 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - English fiction - 1872 - 758 pages
...strangely fast at the sound of tinkling bells, and his haughty eyes watched entranced while La Gitana's ' feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light ;' while his face burnt hotly as he recollected that in loving a lowlyborn maiden he was truly a recreant... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...has brought down to us what is light and tumid, but sunk what was ponderous and solid. BACON FEET. HER feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : Buf, oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day, Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 pages
...to say truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ; No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.1... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1867 - 432 pages
...to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But OI she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | English fiction - 728 pages
...with pleasure. She puts the cat on the floor, and dances about — it lazily follows her. Mr. K. ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out.' B. ' Aren't they beautiful slippers ?' She sits down, and holds two very minute feet for inspection.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...that language is suited to express action better than still life. Thus, in Suckling's Bride : — " Her. feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out." A river in motion is either quick or slow, uniform or interrupted with rapids, muddy or clear ; and... | |
 | 1880 - 612 pages
...stately head ; the feet of a goddess, reminding us of Sir John Suckling's description of his heroine : ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out.' Kate wears her hair in the present fashion — two huge Marguerite plaits, heavy and lustreless as... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...coelum, fiat voluntas tua. — Sir T. Browne, Relit;. Med. P. 2, Ssc. xi. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1609-1641. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But O, she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Ballad upon a Wedding.... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...Suckling's poems a scrap, which he said was very beautiful, but which we thought not at all apropos. 'Twas "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out As if they feared the light." Yet he is a useful man and speaks beautifully. But he is at the door. The school will preserve order... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...His ballad of The Wedding is still unsurpassed, and one simile in his description of the bride — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light — has had the honour of being copied by Herrick and Congrevep SUCTO'RIA, an order of insects, containing... | |
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Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, O she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight. 
