The orchestra of yellow
silk women and bald-headed men gave vent to a few bars of anticipatory music and a girl, in a pink dress with short skirts, galloped upon the stage.
I fully intended to tell you that we did not wish to buy any
silks to-day, and I also intended to tell you that we yearned to go immediately to the palace of the Louvre, but enjoying the happiness of seeing you devour four breakfasts this morning has so filled me with pleasurable emotions that I neglect the commonest interests of the time.
"These white muslins and pretty
silks will keep for years, so I should lay them by till they are needed.
Sola motioned me to be seated upon a pile of
silks near the center of the room, and, turning, made a peculiar hissing sound, as though signaling to someone in an adjoining room.
For example, there may be a deposition of dew upon the
silk, to the extent, even, of several hundred pounds ; ballast has then to be thrown out, or the machine may descend.
She lets this pass, perhaps without hearing it, for solicitude about her
silk has hurried her to the wardrobe where it hangs.
The Hazel-nut child flew through the air on the stork's back, and when he wanted to rest he bound his
silk cord on to the joint of the bird's other wing, so that it could not fly any farther.
Clad in blue
silk and bright embroidery At the first call of Spring the fair young bride, On whom as yet Sorrow has laid no scar, Climbs the Kingfisher's Tower.
My
silk sacque isn't a bit the fashion, and my bonnet doesn't look like Sallie's.
He also provided himself with three thoroughly tested iron anchors, and a light but strong
silk ladder fifty feet in length.
Their envy did not, however, display itself openly, till poor Jenny, to the surprize of everybody, and to the vexation of all the young women in these parts, had publickly shone forth on a Sunday in a new
silk gown, with a laced cap, and other proper appendages to these.
The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green
silk gown, entered the room.