Their bodies were enveloped in a coarse haik, a species of serge of their own manufacture.

Listen, little son," she went on, and she gripped Serge by the wrist till he could feel the bones of her fingers against his flesh.

He wears himself in opposition to the mode, for his lining is much coarser than his outside; and as others line their serge with silk, he lines his silk with serge.

'Then white serge for nurse to make Dilly's skirtsskirts a quarter of a yard

Happen to be going out to Roaring Springs?" Miss Benton's gray eyes rested impersonally on the top of his head, traveled slowly down over the trim front of his blue serge to the polished tan Oxfords on his feet, and there was not in eyes or on countenance the slightest sign that she saw or heard him.

As Mrs. Marshall, though not at all pretty, was a tall, upright, powerfully built woman, with a dark, shapely head gallantly poised on her shoulders, this garb, whether short-skirted, of blue serge in the morning, or trailing, of ruby-colored cashmere in the evening, was very becoming to her.

What jealous lover would dare to lift that curtain of serge behind which are murmured so many secret confidences?

When I'd brought them all out, she shook her head again and said they would not do at allnot in Andersonville; that they were extravagant, and much too elaborate for a young girl; that she would see the dressmaker and arrange that I had some serviceable blue and brown serges at once.

In fact we always recommend serge as extremely quiet.