| 单词 | furbelow |
| 例句 | “Eh—what? Oh, get along, girl, get along. I’ve no time for such frills and furbelows.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Three exceptional designers took masculine tailoring as a base for a new female elegance that owes nothing to frills and furbelows. Fashion Review: C?line?s Phoebe Philo Designs for a Balanced Life 2012-03-04T19:29:41Z But would Charles Frederick Worth, whose Edwardian gowns still resonate as famous fashion images, recognize his aesthetic in the bouncy-skirted bustiers opening like an oyster to show even more frills and furbelows inside? Special Report: Haute Couture: Carven, Worth and Olivier Saillard 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z Expect frills and furbelows, but don’t rule out surprise entirely. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Preview: Day 2 2014-02-07T10:45:41Z Girly frills and furbelows, fringes and flat taffeta roses contrasted with mannish tailoring. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z Gone are the early flowers and furbelows in favor of a stark background on which the figure of Queen Elizabeth II is silhouetted in an admiral’s black boat cloak. Exhibit on Cecil Beaton and the British Royal Image 2012-02-10T11:05:27Z “So in her designs, she borrowed the ease, comfort and muted palette of men’s clothes to create a style of pared-down elegance for women that liberated them from furbelows and froufrou confections.” Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z Onstage, the chorus cavorted in satins, sequins, frills, and furbelows, each outfit more marvellous than the last. When did we stop getting dressed up for the theatre? 2011-03-31T14:46:41Z The tantalizing close-ups of tulle, feathers and other furbelows cry out for an edition with paper dolls. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Modern elements temper the fussiness of frills and furbelows while showcasing their features, and allow you to create personal spaces that aren’t stuck in a single style. Mixing traditional, contemporary decor creates sophisticated, artsy style 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Daley described how Yankee Stadium would be dressed up for the day with “extra flourishes and furbelows.” First, the Yankees Played the Indians. Then World War ll Took the Field. 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.” A 6-year-old charms the National Spelling Bee before getting eliminated 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Streep was troubled by “all the furbelows and giggles of the social Wendy that I knew.” Four Plays About Women 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z All her light sails were set, and she was furnished forth with all her frills and furbelows, so that there was no place where she could carry another stitch. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z It was an affair of many flounces and furbelows, the colour nankeen and ivory, the material very fine silk with a profusion of Mechlin lace. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z So let's settle down to a campaign of revenge, without any furbelows. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Emancipated from trains and furbelows, you could now really move about in the country without much discomfort. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z IV The iridescent vibrations of midsummer light Dancing, dancing, suddenly flickering and quivering Like little feet or the movement of quick hands clapping, Or the rustle of furbelows or the clash of polished gems. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z The busy sempstresses plied their needles with double speed; and various were the flounces and furbelows, pinkings and quiltings, they invented. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The lady was huddled up in a corner--an odd heap of laces, silks, and furbelows, but with never a voice in all the confusion. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z The hardy phlox sways to some garments' flow; The salvia there with sudden scarlet streams, Caught from some ribbon of some throat that gleams, Petunia fair, in flounce and furbelow. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The girls had shaken out their furbelows, and now came down smiling and preening not a little. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z When he at last rebels and privily snips off his hair and rends his sashes and furbelows, she weeps, not because of the loss of material, but because of the loss of an ideal. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z After a time, a man gets tired of the frills and furbelows, sells the leader to break some other fellow's neck, and settles down. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z A parcel of girls in my windjammer with their frills and furbelows—I never heard of such a thing! The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z They are cold slim sexless; the physique’s not generous, not abundant; it’s only the drapery, the skirts and furbelows—that is, I mean in the young lady who has her mother—that are abundant. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Suppose we stick to plain white, daughter, and skip the furbelows. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z I swore I hadn't four marks a year, and I've my fellowship for telling the furbelow. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z How are all these frocks and furbelows going to be paid for?” Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z In a truly good high school, of all places, a student must do or die, and there is no time here to be wasted on thoughts of frills and furbelows. Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl 2011-08-10T02:00:14.783Z On the lake the swans swam, pluming their feathers; there were children there in their ribbons and furbelows. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z “I did not dream that we could spare money for furbelows, but mother insists that I shall have it.” Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z I invited that furbelow widow to stay on purpose to spare me this almost t�te-�-t�te meeting. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z If the truth were told, Uncle Joe did not agree to the making of all these “frocks and furbelows” for Hannah’s Car’lyn without the filing of some objections. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z "Then why, in the name of common sense, did you gaze so earnestly at the furbelow lady herself?" The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:14.900Z The girls, in their fresh frocks and furbelows, hastened over to the schoolhouse, followed more leisurely by their escorts. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z Helen and Jennie had not forgotten their idea of dressing their guide in some of their furbelows. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z The male eye is not quick in detecting the subtleties of lace and chiffon, the values of furs and furbelows. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z I have shaken out all her furbelows and tried to fold them again as well as I could, but I fear that the gowns with trains were a little too difficult for me. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z She talked as familiarly of an emergency brake and a steering wheel, of horse power and speed-transmission, as most girls talk of frills and furbelows. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z For he who has not folded in his arms A skeleton, nor fed on graveyard charms, Recks not of furbelow, or paint, or scent, When Horror comes the way that Beauty went. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z But she was 130 fiercely independent, and to suggest that she accept the college girls’ frocks and furbelows as gifts would have angered her. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z “I have an idea!” said Neale, wickedly, “that we ought to have an auto truck trailing us with all the furbelows and what-nots you girls will think it necessary to carry.” The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z "She is so busy all day with her flounces and her furbelows, that she has no time to think of her work." Amy Herbert 2011-05-20T02:00:31.467Z And they strutted along as though they quite well knew they had on their very best furbelows. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z I had the oddest dream last night of the Duchess of Burgundy; methought the furbelows of her gown were pinned up so high behind, that I could not see her head for her tail. The Inconstant 2011-04-27T02:00:21.193Z Suppose his ambition had been to furbelow one such as these, could he have given himself to the lure of making good on his own—faithfully have followed Fate’s finger to rainbow’s end? Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z "You're over fond of finery, Nan, Dresses and furbelows," he began. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z But it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and furbelows of the old order. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z Amongst the most frequent visitors was Lady Cardigan in gayest attire, and usually accompanied by a much-beribboned poodle, the colour of whose furbelows matched her own. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z The men sharpened their wits, and the women freshened their furbelows. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The invention of the sewing machine was the signal for the appearance of frills and furbelows, and meretricious ornament of every kind. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z They had no curls and furbelows to arrange, and ran all about the place before dinner time. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway She looked all flowers and furbelows—all ribbons and laces. Love Works Wonders A Novel "Why," he cried, setting his gloved hands on either hip, "it is Margot—my wife Margot, with another retinue of silks and furbelows!" The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion It was often decorated with engraved furbelows or embossed with political or other symbols depending on the preference of the owner and the fashion of the period. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology The ladies would pass by in pearl necklaces, flowered stomachers, artificial nosegays, and shaded furbelows: one is noted by her muff, one by her tippet, one by her fan. English Costume How they laughed and talked, and squabbled, and flirted, constant to their high heels, their rouge, and their furbelows, to their old liaisons, their polished sarcasms, their cherished rivalries! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. But just then the train steamed into Siliguri station, and I had to leave my friend and his pleasant tales of frills and furbelows and plunge into war, bloody war. To Lhassa at Last Your grandmother was dressed in a lilac silk gown of rather antiquated fashion, adorned with frills and furbelows which had passed out of date. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 "She has no furbelows in face nor dress that I can see," answered the doctor. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Ichabod, who had been brave for three days, now began to be afraid of this influx of feminine furbelows—this show of skirts. When the Cock Crows There are no lappets, fringes, furbelows, and tawdry ornaments; no trains, turbans, and flounces, fluttering about my cheese and butter. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales The child can acquire the habit of being more comfortable in plain, washable, clean clothes, with clean hands, than in dirty, ragged furbelows. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency Certainly Mrs. Tomlinson was always dressed in the height of fashion, though it was a very simple fashion when compared with the flounces and furbelows of her neighbors. