"Try on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the dress, which Maurice had flung upon the table, and said, "When you return to the house, Bertha, will you not come to my room and try on your ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... home from a ball because she will meet men there? What woman refuses to walk Broadway in the presence of the stronger sex? What woman refuses to buy every article of her apparel from the hands of a man, or to let the woman's tailor or shoemaker take the measure of her waist or foot; try on and ...
— A Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia • Marie E. Zakrzewska
... first one. I would have gone again on Thursday, but Madame Savain came to try on my bodice and I had a protracted discussion with her about the slant ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... She wanted to try on her little brother the effect of one of Sister Avice's ointments, which she thought more likely to be efficacious than melted mutton fat, mixed with pounded worms, scrapings from the church bells, and boiled seaweed, but some of her ingredients were ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... sort of an eye for size you have," cried the tramp as the old man came up to him. "I suppose you've brought me in a boy's suit? What do you take me for? Any girl could go to a ball in the shoes you brought me to try on here." ...
— The Lamp That Went Out • Augusta Groner
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