 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...about eighty years ago. There WHS a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, halfrotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword — in a waistcoat which h:ul once been rich with gold-hice,... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...about eighty years ago. There w;is a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, halfrotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword — in a waistcoat which hnd once been rich with gold-lace,... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...against the wall, in which we found, half-rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dre*s, such аз might have been worn eighty or a hundred years ago...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword — in a waistcoat which liad once been rich with gold-lace,... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...we found, half-rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's di-e.^s, Mich as might have Ьеен worn eighty or a hundred years ago by a gentleman...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword — in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace,... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 878 pages
...There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, half-rotted away, old-fasliioned articles of a man's dress, such as might have been...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword — in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1864 - 378 pages
...about eighty years ago. There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, halfrotted away> old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet 'worn in courtdresses— a handsome court sword— in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace, but... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 396 pages
...about eighty years ago. There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, half-rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses—a handsome court-sword—in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace, but... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1874 - 216 pages
...examined this place; it still retained some mouldering furniture, — three chairs, an oak settee, a table, — all of the fashion of about eighty years...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses, a handsome court-sword; in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace, but... | |
 | Charles Casey - Pyramids - 1876 - 634 pages
...about eighty years ago. There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, half-rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses, a handsome court sword ; in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace, but... | |
 | Magdalen School (University of Oxford) - Private schools - 1880 - 540 pages
...about eighty years ago. There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, half-rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such...steel buckles and buttons, like those yet worn in court-dresses — a handsome court sword : in a waistcoat which had once been rich with gold-lace,... | |
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There was a chest of drawers against the wall, in which we found, half -rotted away, old-fashioned articles of a man's dress, such as might have been worn eighty or a hundred years ago by a gentleman of some rank — costly steel buckles and buttons,... 