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches An arabesque of the movement produced by the twinkling colours and iridescence of the frills and furbelows on show; the electric light divides the scene into defined zones. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Presently a little old woman approaches, shriveled and smiling, in her faded furbelows now in rags. The Real Latin Quarter She didn't dare to take the cat Or poodle-dog from off the mat, Lest they should catch their little toes In laces, frills, or furbelows. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 He does not deal in furbelows, dislikes the superfluous and the superficial. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types I am too hard, I s’pose, with the child in sending her off among these primpy city gals, with their flounces and furbelows, with only three plain muslin frocks. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love It was dressed up in all manner of furbelows, but the dress did not look half so fresh and lovely as the doll. The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series The tone is there, feminized and graceful; troupes of stage players in paint and furbelows give startling pictures of rakes and fantastics. Melomaniacs Well, at first it seemed a queer kind of vehicle for you, but as I read on I could see you queening it in all those furbelows of dress as well as adventure and sentiment. Blue-grass and Broadway "There's a great deal too much spent on Elsa and Frances, and all their furbelows," said Geoff, in what he thought a very manly tone. Great Uncle Hoot-Toot The mental juxtaposition of the seedy poet and the piquant actress in her frills and furbelows set the whole café rocking with laughter. Ghetto Comedies Rings glittered on his fingers, and altogether, with his plumes and furbelows, he was precisely the sort of thing Devilshoof and his companions were looking for. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Their jewels, their feathers, their silks and their furbelows would have sunk into utter insignificance beside the exquisite simplicity of attire adopted by the nymphs of the vale on this festive occasion. Typee I must finish this gown, as madam goes to Mrs. Chew's this afternoon, and all these furbelows have to be sewed on. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia For there’s nothing sadder than an antique lady of other days decking herself out in the furbelows of a lost youth. The Prairie Child He had roseate visions of lavish expenditures: a warm coat for the old mother, furbelows for Plutina, “straighteners” even, if she would have them. Heart of the Blue Ridge And, dropping botany, she sighs For some new flounce or furbelow. Too Old for Dolls A Novel The good fairy who had made the frilled toilet-cover was always at work, and her goodwill was manifested in pretty little flounces and furbelows, which gave a sort of old-fashioned grace to the rooms. A Vanished Hand Two days later Madam Wetherill brought her over in the neatest attire, with no furbelows or laces. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia She was typically Italian, and the dark hair, warm, brown skin and large, soft eyes, gave her almost an Oriental expression, in spite of the conventional frills and furbelows in which she was dressed. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Her sister, on the contrary, had been one of those giddy women who follow every frill and furbelow of Fashion, and who take up all the latest crazes with a seriousness worthy of better objects. The Seven Secrets For instance, it belonged to the eighteenth century to invent pretty women—charming dolls—all powder, patches, and perfume, affecting the attractions which they did not possess under their vast hoops and great furbelows. Political Women, Vol. 1 Am I not just a plain Highland lassie, as unskilled in flattering speeches as in furbelows and patches? A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Did you think them filled with frocks and furbelows? Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers “It's easy enough to see that's Silvia's,” said Alexia—“all that finery and furbelows.” Five Little Peppers at School The Torpedo Lieutenant handed his freight of frills and furbelows to the Coxswain's outstretched arms. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions When I had let myself into the street I felt very naughty and festive in my furbelows at such an hour of the morning. The Other Side of the Door Such bonnets, mantles, ruffs, and puffs, Such gowns, and furbelows, and muffs, With chains and ear-rings, watch and broche, And Madam Homespun in her coach: So grand! so stately! who but me? Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes "Then you girls will be thinking more of frills and furbelows than you will of prizes," laughed Harold Day. The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch "Come away, Nelly," said Lubin; "leave her to her fine Miss Folly; let her furnish her head, if she likes it, with fairies, furbelows, and flounces!" The Crown of Success The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow. Mr. Opp Fashion as she, the poetess, extolled it week by week in the National Observer, became a poem with a stately measure in frocks and hats, a flowing rhythm in every frill and furbelow. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties It goes for bonnets, coats and capes, Silks, satins, muslins, velvets, crapes, Shawls, ribbons, furs, and furbelows,— And that's the way the Money goes! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) You must be pretty short of feminine furbelows by this time. How Janice Day Won She wished for her trunk and her pretty furbelows. Marcia Schuyler She was more than pretty to-day, and there was malice aforethought in all the little ribbons and trinkets and furbelows. The Lure of the Mask "Nothing," said Patsy, busy with a best Sunday cap, all lace frills and furbelows. Patsy And who has every day to face a finer round of care Than buying frills and furbelows for little folks to wear? The Path to Home A door under the hangings had opened, giving passage to a dishevelled little head of fair hair, like a mass of vapor amid the laces and furbelows of a royal déshabillé. