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DRESS AND FASHION IN PARIS

... fastened down itswholelength by oxydised tual steel olive-shaped clasps and red silk cords; plush bles. pockets and small straight collar to match. Many )ing, travelling costumes are made of soft Limousine oleys cloth, with tiny coloured stripes. on a ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... being quite as astonishing in size and nature as the botanical or zoologi- cal wonders. There is another beetle called the razor- grinder, that imitates the sound of a knife-grinding ma- chine so exactly, that it is impossible to divest one's self of the ...

BROTHERS OF THE CHAIN

... cheeks and chin and upper lip were rough with beard and moustache, which had only beie clipped and had not known the touch of a razor for many a month. The man who was standing on tile ?? in the bows was small and thin, browni and hard,. and his-face, as he ...

Literary Selections

... of the notorious gang that have so long infested the Waterloo-road. Is it posiblo ? What a wonderfnl police ! Here is a straight, broad, public thoroughfare of immense resort ; half a mile long; gas lighted by night with a great gas-hghted railway station ...

THE GAME FOR LIFE

... filled with horrible tusks. A long tuft of hair hung from his chin, and his upper lip and cheeks had not felt the touch of a razor for some days. Having fixed his evil little eyes on me, and taken a good inventory of may personal appearance and effects, ...

AWFUL CATASTROPHE AT THE SURREY MUSIC HALL, SHEFFIELD

... gfreat as to force the foremost persons headlong forward ce and precipitate those behind on them. Had the stairs ut been straight, this must have happened, anad many would eyhave been suffocated; and had they been oplen at the ha sides, with the protection ...

THE A B C OF RAILWAY MANAGEMENT

... tvbeeft by the remedies prescrlbe anithd or Misim, Mr. -rice thought it .necessary to caution catilon, ad anon against leaving razors or knives in his way. tnforhandhi the greatest itreumspeation was accordingly used In nohos thid particular, 4the niece bin ...

MISS BLAKE'S LOVE AFFAIR

... discovered that heve i nher direction, and they wool set o¢T 4 -gte the Professor tor the heat yard or t wo hold >f ju himself straight and trying not to shuffle od .To, be sure the skirts of his overcoat did not get e in his way now. 'lie lad missed the aggravato ...

Wit and Humour

... agaiu brought up n 1] the charge of murdering' hil d aughter, Daisy Garrod, aged seven years, by outtipg her ',throat o with a razor. On the arplication gt the Treasury, c Mr. Lushington further remanded the accused. i Mr. Justice Denman opened the commission ...

Literature

... Helas at all evetots, should pack it with their necessary rae raiment-not to be forgotten any more than their fro: of it, st razors; or, if the travellers belong to the fairer sex, ciii tetheir parasols, or the wide, shadowing, ubiquitous, Tn little straw ...