"Peignoir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opened and a plump, dumpy lady in a pink peignoir, her front hair done up in curl-papers stood revealed on the threshold blinking ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon
... of some thirty years, with masses of darkest hair cunningly disposed, neck and shoulders beautiful beyond criticism, and dressed in a peignoir of delicate simplicity, came to her husband with a rush smooth as the full-sailed speed ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming
... her fingers are twined one in another in her lap, her eyes are closed, and her expression is one of drowsy, listless voluptuousness. She is fair, and her dress (for she is not arrayed for the reception of visitors) is simple—a peignoir, and a sash, and a fold of silk binding her long rich tresses. A soft die-away face, with no sentiment more strongly defined than the abandonment to pleasure and its consequent weariness. By no means an attractive piece of flesh and blood, and yet a good sample of the class that ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea
... alarmed and got rid of his sister's hug definitely. Madame Leonie then extended her shapely bare arm out of her peignoir, ...
— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad
... my peignoir, Mamma," said Miss, looking at the gentleman, and then dropping down her eyes ...
— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray |
