| English secretary - 1772 - 268 pages
...Silver Shoulder-knots, and Point d'Efpagne Hats. Mrs. Macnamara's Perfon, entirely a la Pompadour, from the Crown of her Head to the Sole of her Foot. Her Air, Manners, Tafte, Converfation, and Deportment, elaborately finifhed after the fame fafhionable... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1854 - 338 pages
...drowned in their Cloathes, or buryed in earth with their Cloathes, but that she had comly garments from the Crown of her head to the sole of her foot, many being present with her husband can testifie and if any be pleased to reproach me behind my back,... | |
| Mary White (novelist.) - 1824 - 688 pages
...ruminating on this, when the footman came to Beatrice for the key of the back shrubbery gate. She coloured from the " crown of her head to the sole of her foot," and said, she would look for it, but she was fearful she had lost it. The footman said the ladies wanted... | |
| Sir John William Kaye - 1836 - 1050 pages
...strives with all her might, to prevent the tears from gushing forth. Then she trembled all over, " from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot," the excitement of her feelings made her tremble, and all because she had alighted upon a passage which... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1838 - 1070 pages
...any other that to her was attainable ; but feel it she did, as John Effingham used to express it, " from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot." She had passed through infancy, childhood, girlhood, up to womanhood, pari passu, with the mother of... | |
| James Fenimore [Cooper - 1838 - 366 pages
...any other that to her was attainable; but feel it she did, as John Effingham used to express it, " from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot." She had passed through infancy, childhood, girlhood, up to womanhood, pari jtassu, with the mother... | |
| 1839 - 790 pages
...strives, witli all her might, to prevent the tears from gushing forth. Then she trembled all over, "from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot," the excitement of her feelings made her tremble, and all because she hail alighted upon a passage which... | |
| 1841 - 120 pages
...sense of her awful situation; so that she was in a state of complete nudity, and blackened and charred from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot. Her hands were raised in a posture of supplication, and her legs drawn up towards her body, indicating... | |
| Manu - 1847 - 1138 pages
...the jungle, in her manners and conversation, in her clothes tnd ornaments, she is careful and neat from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot ; she conceals her person, and is reserved in ber joking and conversation. She is bashful in the presence... | |
| 1848 - 536 pages
...woman — a slave to the hardest mistress that over shod an iron heel with velvet, for she was dressed from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot according to the " very latest" rules of Fashion. Everything she wore, though of inexpensive material,... | |
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