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) It was a brown stuff, worn threadbare, too short for the fashion, and without any of the flounces and furbelows then common. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) For beneath her furbelows and ribbons and trinkets she was inordinately happy and light of heart. The Lure of the Mask Elfie was beautifully gowned in a morning dress, with an over-abundance of trimmings and all the furbelows that generally accompany the extravagant raiment affected by women of her type. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life With Miss Carr arrived a cart-load of boxes containing bride and bridesmaids’ dresses, feathers and furbelows of all descriptions, and a number of presents from acquaintances in London. Sisters Three I should hate a fashionable wedding, and feel that it took away half the solemnity of the service to have one’s thoughts taken up with dress and furbelows. More About Peggy Little use has she for whalebones and furbelows. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 What eyes, to spy out a likeness under all the flour and furbelows, not to mention the green spectacles! Prudy Keeping House He has made no attempt to furbelow our finances. The Masques of Ottawa Baby is dear and sweet enough without the fuss and furbelows of such elaborate garments. The Mother and Her Child Here were several yards of brown and white gingham, quite enough for a frock without any furbelows. A Little Girl in Old Salem Nay, oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The ladies' cabin has generally a large cheval glass and a piano, with a white lady to wait, who is always decked out in flounces and furbelows, and usually good-looking. Canada and the Canadians Volume I Some people look on nature with a milliner's or a mantua-maker's eye—arraying her in furbelows and flounces. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 "You don't seem to me to have enough furbelows and things round your neck to keep you warm," continued he; "let me tie it up tighter, somehow." The Farringdons Petals of the pansy for little velvet shoon, Silk of the poppy for a dance beneath the moon, Lawn of the jessamine, damask of the rose, To make their pretty kirtles and airy furbelows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Gone were the gay companions; closed the tight compartments and stowed away under armour were all her furbelows and frills. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Custom would bring them as much in fashion as furbelows, and practice would make us as valiant as e'er a hero of them all; the resolution is in the mind. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The minister was there, and what was more, his wife and daughters too; they were far grander than he was, and wore silken furbelows and fringed shawls. A Dozen Ways Of Love How ridiculous that one should suffer from want of a frill or a furbelow! The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future So, girls, study your costumes, especially the "superfluities," or "furbelows," as they are wont to be called; make yourselves look as pretty as you possibly can—and then forget yourselves. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside We should likewise be cautious to adapt the matter of our discourse to our company, and not talk Greek before ladies, or of the last new furbelow to a meeting of country justices. Talks on Talking Every chair and table seemed littered with frocks and furbelows. The Second Honeymoon She had taken off her furbelows, and was in her nightgown. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 Here, gals, I reckon this will be enough to pay for all the furbelows you've bought or will want to buy. Tempest and Sunshine It needed but Lady Prue with her flounces and furbelows and Sir Pertinax with his cane and buckled shoon to re-create the ancient world before good Queen Anne had gone to her rest. The Half-Hearted Why, Great Snipes, man! he isn't in it a little bit for the social frills and furbelows; he never was. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush She had discarded frills and furbelows and wore a warm gray wrapper. The Gay Cockade That's how it is, and how it must be, till women take down some of their furbelows and live real, and keep house, and take old-fashioned comfort in it. The Other Girls He would make her his wife, give her all the money, all the furbelows, all the luxuries her heart desired, but he would not pretend something that was not. Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst You may sit with dainty damsels, all hoops and furbelows, eating custards at the Bun-house; you may wander among the rare plants of the Botanic Gardens. In Luck at Last October, in all her gorgeous furbelows, sat upon her throne. The Grey Cloak The costume is simple and plain,—close-fitting upper garments, without fuss of furbelow, and plain close skirts, met at the ankles by high buttoned boots. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 Their linen jackets are double bordered with it, both at top and bottom, with four or five ruffles or furbelows hanging down to their knees. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time He contemplated her through half-closed eyes and gave her in fancy the triffing furbelows of a woman of fashion; she would have been beautiful. The Goose Girl A fan was to be mounted; yards of silk gathered into furbelows; breast knots, shoulder knots, sword knots, to be made up. Audrey And had she not a romantic soul, far above furbelows—a soul which had flung itself into the cause of the "heiress," to the point of keeping the child's secret, even from her ladyship? The Mating of Lydia It was an imposing array of sounds; a circulation of ciphers; a marshaling of tappas; a getting together of grimaces and furbelows; a masquerade of vapidities. