 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...round the party upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or five-and-twenty ; her eyes were blue and her hair fair; it hung carelessly..."setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tallthin — pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget... | |
 | Short stories - 1835 - 438 pages
...bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or five-and-twenty ; her eyes were blue and hailfair; it hung carelessly over her forehead, and the whole..."setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1831 - 622 pages
...around the party upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or fiveand-twenty; her eyes were blue and her hair fair; it hung carelessly...what is called " setting one's self off to the best ad van tage." She was tall — thin — pale; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 354 pages
...in her corner ; her disposition, by the look she gives to her companions : and her character — but perhaps that may require a minute or two more. The...setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget... | |
 | Emily Percival - Gift books - 1848 - 346 pages
...in her corner; her disposition, by the look she gives to her companions : and her character — but perhaps that may require a minute or two more. The...evidence of a want of attention to what is called THE BRIGHTON COACH. " setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale... | |
 | Gift books - 1851 - 340 pages
...in her corner; her disposition, by the look she gives to her companions : and her character — but perhaps that may require a minute or two more. The...setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...gaze round the party upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or fivcaud-twenty; wuw v q , iscalled "setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale ; and there... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...gaze round the party upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or fiveand-twenty; her eyes were blue and her hair fair; it hung carelessly..."setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget;... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 452 pages
...gaze round the party upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. She was about four or fiveand-twenty; her eyes were blue and her hair fair; it hung carelessly...setting one's self off to the best advantage." She was tall — thin — pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget;... | |
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She was tall — thin — pale; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget ; it was mild and gentle, and seemed to be formed to its plaintive cast by suffering — and yet why should one so lovely be unhappy ? As the... 