The Chinese always wore their costume; the big yellow birds of paradise became quite a feature of the afternoon defile.

A large gaudy, flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.

Fearing to lose his wife and his dominions along with his sweetheart, he had sped to the nether regions with such expedition that he had had no time to change his costume.

In ten minutes Mr. Jinks had assumed his usual fashionable costume, and buckled on his sword.

In the matter of clothing, of course, it must be left to the individual taste and means of the purchaser, but the miners usually adopt the native costume of the region.

After dinner Patty donned her Diana costume and came down to ask her father's opinion of it.

A French observer, who was a prisoner at the time when the Sultan was personally directing the works at Tekedemt, describes his simple costume, like that of a laborer; his large tall hat, plaited with palm-leaves; his "incomparable grace" and "fascinating smile" as he saluted the man who was rather a guest than a captive.

We certainly have got some lovely costumes; they ain't much to them, but what there is is beautiful.

The official receptions were interesting that year, as one still saw a few costumes.

His figure, short, slight, elastic, and vigorous, looked still more light and youthful from the little sailor's-jacket and snowy trousers which formed his painting costume.

Strange as it may now seem, they succeeded in giving such efficacy to the idea, that no less a person than Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was led astray by it, so that she set her cool, wise head to work and invented a costume, which she believed would emancipate woman from thraldom.

"Explain that costume!"

How do you like your new costume?

The door was opened by a stout monk whose face fell when he perceived two laymen in riding costume.

He could not make her speak, and his words of reproach might as well have been given to the winds as to that cold, statue-like woman, who mechanically laid aside the fanciful costume in which she was arrayed, doing everything with a deliberation and coolness more exasperating to Richard than open defiance would have been.

Auchmuty Stein, of the Bowery, who supplies costumes and wigs at reasonable rates, was of the opinion that a neat sailor suit of light blue silk and decorated with white anchors was about the "brettiest thing in the shop, and sheap at fife dollars;" but Hefty said he never saw a sailor in silk yet, and he didn't think they ever wore it.

"I remember wondering," he continued, smiling, as they started and turned toward him, "why the young ladyshe was such a perfect ladywas martyred in a ball dress, as I took her costume to be.

" Even as he spoke he adjusted his costume, and Johnnie saw the car shoot forward like a living creature eager on the trail.

When she learned who I was, her husband could hardly keep her from putting on a costume too, to make a party of it.

There is a picture still to be seen of Victorine in this costume; and many a handsome young girl, having copied the costume exactly for a fancy ball, has looked from the picture to herself and from herself to the picture, and gone to the ball dissatisfied, thinking in her heart, "After all, I don't look half as well in it as that French girl did.

Their Zouave costume is very becoming, with the Oriental turban, caftan, and loose trousers; and the Philosopher of our party remarks, that the African requires costume, implying that the New Englander can stand alone, as can his clothes, in their black rigidity.

Mrs. Stanmore, too, had just sent back a misfitting costume to the dressmaker for the third time; so each lady being, as it were, primed and loaded, the lightest spark would suffice to produce explosion.

Having shown another and equally unbecoming costume, selected from a recent issue by an Oxford Street firm, the lecturer asked, Why did women think small waists beautiful?

If they need costumes, or expensive decorations for the booths, they give entertainments to raise the money.

In the mountains near Rome, the peasants regard with suspicion a singular costume, a stern cast of countenance, or any striking personal formation, in the strangers who arrive there.