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The crinolined princess, Margarita, with her spangles and furbelows, is a companion to the Margarita at the Louvre and the one in Vienna. Promenades of an Impressionist Associated words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse. furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle. furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean. Putnam's Word Book The outer tunic was fastened on the shoulders with brooches; it had sleeves over the upper arm, and, in the case of adults but not of young girls, a flounce or furbelow at the bottom. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul There is a time for stately tire, For frills and furbelows, When dainty humours should inspire Such vanities as those; So for stern hours of high intent Behoves a fit habiliment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 9, 1919 Try what he would, the eighteenth century obsessed him; the panier robes and furbelows appeared before his eyes; memories of Boucher's Venus haunted him; recollections of Themidor's romance, of the exquisite Rosette pursued him. Against the Grain The actors are tricked out in the most magnificent feathers and furbelows, but the audience consists of common cats. Gossip in a Library Look what they pay for their silks and satins and kickshaws and silly furbelows! The Wrong Twin Nay oft in dreams invention we bestow To change a flounce or add a furbelow. From Chaucer to Tennyson This disagreeable person was dressed in rich velvets, with many furbelows and laces. The Scarecrow of Oz Hilarion: In my mind's eye, I mean — a blushing bride All bib and tucker, frill and furbelow! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan In the spring Doris bilineata comes to the rocks in thousands, to lay its strange white furbelows of spawn upon their overhanging edges. Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore "Well, I don't know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days." Little Women I think female beauty is like all other human furbelows, and as holler as heaven will be if only the good people are let in! The Conquest of Canaan The mass of plumes and yellow bangs and furbelows on the bench became violently agitated. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they're all you'll get this summer. Anne of Green Gables Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount. The Reef Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess. Daisy Miller On the whole, with her poetic furbelows and her misshapen, intelligent little face, she was, when you knew her, a decidedly interesting woman. The American She was dressed in masses of dirty white furbelows. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise One was a woman of middle age, with a rather grand air and a great many furbelows. Roderick Hudson Our favorite topic today, the frills and furbelows of woman's dress and its reform, held the boards of ancient Athens and Rome145. The Dramatic Values in Plautus A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 These ladies were apparently persons of high fashion; they were dressed with great splendor, and their long silken trains and furbelows were spread over the polished floor. The American Even as he spoke, the door opened and the Duchess swept in, all rustling silks and furbelows, very small, very dignified, and very imperious. The Amateur Gentleman To my mind the young woman is not improved by these furbelows and fal-lals my wife has put upon her. In the Valley I could imagine the stare, the squawk, the rustling furbelows, as madam fled from this grave madman. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Now, you are neither silly nor little; no blonde; you have no curls and no furbelows. Quaint Courtships One met her face to face; there were no frills and furbelows of the spirit. The Gray Dawn My lady smiled as she looked at the festoons and furbelows which met her eyes upon every side. Lady Audley's Secret It was a man's room rather than a woman's, innocent of furbelows and frills. The Far Horizon Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow. The Nest Builder I have seen delicate ladies, attired in Parisian furbelows, lift their dainty skirts, attempt the crossing—and sink in a mass of corruption, full of maggots. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America And if it hadn't been for Dannel, when she was a little chit, where would proud Miss Dolly be, with her feathers and her furbelows? Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War Where all the magnificence came from was a mystery, the splendors of purple and gold, of rich draperies, fine furbelows, shining garments and glittering adornments being really splendid. My Friends at Brook Farm By taste, I do not mean taste in flounces and in furbelows, tunics and stockings; but in the weightier matters of the truly sublime and the essentially ridiculous. Obiter Dicta Well, get ready, girls!" called Mr. Robinson, "Get all your furbelows and fixings together, and we'll go ashore in one of these boats. The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar Kedzie's soul expanded to the ultimate fringe of the farthest furbelow. We Can't Have Everything I was just waiting for you, Betty; you girls take such a long time to put on your capes and furbelows. An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott A "just perfect evening," said more than one girl delightedly, as she set out arrayed in all her furbelows for the birthday party. A Flock of Girls and Boys He admitted their significance, in connection with bonnets and furbelows, and we both went to bed with a sound of marriage-bells in our ears. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch "Even if she does wear too many ribbons and laces and fancy furbelows, with never a common-sense shoe to her foot!" The Boss of Little Arcady Material, too, is bewildering; a light gauze thing of ribbons and furbelows like the Unella is not really a cloak, yet it takes a cloaklike form. