Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses and made havoc with them, not sparing her wedding dress either, but tearing and ripping them all up so that there was hardly a shred or rag left big enough to dress a doll in.

" "And this is my wedding dress!"

The fact is, this dark hood is the bird's wedding dress.

Rejoice, poor housewives, who, on days of poverty, were obliged to carry to the Mont-de-Piété[80] the discoloured remains of your wedding dress, or your husband's Sunday coat; rejoice, artisans, who, after a day of toil, thought your bed so hard since your last mattress was taken to the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux, to rejoin your last pair of sheets.

A year later Eppie was married, and Mrs. Godfrey Cass provided the wedding dress, and Mr. Cass made some necessary alterations to suit Silas's larger family.

Sometimes she wondered if embroidered muslin were quite the right material for the wedding dress of a fisherman's wife; but as she had no other frock which would serve, it had to be that or nothing.

Besides, when I have a wedding dress laid away and a bottle of good wine, it seems a pity not to use them.

During the next ecstatic ten minutes, with my hand pressed against my wildly beating heart, I planned my wedding dress, selected with care and discrimination my trousseau, furnished the rose-embowered cottage far from the madding crowdand wondered why Father did not send for me.

Not until I had donned my travelling suit, and my little white Swiss wedding dress was being packed, did I fully realize that the days of inseparable companionship between Georgia and me were past; She had long been assured that in my new home a welcome would be ever ready for her, yet she had thoughtfully answered, "No, I am not needed there, and I feel that I am needed here.

I've got to have a wedding dress and it takes at least a week to dream a wedding dress when it is the only time you ever intend to be married.

I've got to have a wedding dress and it takes at least a week to dream a wedding dress when it is the only time you ever intend to be married.

Madeline was present at the closing scene, in her wedding dress.

"This one is Stanley, Jermain's brother, who died when he was a baby," the dull voice droned on; "and this is Mattie in her wedding dress.

"My mother's wedding dress, as I live!

"Why, that's my wedding dress," she said.

"Why, I thought if it was just a dress," replied Migwan, "I could make it over to wear to Gladys's party, but of course if it is your wedding dress you wouldn't care to have it changed.

Helen Grace Carlisle (A); 2Jul63; R317944. Wedding dress.

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Helen Grace Carlisle (A); 2Jul63; R317944. Wedding dress.

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Many also moult again the following spring, when they put on their wedding dress; and one of the curious things about this change of plumage is, that the new feathers often come out quite unlike those that were cast off.

Jerichau painted a portrait of the present Queen of England, in her wedding dress.

Once, when they were standing together and Frank was near to them, Richard laid his hand upon Ethelyn's shoulder which the cut of the wedding dress left bare.

For a gentleman's wedding dress see the "ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.

But if reception days have been fixed, the bride, with her husband and bridesmaids, will sit "at home" ready to receive those to whom cards have been sent, the bride wearing her wedding dress, and the company invited to partake of wedding cake and wine to drink the health of the bride.