"Decollete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frigate that was sent to Gravesend. He described an evening entertainment most vividly. He had been to a ball at an "English Pasha's in Blackwall," and had succeeded wonderfully with some charming English ladies excessively "decollete," upon whom he felt sure he had left a lasting impression, as several had fallen in love with him on the spot, supposing him to be ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... her element in the midst of this excessively decollete society; but Philippe gave her in charge of Mariette, and that monitress did not allow the widow—whose mourning was diversified with a few amusements—to commit ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... ballet, and where bald-headed clergyman, and white-haired mothers in Israel clapped and encored. One fair forsaken dame, whose indignant spouse was seeking a divorce, came to the footlights in an artistic garment so decollete that a man sitting behind me whispered to his friend: 'What pictures does she suggest to you? "Phryne before the Judges"—or Long's "Thisbe?" She languorously waved a floral fan of crimson carnations, and recited with all of Siddons' grace and Rachel's fire selections from a book ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... sec., 67; appointed State temp, agent, 68; delegate to Syracuse Temp. Con., 69; tries to speak but silenced, sees work for women, 70; appeals to mothers and declares for wom. suff., 71; resolves to attend State Teachers' Con., objects to decollete dress, sec. Syracuse W. R. Con., 72; urges women to speak louder, 75; shows up young ministers, 76; fine voice, 77; convinced of great need of wom. suff., losing interest in temp. work, arranges ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... belief that a decollete corsage is a tyrannous necessity of evening dress, a woman not graciously endowed with a beautifully modelled throat and shoulders may, with perfect propriety, conceal her infelicitous lines from the derisive gaze of ...
— What Dress Makes of Us • Dorothy Quigley
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