"Overdressed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a fine car drew up, and a stout, overdressed, full-bearded man alighted and was shown into the room where I awaited him with ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... to all these people whose lives I can picture around me. Two women sit cackling beside me on the bench: they are at once guileless and bad, with their mania for eternally wagging tongues that know no rest. A little farther on, a good housewife is shaking her troublesome child; a stout, overdressed woman of the shop-keeping class is flaunting her finery down one of the walks; a priest passes and, while his lips mumble prayers, his eyes, held in leash by fear, prowl around me; one of his flock curtseys to the ground as ...
— The Choice of Life • Georgette Leblanc
... the house, flung down her bag of books, and ran upstairs to the drawing-room. The next moment she found herself in the firm embrace of a girl a little taller than herself, a slim, very pretty, very untidy, very overdressed girl. ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade
... to town hoping to find her, and wrote to the post-office. By some chance—perhaps to get a letter from Giles—she went there. A week afterwards my landlady said a young woman had called on me. "A lady?" said I. "Not at all, an overdressed young woman." It was Molly, who called again. I went to her poor lodgings, she fenced my questions, said she meant to go back to her mother's. Pressing her as to how she lived, she said she had the ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous
... and overdressed, with a pasty complexion and eyes like a fish, in which was a lack of all moral sense. She hurried after the girl and took her by the shoulder just as she reached the top of the stairs that led down ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill |
