... leaders of fashion took to a hat with only a very slight bell line visible in its form, and although a noted hatter in the West had a pretty fair demand for the species in question, the fancy for it developed into nothing like a fashion, and the kind ...

... cuif with calf and I am not sure that he did not read the politics of the Clarion into the essentially American and now old-fashioned democratic Whiggery of Burns. But the fervour of his and his hearers' belief in the poet-politician was beyond all question ...

... rode to Kew. Her Majesty and the Princesses took an airing round Hampstead and Highgate. The announcement seems very old-fashioned. I cannot quite think of the Prince of Wales can tering on horseback to Kew, and yet these royalties were the grandfather ...

... meaning of the word, that is, bearing critical inspection from head to foot. In addition one must have due regard to fashion, fashion which wears out more apparel than the man or even woman Sable, chinchilla, and Persian lamb appear ubiquitous, but sable ...

... ancients said, remains to be seen but everything else is to be yellow-brown. The London sky has for long conformed to the fashion. A mild fog or a snow- cloud assumes the exact shade. It is rather a pity that we should all adopt so useful but unattrac ...

... frivolity which fashionable woman permits herself, and which balances the solemnity of her outside apparel. The jupon that is worn in the day may be gorgeous in colour and elaborate in make, but it must be composed entirely of silk. Fashion, that goddess ...

... Zulus for brutality, because our ladies stripped for dinner, and our exe cutions took place in public The mere facts that the fashion in ladies' dresses came from Paris, and that public executions have long been abolished in England, though they still take ...

... now as host, now as waiter or servant, with the very people who in a few hours he will see representing in the most solemn fashion some of the historical figures of the New Testament. The Apostle John, for example, I remember, was a waiter in one house ...

... apply to the Ranger of Windsor for a ticket. As George III. was fond of the cha.se, stag- hunting became more than ever the fashion, and the fields larger than ever. Hence, in all probability, the King's endeavour to spare the interests of the farmers over ...

... THE WELL-DRESSED MAN THE lounge suit, according to the fashion and the time,'' is a single-breasted garment made on the severest and plainest of lines, with small lapels and a high cut opening, with two inside breast pockets (instead of one of these ...

... that was impossible the next senior offered to go even as a servant. And the company gave him a fine send-off, yellow man fashion, with crackers by way of parting salute. The youngest son, Arthur, a lieutenant in his father's old battalion of the Cameronians ...

... taxpayer was then four pounds it is now eight. The price is bound to fluctuate very considerably, for it depends upon the fashion in fur. If bear is in, then the Army Cloth ing Department has to pay more, and vice versa. An officer's bearskin is another ...