| Statesmen - 1838 - 380 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good cloathes. I came into the house one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Robert Southey - 1844 - 536 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Wilhelm Meinhold - Witchcraft - 1844 - 432 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean;... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1845 - 588 pages
...selves much upon our good clothes ! I came into the House one morning ' Monday morning, ' well clad ; and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country-tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1845 - 174 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the hquse well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| People - 1845 - 348 pages
...valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). I came into the house one morning well clad, and observed a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled — for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor — his linen was plain and not very... | |
| James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 412 pages
...ourselves much upon our good BRITISH COSTUME. clothes. I came one morning into the house we'l clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| John Frost - History, Modern - 1846 - 386 pages
...thus described by the royalist, Sir Philip Warwick. " I came one morning into the House, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, (whom I knew not,)...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - Clothing and dress - 1846 - 660 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have heen made hy an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
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