"Toilette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... phrenologist aided by the divination of a plastic artist who has had great experience of feminine humanity. The examination lasts many minutes, and finally, as if under the inspiring influence of the god of taste, Epinglard, in broken phrases, composes the dress: "Toilette entirely of tulle ... corsage plaited diagonally ... around the decolletage four ruches ... the skirt relieved with drapery of white satin falling behind like a peplum ... on the shoulder—the left shoulder—a bouquet of myosotis or violets ... that is how I see ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... l'arbre et appela les dames d'honneur, qui regardrent leur nouvelle souveraine avec dgot. Le prince leur ordonna de vtir la ngresse, et elles lui donnrent la belle robe de satin blanc, le voile de marie, et la couronne de fleurs d'oranger. Mais toute cette belle toilette la faisait ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... American equality that I perceived, was my being introduced in form to a milliner; it was not at a boarding-house, under the indistinct outline of "Miss C—," nor in the street through the veil of a fashionable toilette, but in the very penetralia of her temple, standing behind her counter, giving laws to ribbon and to wire, and ushering caps and bonnets into existence. She was an English woman, and I was told that she possessed great intellectual endowments, and ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope
... and hands at the rustic out-of-doors toilette, and little Casper, the black boy, brought him a thick linen towel, with velvet-like softness and smelling of lavender. Then he must have some home-brewed beer to refresh himself, and a plate of Janice Kent's wafers, that were spicy ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... woman's quickness of eye, glanced at the rich toilette of the speaker. It was mourning, but mourning of the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
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