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"Chemise" Quotes from Famous Books

... a full-length portrait in oil of a young Indian woman, holding a small cross in her right hand, and gazing at it with bent head. Her left hand was spread upon her breast. She wore a calico chemise reaching below her knees, and leggings, and moccasins. A heavy robe was thrown over the top of her head, falling on the sides and back to within a foot of the ground. In the middle background was a stream, with ...

— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin

... to sleep, you rise, and may see the good wife cleaning her only plate for you by rubbing it on her greasy hair and wiping it with the bottom of her chemise. Ugh! Proceeding on the journey, it is a common sight to see three or four little birds sitting on the backs of the horned cattle getting their breakfast, which I hope they relish better ...

— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray

... her hands 'neath her crimson cheeks; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) She gave up mending her father's breeks, And let the cat roll in her best chemise. ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... he witnessed, the same spook who had before been recognized by a gentleman as "his queen," prepared herself in the following way: Divesting herself of all clothing she donned simply a long chemise that reached her shoe tops. She drew on a pair of white stockings, and over them a pair of white slippers. Into her hair and ears she put rhinestone diamonds, and around her neck a necklace of the same beautiful ...

— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne

... Bien part de sa place qui son amy y lesse. Il n'y a melieur mirroir que le vieil amy. Amour fait beaucoup, mais l'argent fait tout. L'amour la tousse et la galle ne se peuvent celer. Amour fait rage, mais l'argent fait marriage. Ma chemise blanche, baise mon cul tous les dimanches. Mieux vaut vn tenes, que deux fois l'aurez. Craindre ce qu'on peut vaincre, est vn bas courage. A folle demande il ...

— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

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