"Dinner dress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... towards that, anxious to disturb little Tom by no sound. As she did so a door suddenly opened, sending a glare of light into the dark corridor. It was the door of the Contessa's room, and with the light came Sir Tom, the Contessa herself appearing after him on the threshold. She was still in her dinner dress, and her appearance remained long impressed upon Lucy's imagination like a photograph without colour, in shadow and light. She gave Sir Tom a little packet apparently of letters, and then she held out both hands to him, which he took in his. Something seemed ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... the paymaster, "it is no joke, but a stern reality. As my only choice of a dinner dress lay between a suit of paint and this costume, out of consideration for your prejudices I chose this. My head-gear may be unique, but it is at least warm and it is also the only covering I can at ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... fail, for I know his word is inviolable," cried the girl, as she hastily re-arranged some lace on the sleeves of her pretty dinner dress—a combination of silk and velvet in shade of ash ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... from the drawing-room, in dinner dress—for that no lady ever neglects, even though she dines on a cold dumpling. As I opened the street-door, Mrs. Legge was not coming down alone to take her seat at table, but, having some extra duty to perform in consequence ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... put on that dinner dress that I liked best. And tell Ma to look her prettiest, too. ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach |
