"Ruche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ceux que j'aime, Frres, parents, amis, et mes ennemis mme Dans le mal triomphants, De jamais voir, Seigneur, l't sans fleurs vermeilles, La cage sans oiseaux, la ruche sans abeilles, La maison ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... mourning dress of a woman for parent, sister, brother, or child is the same as that worn by a widow, save the white bonnet ruche—the unmistakable mark ...
— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green
... cervical, scruff, atlas, axis, palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, decollete, jugular, jugulum, wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche, colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... out upon it. Then she laid daring fingers on Cousin Mehitable's bonnet. It was a temptation to know what she would look like if she should grow up to be a widow and have to wear an imposing head-gear like that with a white ruche in front and a long black veil floating down behind. The next instant she was tying the strings under ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... marriage mirage, though I don't think anybody would think of calling him at all green. He never stopped coming to see me occasionally, and Mr. Carter liked him. He was the first man to notice the white ruche I sewed in the neck of my old black taffeta four or five months ago and he let me see that he noticed it out of the corner of his eyes even right there in church, under Aunt Adeline's very elbow. He makes love unconsciously and he flirts with his ...
— The Melting of Molly • Maria Thompson Daviess
... Countess Nathalie gentle severity was the key-note of my composition,—heavy black silk, of course. There it lies. Elegance and dignity in the train. Happy surprises in the drapery. Fascination in the sleeves. Defiance, pride, and patriotism in the high collar, tempered by regret in the soft ruche.... She would have been a problem and a poem; while I, in my cheerful reds, my dazzling white, my decisive short skirts, my piquant shoes, my audacious apron, am a conundrum, a pleasantry, an epigram." This ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various |
