 | Alice Morse Earle - Clothing and dress - 1903 - 496 pages
...apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his hand which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-band ; his stature was of... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - Clothing and dress - 1903 - 496 pages
...country tailor. His linen was plain and not very clean, and I rernemher a speck or two of blood upon his band which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-hand ; his stature was of good size ; his sword stuck close to his side." Lowell has written of... | |
 | George Nelson Godwin - Basing House, Hampshire, England - 1904 - 462 pages
...it was a plain cloth suit that seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was very plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band (a linen tippet, properly the shirt-collar of those days), which was not much larger than his collar... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - Great Britain - 1905 - 376 pages
...fellow-members at the time, Sir Philip Warwick gives this description: " I came into the House one morning, well clad; and perceived a gentleman speaking,...his sword stuck close to his side : his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable, and his eloquence full of fervour. For the subject-matter... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - World history - 1905 - 410 pages
...: " He was dressed in a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember...His hat was without a hat-band; his stature was of good size; his sword stuck close to his side; his countenance swollen and reddish; his voice sharp... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 pages
...different. Our author very likely could see nothing in plain Cromwell, " with his linen not very clean, a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar," as Sir Philip Warwick describes him, but perceived every virtue breathing from robes of state and gold... | |
 | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - 1907 - 152 pages
...Cavalier, hearing him speak in Parliament, wrote of him as he saw him. "He was dressed," he says, "in a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made...remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, 1 which was not much larger 1 The "little band" was the band of white linen seen in Oliver's portrait... | |
 | Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remembered a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which...much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hat -band; his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen... | |
 | Michael Russell - Great Britain - 1910 - 296 pages
...to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain and not very M. of H.— XXIII— 4 clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon...his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subject-matter... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Ethnology - 1910 - 478 pages
...ordinarily appareled; for it was a plain suit which seemed to have beeti made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain and not. very clean, and I remember a speck of blood upon his hand; his stature was of a good size; his countenance swollen and reddish; hisvoice... | |
| |
I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very... 
