The French girl never wears lace or jewels or feathers or heavy material of any kind, quite unlike her English or American contemporaries, who wear what they like.

Why, sure enough, there she is sittingdon't you see?there, sitting at Dame Damerel's door making lace for the life of her.'

Walking straight toward Bacon, he tore open the lace at his bosom and cried: "Here!

It opens like a fan, and discovers a frame such as they weave lace upon at Lyons and Chambery.

"Never mind about untying 'em, Alf; cut the laces and get 'em off quick.

The Tree Girl sighed as she patted the bobbing curls into some order, tied the laces and straightened a buckle here and there.

Even the most disreputable-looking old beggar at the gate who sold shoe-laces, learned to know us, and would run to open the door of the carriage.

" Here you find yourselves enjoying a bit of fun from which your master is shut out, for three or four girls come up from the ring together, and, not seeing you, hidden behind your screens, two, in whom you and Nell have already recognized saleswomen from whom you have more than once bought laces, begin to talk to overawe the others.

BAYEUX (7), an ancient Norman city in the dep. of Calvados, France; manufactures lace, hosiery, &c.; is a bishop's seat; has a very old Gothic cathedral.

I saw my father half smiling, and fingering the lace at his throat.

And so I shook out this crispy lace of emotion that was rather choking in my throat, and went down to where Chloe watched the elements whence all this chemistry had been evolved.

He straightened the lace about his wrists, and his features lost their strained attention.

DANNUX (as he takes the laces from Patcha's boots lying near the bed, and ties up the parcel)

She looked round, and smoothing the lace of her peignoir with one hand: "You are Edgar's friend?"

Snow-White did not dream of any mischief; so she stood up before the old woman who set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tightly that Snow-White lost her breath, and fell down as if she were dead.

From twig to twig, before my face, The spiders wove their curious lace, As they a curtain fine would see Between the hindering bars and me.

Cluseret's destiny was to fall; Cluseret has fallen because he did not like gold lace and embroidery"that is the question," all the rest are pretexts.

Mrs. Clarke says the only undressing you did was to loosen your shoe-laces!" "Don't you seeI know you better than you do yourself.

Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers.

" "So are we like to be crushed 'twixt hammer and anvil," quoth Sir Hacon, tightening the lacing of his battered casque.

Then, as I stared at him, still unready and speechless, the light died out of his eyes, his lips relaxed, and his hand went up to arrange the lace at his throat.

"I'll knit lace for them, and they'll look real dressy; toilet soap, sponge and nailbrushthat's for your bath, George; you haven't been taking them as often as you should, or the hoops wouldn't have come off your tub.

He found her turning over some lace in a cardboard box.

The liveries are all plain: gold or silver being forbidden to be worn within the walls, the habits are all obliged to be black, but they wear exceeding fine lace and linen; and in their country-houses, which are generally in the faubuurg, they dress very rich, and have extreme fine jewels.

In vain I pour my shower of roses, On which the matchless fair one dozes, And plant around her conch the graces, While jealous Venus breaks her laces, To see a younger face promoted, To see her own old face out-voted; And myrtle branches twisting o'er her, Bow down, each turn'd a true adorer.