The women in gay-colored cotton gowns, and white caps with full double borders, made a very gay appearance. As we all passed through the crowd to the school-house, the enmity of the Papists to Protestant landholders was but too evident. Though Mrs. Edgeworth... Recollections of Seventy Years - Page 126by Mrs. John Farrar - 1866 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. John Farrar - Authors, American - 1866 - 376 pages
...manquent." .Miss Edgeworth and all her family took tho part. of the English Government in their treatment of the Irish, and had no sympathy with the wrongs...her and her friends, •no making way before her, ii0 touching of hats or pleasant looks. A sullen expression and a dogged immovability were on every... | |
| Grace Atkinson Oliver - Women novelists, Irish - 1882 - 616 pages
...Sometimes the cart or car served as a counter on which to display their goods. The women in bright-colored cotton gowns, and white caps with full double borders,...were no bows or smirks for her and her friends, no makmg way before her, no touching of hats, or pleasant looks. A sullen expression and a dogged immovability... | |
| Grace Atkinson Oliver - Authors, English - 1882 - 640 pages
...Sometimes the cart or car served as a counter on which to display their goods. The women in bright-colored cotton gowns, and white caps with full double borders,...appearance. As we all passed through the crowd to the schoolhousc, the enmity of the Papists to Protestant landholders was but too evident. "Though Mrs.... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1894 - 410 pages
...Sometimes the cart or car served as a counter on which to display their goods. The women, in brightcoloured cotton gowns and white caps with full double borders, made a very gay appearance. But as we passed through the crowd to the schoolhouse the enmity of the Papists to Protestant landholders... | |
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