"Dressed-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pretty sight? Cost a pretty sight o' the People's money, I know that. Tomfoolery, that's what it is; a set of dressed-up bullies dancin' quadrilles on 'orseback; that ain't military manoeuvrin'. It's sickenin' the way fools applaud such goins on. And cuttin off the Saracen's 'ed, too; I'd call it plucky if the Saracen 'ad a gun in his 'and. Bah, I ate the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 5, 1890 • Various
... winter evenings were often dull enough. Sometimes, indeed, they would all join in some regular indoor boys' game like "baste the bear," or "high-cockolorum"; or they would have amusing "ghost-hunts," as they called them, after some dressed-up boy among the dark corridors and staircases. This was good fun, but at other times they got tired of games, and could not get them up, and then numbers of boys felt the idle time hang heavy on their hands. When ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... Carraway. "She's like a dressed-up doll-baby, too; all the natural thing has been squeezed out of her, and ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... We're both sick of dressed-up summer resorts. I want to see this country of Mr. Dunne's. We can rough it if we have to. We'll have a camp or take a house—we'll get ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... the Mexican children took Dick and Rose-Ellen to the vacation school held every summer in one of the town churches. The Beechams were not surprised at Nico's dressed-up daintiness when she called for them. Grandma said she was perfect, from the ribbon bows on her shining hair to the socks that matched her smart print dress. But it was surprising to see Vicente come from the cluttered, dirty ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means
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