 That day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a Mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads; her Train was very long, the end of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar...  Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of ... - Page 389by Richard Warner - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long ; and her stature...stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging. The day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle... | |
 | England - 1848 - 670 pages
...necklace of exi-eeding fine jewels. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls, uf the size of beans, and over it, a mantle of black silk, sliot with silver threads, — her train was very long, the end of it borne fay a marchioness ; as... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 492 pages
...all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a neeklaee of exeeeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 05, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses... | |
 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 65, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses... | |
 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...all the English ladies have it till they marry; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 65, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses;... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1851 - 224 pages
...the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine j ewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature...and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1851 - 826 pages
...all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels. Her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature...bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mautle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 908 pages
...her fingers long; and her statore neither tall nor low ; her air was stately ; her manner of ypeaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white...over it a mantle, of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. Instead of a chain, she had... | |
 | 1853 - 418 pages
...narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar.) her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor...and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads : her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain, she had... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...all the English ladies have till they inarry." She was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls the size of beans ; and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; and instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. Needles and pins were... | |
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