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Then there were solemn notes of comparison as to the fit and form of gowns, or the fit of a furbelow, exhaustively discussed, perhaps that very afternoon. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Followed a vision of soft white folds and furbelows and semi-transparencies and purple eyes and a pouting mouth. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations We didn’t relish seein’ her thrown off like an old glove, jest ’cause he was somebody out in the world now, an’ could have his pick of girls with city airs and furbelows. Across the Years Children are frequently dressed like mountebanks, with feathers and furbelows and finery; the boys go bare-legged; the little girls are dressed like women, with their stuck-out petticoats, crinolines, and low dresses! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children She was wonderfully arrayed in an exceedingly youthful costume, short enough to display her thin, elderly ankles, and adorned with many flying ribbands and furbelows. Greifenstein It was a mere simple dressed undress, without feathers, flowers, hoop, or furbelows. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 From Mellicent's own lips Mr. Smith knew now just how hungry a young girl can be for fun and furbelows. Oh, Money! Money! Patty said nothing, but as she glanced at Ethelyn's furbelows she felt thankful she was not going to Paris with Aunt Isabel. Patty in Paris “I like not to increase my borrowings, and especially for female fallals and furbelows.” Janice Meredith And I took her by the arm, and firmly but respectfully led her out of the room, furbelows, gold chains and all. Caesar's Column One or two ironical voices had asked him what he had done with the aristo and her lace furbelows, but it remained at that and Mademoiselle Marny need have no fear. I Will Repay These gowns I wear are yours—these shoon and buckles and silken stockings—these bows of lace and furbelows—this little patch making my rose cheeks rosier—this frost of powder on my hair! The Hidden Children An expert eye, however, would instantly have pierced the secret of this formidable array of plumes and furbelows. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel She was dressed extravagantly: too many furbelows, too many jewels, too many flowers. Half a Rogue I am seventy if I am a day, and look it, and if it were not for these furbelows I would look eighty. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Here am I to take care of her; and you can't deny you'd enjoy fixing her furbelows, and seeing her shine before the footlights, where you used to long to be. Jo's Boys She craves, if not the gaudy furbelows borrowed from rhetoric's wardrobe, at least a vine leaf. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics. Essays and Tales At ten-thirty the procession started; gentlemen in their tiles, ladies in their furbelows, children stiffly starched. Half a Rogue Her freshly donned robe of blue silk, edged with a foam of snowy laces and furbelows, set off her tall figure. The Golden Dog Nothing queerer could be imagined than all these charming fashions and finery of the frivolous century of Louis XV., these Watteau shepherdess costumes, furbelows, plumes and laces, upon these black, ugly-faced, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, frightful people. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo It was a mass of frills, furbelows, fringes, and flutings of rare hue and form, making a series of wonderful contrasts. Caught in the Net The ladies' furbelows are blurred against the foliage, and the lilac-bushes loom through the air as though they were white clouds full of rain. Yet Again "Were it not well to put on a few furbelows and a tucker?" queried the old man. Thankful Blossom Beau Nash stood at the door of the rooms, smiling blandly upon a dainty throng in the pink of its finery and gay furbelows. Monsieur Beaucaire Perhaps this is the heavy price which society exacts for our furbelows, our titles, and our children. Letters of Two Brides Their jewels, their feathers, their silks, and their furbelows, would have sunk into utter insignificance beside the exquisite simplicity of attire adopted by the nymphs of the vale on this festive occasion. Typee Splendid in far-reaching furbelows, that kind lady holds out both her hands, beaming encouragement. Yet Again "One hundred years ago, and something more, In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at her tavern door, Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose, Stood Mistress Stavers in her furbelows." An Old Town By the Sea Greater than ever was her love of the fine furbelows that were hers to flaunt in, and sharper her appetite for the fine hot dishes, and more tempestuous her scolding of Betty, poor maid. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Mrs. Wheeler did not in the least approve of furbelows for children. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories Miss Katie read of functions and furbelows, but she kept a vigilant ear for outside sounds and a frequent eye upon the clock over the mantel. Roads of Destiny They were learned in the frills and furbelows of things. Yet Again Though he came there to answer for his life, he was all ribbons and furbelows. A Book of Scoundrels Mistress Clorinda, clad in highest town fashion, in brocades and silver lace and splendid furbelows, stepped forth from the chariot with the air of a queen. A Lady of Quality Her petticoats gave forth a creaking noise,—so much did the silk and the furbelows abound. Sons of the Soil Let him who starves to buy the food For his soul's comfort find her good, Nor chide the frills and furbelows That are the prettiest things she knows. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets Look your last before I go to don my fine lady’s furbelows.” A Lady of Quality Sit down and talk to me, and I will show thee my furbelows myself. A Lady of Quality |
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