"Undress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... matrons who had never been seen twice in the same dress, waist, or skirt, although they had lived in the hotel for more than five weeks. Of one woman she informed me that she could afford to wear a new gown every hour in the year, but that she was "too big a slob to dress up and too lazy to undress even when she went to bed"; of another, that she would owe her grocer and butcher rather than go to the country with less than ten big trunks full of duds; of a third, that she was repeatedly threatening to leave the hotel because its bills ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... of fine cloth, a good hat and wig, and fine linen. Everybody is well clothed here, and even the beggars don't make so ragged an appearance as they do elsewhere." After our friend, the man of quality, has had his morning or undress walk in the Mall, he goes home to dress, and then saunters to some coffee-house or chocolate-house frequented by the persons he would see. "For 'tis a rule with the English to go once a day at least to houses of this sort, where they talk ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... that he turned back to Miss Sally. "Take the directions on Sleeping Cars," he said. "For that one thing alone the book is worth its price to anyone going to travel by rail. It gives full instructions how much to give the porter, how to choose a berth, how to undress in an upper berth without damage to the traveler or the car, et cetery. And, when you consider that that is but one of the ten thousand and one things mentioned in this volume, you can see that it is really giving it away when I sell ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler
... And as plump, ay, as any princess of the blood, Carved in stone, but a good imitation of wood: With her vest all in plaits, like some ancient costume, But or Roman or Grecian, I'm loth to presume, So I cannot be poz yet I blush to confess, That her limbs are shown off in a little undress; Whilst the goddess herself, en bon point as she is, With her curls a la Grecque, and but little chemise, Is so plump and so round, my dear sir, it is plain, She must bring the ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... was wakeful after she had gone to bed. Her husband also seemed inclined to prolong the night, for he made no move to undress. ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf
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