Dresses

Examples

• Similarly, it might be said that the dress was the Queen of Dresses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I was struck, on entering the drawing-room, by the curious contrast, rather in material than in colour, of the dresses which they now wore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Their female costume became astonishingly modern in style; their women wore corsets and flounced dresses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is your last box of Doucet dresses a failure, or did Judy rook you out of everything at bridge last night? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They wear it in their hair, and on their ball-dresses, and even (so she tells me) are presented at Court with it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Stultze brought home our dresses himself in his tilbury, on the morning of the masquerade, being anxious that we should do him credit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Where is the use of having a lot of dresses when she isn't out yet? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I assure you nothing remains unpaid for, but the few dresses I have lately had: all the rest is settled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Her mamma ordered her dresses, her books, her bonnets, and her ideas for her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of course, they will excuse our travelling dresses. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The women here are as amusing as those in May Fair, she told an old London friend who met her, only, their dresses are not quite so fresh. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And there Meg sat, to 'rest and read', which meant to yawn and imagine what pretty summer dresses she would get with her salary. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The pretty dresses of the maids lost their subtler day colours and showed more or less of a misty white. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• So, my dresses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But the fun is, godmother, how I make the great ladies try my dresses on. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If wounded, the surgeon dresses his mangled limb with rubber bandages, and when he gets well he has a rubber cushion on the end of his crutch, or on the foot of his artificial leg. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In countries where masquerades are common, it is a trade to let out masquerade dresses for a night. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But you have admired many finer dresses this very day; and is it not natural that I wish I could give them to you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And their dresses are strange beyond all description. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Well, perhaps they wear new ball-dresses at home; but at any rate Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle won't. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• One morning, Mrs. Bretton, coming promptly into my room, desired me to open my drawers and show her my dresses; which I did, without a word. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It blushed so ruddily and vividly, that the hues of the walls and the variegated tints of the dresses seemed all fused in one warm glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Solomon Lucas, the Jew in the High Street, has thousands of fancy-dresses. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• With the view Sergeant Cuff took of the loss of the Diamond, he would be sure to end in examining our linen and our dresses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Molly didn't care for the bridesmaids' dresses. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He dresses better than any of us, I think, and is daintily polite. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He dresses at that gentleman (by whom he is patronized), talks at him, walks at him, founds himself entirely on him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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