 What surprised me more than all, by the singularity and novelty of the thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three or four different purchasers of this commodity, who travel the country for...  A Summer in Brittany - Page 323by Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1840 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...and was more struck by the operations of the hair-dealers than by anything else which met his notice. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three or four of these dealers, bargaining with the girls for their flowing tresses, which were very luxuriant and... | |
 | Leisure - 1852 - 950 pages
...thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there wore three or four different purchasers of this commodity,...girls. They have particularly fine hair, and frequently of the greatest abundance. I should have thought that female vanity would have effectually prevented... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...than all, by the singularity and novelty of the thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three...and buying the tresses of the peasant girls. They bave particularly fine hair, and frequently in the greatest abundance. I should have thought that female... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...than all, by the singularity and novelty of the tiiing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three...purpose of attending the fairs and buying the tresses of ihe peasant girls. They have particularly fine hair, and frequently in the greatest abundance. I should... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 566 pages
...than all, by the singularity and novelty of the thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three...commodity, who travel the country for the purpose of attendingthe fairs and buying- the tresses of the peasant girls. They have particularly fine hair,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...he says, ' by the singularity and novelty of the thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three or four different purchasers of this comraoditr, who travel the country for the purpose of attending the fairs and buying the tresses of... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...parts of the motley crowd," says one who had stopped to stare his fill at one of the Breton fairs, " there were three or four different purchasers of this...attending the fairs and buying the tresses of the peasant-girls," who seem, indeed, to bring the article to market as regularly as pens or cabbages.... | |
 | Commerce - 1858 - 786 pages
...parts of the motley crowd," says one who had stopped to stare his fill at one of the Breton fairs, " there were three or four different purchasers of this...attending the fairs and buying the tresses of the peasant-girls," who seem, indeed, to bring the article to market as regularly as peas or cabbages.... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - Great Britain - 1861 - 556 pages
...than all, hy the singularity and novelty of the thing, were the operations of the dealers in hair. In various parts of the motley crowd there were three...different purchasers of this commodity, who travel the countrv for the purpose of attending the fairs and huying the tresses of the peasant girls. They have... | |
 | 1863 - 512 pages
...parts of the motley crowd," says one who had stopped to stare his fill at one of the Breton fairs, " there were three or four different purchasers of this...country for the purpose of attending the fairs and buving the tresses of the peasant-girls," who seem, indeed, to bring the article to market as regularly... | |
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