creatures suspiciously and unkindly.

The nuns of new-won Cales his bonnet lent, In lieu of their so kind a conquerment.

His hose were of tawny silk, and the plumes in his bonnet black, striped with white.

He was a frightful spectacle when they raised his bonnet-bleu, which had fallen down over his face.

She spoke with feeling and dignity, and led me away, lecturing me greatly as she did so for not obeying Mrs. Austin as to the sun-bonnet bondage, which she promised; to make as light as possible by purchasing for me a new French contrivance called a calêche, light and airy and sheltering all at once.

She cheerily smoothed the bonnet-bows under the old lady's chin: "Now, chère, you know the assets are all you care foreven if with them you have to take a nincompoop for a grandson.

The plumes of yellow, blue, and white From off his bonnet brim he tears, He will no longer carry them; They are the colors Zaida wears.