Tired bombazine procession, wrapped in the greasy odors of years of carpet-sweeping and emptying slops, airing the gassy slit of room after the coroner; and padding from floor to floor on a mission of towels and towels and towels!

Sometimes climbing from floor to floor, a still warm supply of them looped over one arm, Mrs. Kaufman, who wore bombazine, but unspotted and with crisp net frills at the throat, and upon whose soft-looking face the years had written their chirography in invisible ink, would sit suddenly, there in the narrow gloom of her halls, head against the balustrade.

" Above the black-bombazine basque, so pleasantly relieved at the throat by a V of fresh white net, a wave of color moved up Mrs. Kaufman's face into her architectural coiffure, the very black and very coarse skein of her hair wound into a large loose mound directly atop her head and pierced there with a ball-topped comb of another decade.

You wouldn't have me going about in a continuous state of unbuttonedness and black bombazine like Mrs. Rabbet, would you?" Rudolph Musgrave debated as to this.

In fact, I think she's looking rather nice going around a sick-room in that blue bombazine.

" "It isn't bombazine, Bob," said his sister; "it's beautiful, lovely light-blue chiffon.

Andy recognized the green bombazine dress of Miss Lavinia Talcott.

She walks in quickly, but without haste; dressed in her mutch, her neckerchief, her white dimity short-gown, her black bombazine petticoat, showing her white worsted stockings and her carpet-shoes.

I think it was a white swiss or a blue organdie, or a challis, or a bombazine, I can't just exactly remember.

And when they were up, she tried on the black satin gown, which had been her visiting dress ever since she was married, and which she intended should replace the old, worn-out bombazine on the day of the visit to Combehurst.

"'Then rung through the tumult a trumpet so shrill, That it frightened the ladies all down Ludgate Hill, And the owlets in Ivy Lane; Then came in their chariots, each face in full blow, The sheriffs and aldermen, solemn and slow, All bombazine, bag-wig and chain.

Her black straw hat was trimmed with stiff new crape, and her stiff new bombazine dress had crape collar and cuffs.

Even this arid female, whose armor of black bombazine looks stronger against the shafts of love than any cuirass of triple brass, has had her sentimental history, if I am not mistaken.

The poor boarder in bombazine is my dynamometer.

You look on the black bombazine and high-necked decorum of your neighbor, and no more think of the real life that underlies this despoiled and dismantled womanhood than you think of a stone trilobite as having once been full of the juices and the nervous thrills of throbbing and self-conscious being.

There is a wild creature under that long yellow pin which serves as brooch for the bombazine cuirass,a wild creature, which I venture to say would leap in his cage, if I should stir him, quiet as you think him.

I will tell you my wicked, but involuntary experiment on the wild heart under the faded bombazine.

How can a man name an innocent new-born child, that never did him any harm, Hiram?The poor relation, or whatever she is, in bombazine, turned toward me, but I was stupid, and went on.

MEYSENBUG, MALWIDA VON. Memoirs; rebel in bombazine.

MEYSENBUG, MALWIDA VON. Memoirs; rebel in bombazine.

" The judge heard and shrugged his bombazine-covered shoulders.

At first Aunt Barbara refused to give it, wishing to spare Ethie this notoriety; but she finally yielded so far as to say, "She might call herself either Markham or Grant," and that was all they could get from her; but after that day the bombazine dress, and black Stella shawl, and large sun umbrella were safe from the surveillance of the police, save as each had a kindly care for the owner, and an interest in the object of her search.

She entreated her to leave off her bombazine dresses; the touch of them interfered with her feelings for her, she said; in fact, their contact made her crawl all over.

Veronica refused to wear the bonnet and veil and the required bombazine.

Bombazine made her flesh crawl.