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Common terms and phrases
acquaintance afternoon tea agreeable American asked ball beautiful better bonnets bouquet breakfast bride bridesmaids Brown ceremony champagne chaperon china church cloisonné cold color course crape crêpe custom daughter dinner dinner-table dishes dress elegant England English engraved entertainment etiquette fashion father favor flowers foie gras fork friends Gainsborough hats garden-party gentleman gifts girl give glass gloves gold groom guests hand hostess house-keeper introduced invitation lace leave cards luncheon maid manners marriage married matinée mistress morning dress mother mourning napkin never optional civility ornaments party person plain plate present pretty proper receive reception salad satin sent servant served silk silver wedding social society sometimes spect spoon supper taste thing tion Titmouse veil waiter wear wedding breakfast wedding favor WEDDING PRESENTS wish woman women write young lady
Popular passages
Page 287 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince,. and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Page 461 - The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 430 - How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper ; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger from the throat outwards ; or at best, produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good.
Page 381 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Page 168 - Ladies' links should be laid out on the model, though on a smaller scale, of the long round, containing some short putting-holes, some larger holes admitting of a drive or two of seventy or eighty yards, and a few suitable hazards. We venture to suggest seventy or eighty yards as the average limit of a drive, advisedly, not because we doubt a lady's power to make a longer drive, but because that cannot be well done without raising the club above the shoulder.
Page 200 - ... the ball, the party, the races, the dinners, and especially to theatre parties; she must preside at the table, and act the part of a mother, so far as she can; she must watch the characters of the men who approach her charge, and endeavor to save the inexperienced girl from the dangers of a bad marriage, if possible.
Page 108 - ... glancing all around with a triumphant assurance. Miss Mehitable hung upon his arm, pale with excitement and emotion. Then came Esther and I. As we passed up the aisle, I heard a confused murmur of whisperings and a subdued drawing in of breath, and the rest all seemed to me to be done in a dream. I heard the words, " Who giveth this woman to be married to this man...
Page 379 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.