In his more modern aspect he tells you that a girl at the Junior Promenade had on a blue dress with feathers around her neckwhich you must translate into meaning anything from blue satin to organdie, and that between dances she wore a feather boa.

And it was in the same tranquil way as before that she thanked Denis when he brought her the boa: "I am obliged to you, Blaise; you are very amiable.

Then she added, with a desperate coolness, but still clasping the boa rigidly: "The hotel is only a block away, and to-morrow you will be back in the store and I shall soon be on my side of the pass.

You can reason with a bulldog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, tame a lion; but you have no resource against this monster, a loose cannon.

A little one of my acquaintance had a bit of blanket which comforted many woes, and when once I offered her a feather boa as a substitute she sobbed out: "It isn't so soft as the blanket!"

A lady paying a visit may remove her boa or neckerchief; but neither her shawl nor bonnet.