Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... dress of watered silk is the most fashionable and elegant you can wear in Sweden . Smuggling is thus encouraged , for the prohibited silk is worn by whoever can afford to get it . A shopkeeper of high standing told me this when showing ...
... dress of watered silk is the most fashionable and elegant you can wear in Sweden . Smuggling is thus encouraged , for the prohibited silk is worn by whoever can afford to get it . A shopkeeper of high standing told me this when showing ...
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... dress - home - made dress . The tawdry finery , the miserable affectation of finery and fashion , so com- mon in England , even in the Highlands of Scot- land , and among the ragged population of Ireland , are yet happily unknown to ...
... dress - home - made dress . The tawdry finery , the miserable affectation of finery and fashion , so com- mon in England , even in the Highlands of Scot- land , and among the ragged population of Ireland , are yet happily unknown to ...
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... dress - black is the state one -- a paletot , or shawl , an apron , and a good pair of gloves , without which no decent servant would go out in the street , complete a simple attire which does not change with the changes of their ...
... dress - black is the state one -- a paletot , or shawl , an apron , and a good pair of gloves , without which no decent servant would go out in the street , complete a simple attire which does not change with the changes of their ...
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... dress , and all ladies who had been presented at Court had a right to a par- ticular place , and must also appear in full dress which , on this occasion , was white for all ages . Men of all classes wore uniforms , either military or ...
... dress , and all ladies who had been presented at Court had a right to a par- ticular place , and must also appear in full dress which , on this occasion , was white for all ages . Men of all classes wore uniforms , either military or ...
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... dress , of dark blue , with scarcely an ornament or order ; and bowing and smiling , his own quiet , amiable smile , looked mildness itself as he walked up the aisle , glancing from pew to pew , or sometimes extending his hand to an ...
... dress , of dark blue , with scarcely an ornament or order ; and bowing and smiling , his own quiet , amiable smile , looked mildness itself as he walked up the aisle , glancing from pew to pew , or sometimes extending his hand to an ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.