"Moire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flashing black eyes-an expression of melancholy in which at short intervals we read her thoughts-an incessant playing of those long dark eyelashes, that clothes her charms with an irresistible, a soul-inspiring seductiveness. Her dress, of moire antique, is chasteness itself; her bust exquisite symmetry; it heaves as softly as if touched by some gentle zephyr. From an Haidean brow falls and floats undulating over her marble-like shoulders, the massive folds of her glossy black hair. Nature had indeed been lavish of ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams
... is swept to the clean sheen of a strip of moire, this splendid desolation blocked on each side by crowds half the ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various |
