"Trying on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gamelin on his talents and asked him if he would be willing to design a card for a protegee of hers, a fashionable milliner. He would, of course, choose an appropriate motif,—a woman trying on a scarf before a cheval glass, for instance, or a young workwoman carrying ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France
... long mirror, and she neither turned nor looked from the radiant vision it reflected; her eyes, her attention, all the feminine soul of her being just then fixed and centered upon the tea gown she was trying on; such a garment as she had gloated over in the store windows, yearned for, but ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... Aurora, throwing open a great chest, "you ought to get some fun out of trying on those fol-de-rols, and peacocking around; but don't come downstairs to show off to me, for you'll only bother me out of my wits. I'll let you know when ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... were coming home from the dressmaker's, where Ina had been trying on gowns for an hour. It was late in the afternoon and nearly time ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... to stand up all day trying on dresses for rich ladies, who were often rude to her. And because they preferred to be waited on by the pretty, rosy-cheeked girl, Miss Knag, the ugly forewoman, hated the child, and did all she ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
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