 I should have thought that female vanity would have effectually prevented such a traffic as this being carried on to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty in finding possessors of beautiful heads of hair perfectly willing to sell. We saw several...  A Summer in Brittany - Page 323by Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1840 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leisure - 1852 - 950 pages
...fairs and buying the tresses of the peasant girls. They have particularly fine hair, and frequently of the greatest abundance. I should have thought that...be no difficulty in finding possessors of beautiful headb of hair perfectly willing to sell. We saw several girls sheared one after tho other like sheep,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...have thought that female vanity would have effectually prevented such a traffic as this being carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty...in their hands, and their long hair combed out, and 359 359 banging down to their waists. Some of the operators were men, and some women. By the side of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...thought that female vanity would have effectually prevenled such a traffic аз this being carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty...beautiful heads of hair perfectly willing to sell. We saw sevcml girls sheared, one after the other, like sheep, and as many more standing ready for the shears,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1858 - 658 pages
...have thought that female vanity would have effectually prevented such a traffic as this being carried to any extent ; but there seemed to be no difficulty in finding beautiful heads of hair perfectly willing to sell (sic). We saw several girls sheared — one after... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...have thought that female vanity would hate effectually prevented such a traffic as this lein; carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty in finding possessors of beautiful heads oí hair perfectly willing to sell. We sа\у several girls sheared, one after the other, like sheep,... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - Great Britain - 1861 - 556 pages
...heing carried to any extent. But there seemed to he no difficulty in finding possessors of heautiful heads of hair perfectly willing to sell. We saw several...with their caps in their hands, and their long hair comhed out, and hanging down to their waists. Some of the operators were men, and some women. By the... | |
 | 1863 - 512 pages
...have thought that female vanity would have effectuallv prevented such a traffic as this being carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty...like sheep, and as many more standing ready for the sheers, with their caps in tl eir hands, and their long hair combed out and hanging down to their waisis.... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1863 - 510 pages
...have thought that female vanity woidd have effectually prevented such a traffic as this being carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty...like sheep, and as many more standing ready for the sheers, with thejr caps in tl eir hands, and their long hair combed out and hanging down to their wai'ts.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1853 - 578 pages
...have thought that female vanity would have effectually prevented such a traffic as this being carried to any extent. But there seemed to be no difficulty...for the shears, with their caps in their hands, and th«ir long hair combed out, and hanging down to their waists. Some of the operators were men, and... | |
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