 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...with ribbon, pink or blue, like the one which encircles the head) ; the men in jackets and trousers of the same material as the dresses of the women....platoon of soldiers firing with blank- cartridge. An English person just landed on these shores, looks on the scene with wonder and distaste, and resolves... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...material as the dressée of the women. Assistants, both male and female, who look like cousin-germane lo the Tritons, conduct the bathers into the sea, and...storming over them like a platoon of soldiers firing with a blank cartridge. An English person just landed on these shores, looks on the scene with wonder and... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...with ribbon, pink or blue, like the one which encircles the head) ; the men in jackets and trousers of the same material as the dresses of the women....and storming over them like a platoon of soldiers Jinny with blank-cartridge. An English person just landed on these shores, looks on the scene with... | |
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... women, clad to the throat in coarse full robes of blue frieze (their hair beautifully arranged, braided on the forehead, secured by bands of ribbon, and hanging down the back in long plaits, tied with ribbon, pink or blue, like the one which encircles... 