She was in her warm wadded dressing-gown, an article in which she still showed certain traces (which were indeed visible in all she wore) of her ancient beauty, with her white hair becomingly arranged under a cap of cambric and lace.

I found a clever workman and made him cut out under my direction the foundation of a saddle, which I wadded and covered with choice leather, adorning it with rich gold embroidery.

" Uncle John had his pocketbook out, and now he wadded up some bills and thrust them into the little school teacher's hand.

He caught a newspaper sheet fluttering by, wadded it up, and surmounted it with the hot cake.

I thought I'd like to call up Centraljust to be sure I could make the thing go What is the matter, Pa-pah?" He dropped into a wadded armchair and motioned Sybilla to a seat opposite.

His extra shirt, instead of being wadded into the fore-end of the saddlebag on top of a pair of socks, had been stuffed into the hinder end on top of a pair of underdrawers.

The poor line theirs with cotton cloth, wadded with the finest wool which they can sort out from their fleeces; and of the coarser wool they make felts for covering their houses and chests, and for sleeping upon.

" A moment later her mouth was wrenched open, and a huge wadded bandanna was stuffed into it.

But nothing had been dropped except a brilliant bandanna, wadded compactly together, which the sheriff recognized as belonging to Sandersen.

Now comes the thickly-wadded winter pelisse of silk or merino, with bands or ligatures, which instantly bury themselves in the depths of the surrounding hillocks, till within the case of clothes before you, which stands like a roll-pudding tied up ready for the boiler, no one would suspect the slender skipping sprite that your little finger can lift.

He was muffled in a thickly wadded silk coat of a dark colour.

In his dress he has a muffled, wadded look and an apparent aversion to linen, inasmuch as none is visible on his person.

But he wraps himself in his money as in a wadded dressing-gown, and goes trundling through life on his little gold wheels.

The door was wide open, and he could see that she was wearing a white wrapper covered with large red flowerssome kind of Eastern, wadded dressing-gown.

"And how funny they must look in their wadded dresses!"

A man who would not be reckoned suspect now arrays himself in a jacket and trowsers (a Carmagnole) of striped cotton or coarse cloth, a neckcloth of gaudy cotton, wadded like a horse-collar, and projecting considerably beyond his chin, a cap of red and blue cloth, embroidered in front and made much in the form of that worn by the Pierrot of a pantomime, with one, or sometimes a pair, of ear-rings, about the size of a large curtain-ring!

They are all wadded and furred as though they were going on a sledge party, and the men, in this respect, are more delicate than the ladies: but whether it be the consequence of these precautions, or from any other cause, I observe they are, in general, without excepting even the natives of the Southern provinces, less sensible of cold than the English.

Yung Pak's own sleeping-room was a dainty affair, with its paper walls, tiger-skin rugs upon the stone floor, and the softest of mats and silk and wadded cotton coverings for his couch.

Other riders had more comfortable seats, for most of the ponies carried baggage in two wicker baskets,one strapped upon each side,and on top of these was piled bedding and wadded clothing, which made a soft seat for the rider.

When the hunters were after game the robe was discarded, and its place taken by a short wadded jacket, its sleeves bound around the arms over wadded cuffs which reached from wrist to elbow.

When the hunters were after game the robe was discarded, and its place taken by a short wadded jacket, its sleeves bound around the arms over wadded cuffs which reached from wrist to elbow.

For our maidsespecially those of the countrylook too much as if they had been made out of wooden pillows such as laborers use to lay their heads on of nightsone large bolster set on the top of two other little ones, and all three well wadded with ticking and feathers.

When it is cold, I am wrapped in a wadded robe Kate has made for me,a capital thing, loose, and warm, and silky-soft.

Next, he tweaked my nose, and as I turned round to avoid him, he applied his footyes, his footto the back of my trunk-hose; and well was it that the hose were stoutly wadded and quilted.

She bent her head in its wadded black velvet hood, but excused herself from rising, as she was crippled by rheumatic pains.