"Wigged" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he and his host were seated at tea. The lofty window-doors stood open to let in the June zephyrs. With the two wigged and liveried servants attending, the scene to Lecour seemed the acting of a beautiful charade, the introduction ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... of love, which, the poet says, "never does run smooth." The successes of the Allies had been too rapid for their cabinets; and we had found ourselves on the frontiers of France before the guardian genii of Europe, in the shape of the stiff-skirted and full-wigged privy councillors of Vienna and Berlin, had made up their minds as to our disposal of the prize. Startling words suddenly began to make their appearance in the despatches, and "indemnity for the past and security for ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various |
