 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1807 - 692 pages
...for) by the little trade of the place : had delicacy enough to wish not to be detected , she satin a white mask, and a white dress, and was known by the name of The White Milliner. Pennant. vaults and arcades, excited the wonder of the ignorant, and the applause of the skilful ;... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - London (England) - 1813 - 534 pages
...few days (till she was known, and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place: having delicacy enough to wish not to be detected, she sat...white dress, and was known by the name of the White Widow.f THIS exchange has long since given way to a row of good houses, with an uniform front, engraved... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1815 - 920 pages
...a few days (till she was known and otherwise provided for) by the litlle trade of '.he place: lin<l delicacy enough to wish not to be detected ; she sat in a white mask, and a white dres», and was known by the name of the The White MiU'mcr.-rPtnnaHt. gaiety, which, in spite of the... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...herself for a few days (till she was known and otherwise provided for) by the litile trade of the place: had delicacy enough to wish not to be detected ; she sat in a white mask, and a white drcin, aad was known by the uame of the The Wliile Milliner. — Pipiiatt. gaiely, which, in spite... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...vender of caps, ribands, &c. until she was discovered, and otherwise provided for. She used to wear a white mask and a white dress, and was known by the name of the White Milliner. DOILEY'S WAREHOUSE. Few shops in the metropolis have acquired so much fame as Doiley's warehouse, celebrated... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...Yard, in the Strand, thus relates the anecdote : " Above stairs sat in the character of a milliner, Jhe reduced Duchess of Tyrconnel, wife of Richard Talbot,...In the year 1708 we find the Duchess of Tyrconnel at Brussels, where she was visited by her brother-in-law, the great Duke of Marlborough. He seems to... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 pages
...boxes miserably thin, the second tier beggarly, and the rest of the house utterly empty. this place. She sat in a white mask and a white dress, and was known by the name of the White Milliner. Vestris, of course, acts the Milliner. PANORAMA, LEICESTER SQUARE, ST. JEAN D'AcRE; THE BOMBARDMENT.... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...for a few days (till she was known, and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place : had delicacy enough to wish not to be detected : she...white dress, and was known by the name of the White Widow." A portion of her husband's confiscated estates was restored to her by the Crown, and she spent... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1847 - 180 pages
...and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place : having delicacy enough not to wish to be detected, she sat in a white mask, and a white dress, and was known by the name of the -white widow." This story, if true, forms a singular contrast to that which Pepys relates of her in his Diary,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1847 - 178 pages
...and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place : having delicacy enough not to wish to be detected, she sat in a white mask, and a white dress, and was known by the name.- of the white widow." This story, if true, forms a singular contrast to that which Pepys relates of her in his Diary,... | |
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A female, suspected to have been his duchess, after his death, supported herself for a few days (till she was known and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place ; but had delicacy enough to wish not to be detected. She sat in a white... 
