"Gowned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little incongruous that the simple, unlettered Irishman should have found his way into the brilliant, many-countried company, where were men who made history and held the fate of nations in their hands and built or crumbled empires, and women to match, regally gowned, keen of ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... exquisitely gowned and radiating magnetism, was again trying to persuade Senator Blair ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... man, or for a masculine saint? And why is it so in the case of commonplace cities, commercial cities, and ugly, sordid cities? It is not difficult to understand why a beautiful, sparkling city, like Washington or Paris, suggests a handsome woman, richly gowned and bedecked with jewels, but it is hard to understand why some other cities, far less pleasing, seem somehow to be stamped with the qualities of woman-nature rather than man-nature. Is it perhaps because the nature of all cities is so complicated? Is it because they are ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... myself that she was even more beautiful than she had appeared on the train. She was gowned in a white linen skirt and white "middy," with white tennis shoes and white stockings. Her dress was most unsuitable for the winter day, although the house was warm, but with another flash of remembrance of my own past privations, I realized the reason for her attire. This ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... for work, and grappled with the world Bent on escaping deg.: deg.46 "What's in the scroll," quoth he, "thou keepest furled? Show me their shaping, deg. deg.48 Theirs who most studied man, the bard and sage,— Give!"—So, he gowned him, 50 Straight got by heart that book to its last page: Learned, we found him. Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead, Accents uncertain: "Time to taste life," another would have said, "Up with the curtain!" This man said ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning |
