"You've put on considerable many
frills since I been away.
Tiggy-winkle ironed it, and goffered it, and shook out the
frills.
Of course, I am referring only to these accursed gewgaws, to these
frills and fripperies!
Rupert's Cavaliers were every bit as particular about their lace collars and
frills as the lady whose pretty limbs once warmed this cambric.
But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones, with
frills around the neck, that's one consolation."
Every stitch in it was handwork; and the little
frills of lace at neck and sleeves were of real Valenciennes.
Broad-brimmed white hats and Panamas, blue-cotton trousers, light-colored stockings, cambric
frills, were all here displayed; while upon shirt-fronts, wristbands, and neckties, upon every finger, even upon the very ears, they wore an assortment of rings, shirt-pins, brooches, and trinkets, of which the value only equaled the execrable taste.
(on the Christmas cards), with their curly hair and natty hats, their well-shaped legs incased in smalls, their dainty Hessian boots, their ruffling
frills, their canes and dangling seals.
(and the dirge of the elaborate black cap) from the day when she called witchcraft to her aid and made it out of snow-flakes, and the dear worn hands that washed it tenderly in a basin, and the starching of it, and the finger-iron for its exquisite
frills that looked like curls of sugar, and the sweet bands with which it tied beneath the chin!
It is a very noticeable thing that, in fairy families, the youngest is always chief person, and usually becomes a prince or princess; and children remember this, and think it must be so among humans also, and that is why they are often made uneasy when they come upon their mother furtively putting new
frills on the basinette.
It is a very noticeable thing that, in fairy families, the youngest is always chief person, and usually becomes a prince or princess, and children remember this, and think it must be so among humans also, and that is why they are often made uneasy when they come upon their mother furtively putting new
frills on the basinette.
"Is that the dress you're going to wear tonight?" asked Gilbert, looking down at the fluffs and
frills.