"Well-dressed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not pretty, she was well-dressed; and if she was overeducated, she seemed capable, as Strefford had suggested, of carrying off even this crowning disadvantage. At any rate, she was above disguising it; and before the whole party had been seated five minutes in front of a fresh supply of ices (with Eldorada and the secretaries ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... that she had not a tooth in her head, and also that she made repeated anxious requests of the conductor, catching him by the coat-skirts as he passed, to "let her know in season when they began to get into Bartley;" who asked, confidentially, of her next neighbor, a well-dressed elderly gentleman, if "he didn't think it was about as cheap comin' by the cars as it would ha' ben to hire a passage any other way?" and innocently endured the smile that her query called forth on half a dozen faces about her. The gentleman, without a smile, courteously lowered ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... the usual woman, and slender. She was exceedingly well-dressed; smartly, becomingly; a jaunty little hat of strangely twisted straw, with an aigrette springing defiantly from it; a jacket covered with mazes and labyrinths of embroidery; at her throat a big knot of white lace, the ends ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various
... eating-house, but its guests were well-dressed, and the ragged boy at once attracted ...
— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger
... well-dressed, well-groomed, walked in through the open door. With a certain amount of care—customary enough in him to hide the obvious—he laid his silk hat, brim upwards, upon the table, pulled off his gloves, threw them carelessly into ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
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