A gentle shower of white flakes began, powdering the surface of everything.

You're not looking as pert as usual yourselfyou haven't been powdering' your face, I hope!

But Ada refused to be mollified, and she remained indifferent to the shrieks of delight that greeted the first powdering of snow.

His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.

But when, after his four hours' spell, the mate came down again, he was amazed to see the Governor, in his Ramillies wig, his glasses, and his powdering-gown, still seated sedately at the lonely table with his reeking pipe and six black bottles by his side.

She preferred the older part of the house, and liked the steps down into her room, the uneven floor, the low ceiling, the quaint window-seats, and the powdering closet where she hung her dresses.

exclaimed Trenck, shaking his head, which Karl had not finished powdering.

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Wellbut, seriously, I think, I shall be glad to see you in your own hair; but do not take too much time in combing, and twisting, and papering, and unpapering, and curling, and frizling, and powdering, and getting out the powder, with all the other operations required in the cultivation of a head of hair; yet let it be combed, at least, once in three months on the quarterday.

You just go backafter powdering your nose a littleand say that you've come to see the picture once more, or that it's a fine day, or that competition is the life of trade, or thatoh, anything!

Then we returned and commenced a general powdering of the beds, beginning with the de Tournelles' apartment; next we went to the Marquise'sshe had such an exquisite nightgown laid out, it was made of pink chiffon.

The powder, Clare.' Gideon watched the absurd drying and powdering process with gravity and interest, as if trying to discover its charm.

for the pleasure of powdering and plastering their footmen's heads, as if they had just escaped from a flour-mill and passed a greasy hand over their hair: will any one deny, that the money spent in the tax would promote "John's" comfort and cleanliness much more, if expended in good baths, brown Windsor, and small-tooth combs.

Her conduct as a faithful widow is next highly eulogized, and the ceremony of her manumission is completed by one man powdering on her head the down of birds and another pouring on it the contents of a bladder of oil.

Their whole time should be taken up in the real study of their profession, not in powdering, pipeclaying, blacking, polishing, and such military fopperies.

The difference arose about mine hostess Quickly (for I would not give a rush for a man unless he be particular in matters of this moment); they both aimed at her body, but Abencerrago Pistol defies his rival in these words: 'Fetch from the powdering-tub of infamy That lazar-kite of Cressid's kind, Doll Tearsheet, she by name, and her espouse: I have, and I will hold, The quondam Quickly for the only she.

We have long been acquainted With ladies who painted To mimic a juvenile mien; But I'd ban sans compassion The powdering fashion When practised by sweet seventeen; And I wish that wise mothers And sensible brothers Would let their abhorrence be seen.

Bedrooms were multiplied and enlarged; and fireplaces were introduced into every room, transforming the arctic "powdering-closet" into a habitable dressing-room.

When light snow is first powdering the spruces and bending the delicate hemlock branches, dusky shapes flit out of the green cover.

A valet who walks the street in his powdering jacket, disdains a livery as much as the fiercest republican, and with as much reasonfor there is no more difference between domestic occupation performed in one coat or another, than there is between the party-coloured habit and the jacket.

A valet who walks the street in his powdering jacket, disdains a livery as much as the fiercest republican, and with as much reasonfor there is no more difference between domestic occupation performed in one coat or another, than there is between the party-coloured habit and the jacket.

Good Sir look before you, he'l work you out of all else: if you sell all your Land, you have sold your Country, and then you must to Sea, to seek your Brother, and there lye pickled in a Powdering tub, and break your teeth with Biskets and hard Beef, that must have watering Sir: and where's your 300 pounds a year in drink then?

Whether in the keen cold of the still nights when the howl of the wolves came to me like the cries of torment, or in the howling tempests which roared across my puny hovel like trampling hosts of wild things, sifting the snow in at my window, powdering the floor, and making my cattle in their sheds as white as sheep, I went to sleep every night thinking of her, and thinking I should dream of herbut never doing so; for I slept like the dead.

Powdering every timeand sucking her lips to make them redand twisting her neck aboutugh!

After a storm the snow will lie powdering the green beech trees, making the rocks gleam frostily and sharpening the savage ridges till they look like the jagged edges of stone axes.