"Toque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reply, but slowly divesting herself of her sable coat she threw it on to a chair, took off the toque that graced her shapely head, and flung it after the coat. Then she drew out a chair, and sat down at the table, her chin on her palms, her blue eyes fixed ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... out with all sorts of things," laughed Wendy. "Vests, and nightdresses, and stockings, and anything we could lay our hands on. I'm specially padded over the shoulders. The toque is one of Diana's hats turned inside out with some feathers pinned on. The tooth? Why, that was a piece of india-rubber tucked inside my lip. It was fearfully difficult to make it stick, I can tell you. It kept ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... morning, John being still on duty, Maria Dolores came back,—booted and spurred for her journey, in tailor-made tweeds, with a little felt toque and a veil: a costume of which Annunziata's eyes were quick to catch ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland
... toque fitted gracefully on her beautiful blonde head. Her cheeks matched the poinsettia, or Christmas flower, and her eyes were as blue as the sapphires in ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose
... figure was slender and slightly above the middle height. A distracting dimple dented the velvet of her right cheek, and above her small mouth and perfectly formed nose a pair of hazel eyes looked frankly out upon the world. Her oval face was surmounted by a dainty toque, from under which a vagrant tendril of hair had escaped. This blew about her ears, glistening like gold in ...
— Doubloons—and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes
... wearily. Intimate friends are sometimes cloying, and she felt a certain irritation rising within her, as she watched Sally's bright face under her French toque, and listened to the easy stream of chatter which issued from Sally's lips. Sally had never faced such a crisis as the one confronting Beatrix, that day. Moreover, she had dimples, and it was impossible to believe ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... piercing streams, neither blue nor green, that gush out of the dolomites. Her face was clear and brown, like the face of a mountaineer; her hair was so plentiful that it seemed banked up above it; and her little toque, though it answered the note of the dress, was almost ludicrous, poised on so much natural glory. When she moved, the sunlight flashed on ...
— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster
... leave me in the hotel to mend her clothes; whereupon I became actually servile in my ministrations. I brushed a microscopic speck of dust off her gown; I pushed in a hairpin; I tucked up a flying end of veil; I straightened her toque, and made myself altogether indispensable; for the bare idea of being left behind was a box on the ear. I could not endure such a punishment—and the front seat would look so empty, ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... goings and comings was at hand. Generally she managed to cajole her querulous companion into permitting her her own way, but prospects did not look very bright at present. She emerged slowly from the pretty blue bedroom looking very handsome in her rich furs and a gray-blue toque ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... a slim, tragic, rather wan figure in a heavy dark traveling-coat and felt toque, her sweet lips parted and a look of bewildered amazement upon her countenance as I burst in so ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... to him, on deck. She was wrapped in a long, dark blue coat, with well-cut lines which showed the youthfulness of her tall, slim figure, as tall and slim as Billie Brookton's, but more alertly erect, more boyish. On her head was a small, close-fitting toque of the same dark blue as her coat; and between this cap and the turned-up collar bunched out a thick roll of yellow hair. It was not as yellow as Billie's, yet at first glance it reminded him of hers, with a sick longing for lost beauty and romance. Seeing ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... luego sobrevenga El jugueton gatillo bullicioso, Y primero medroso Al verte, se retire y se contenga, 20 Y bufe y se espeluce horrorizado, Y alce el rabo esponjado, Y el espinazo en arco suba al cielo, Y con los pies apenas toque el suelo. "Mas luego recobrado, 25 Y del primer horror convalecido, El pecho al suelo unido, Traiga el rabo del uno al otro lado, Y cosido en la tierra, observe atento; Y cada movimiento page 23 Que en ti llegue a notar su perspicacia, Le provoque ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... as he stood at the window watching two children playing in the dusk, there was a knock. It was Istra. She stood at his door, smart and inconspicuous in a black suit with a small toque that hid the flare of her ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... words. "The idea of fussing about chaperons and that nonsense at our time of life!" And she proceeded to array herself in her most youthful summer dress, which was also the choicest of her stock, taking the utmost pains to match toque and gloves, while full of indignation against his friends for so ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... wildest extremes of the simple-unobtrusive. They are delightful, I think, those reverent little windows with the chaste curtains and floors of polished walnut, in the middle of which reposes delicately a single toque, a single chocolate or a single pearl. Some of the picture-places are among the most modest. There is one window which suggests nothing but the obscure branch of a highly-decayed bank in the dimmest cathedral town. On the dingy screen which ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 15, 1920 • Various
... silla. Tendio en torno suyo una mirada de inexplicable regocijo, dejo ver en sus labios la inmortal sonrisa del triunfador, y asi, transfigurado y hermoso, con el doble temblor de la muerte y del entusiasmo, pronuncio 20 las siguientes palabras, entrecortadas y solemnes como las campanadas del toque de agonia:[40-5] ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... you picked out me, when you could have any one in 19—. I can't realize it!" She glanced at her shabby coat, made over from Babe's discarded golf cape, and then at Eleanor Watson's irreproachable blue walking suit and braided toque to match. "Here all girls are really created free and ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... charming in a lemon-colored foulard dress and a black toque; Mrs. Bundercombe in an Okata dressmaker's conception of a tailor-made gown in some hard, steel-ray material, and a hat whose imperfections were perhaps mercifully hidden by a veil, which, instead of providing a really reasonable excuse for its existence by concealing ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... was deadly tired, and her head ached, yet she struggled up as the door clicked. O'Reilly had brought in her hat and dropped it on a table. There was no hat-pin, but Clo crushed the soft toque down over her masses of red hair, and hoped she was not untidy enough to be conspicuous. Unsteadily she tottered to another door—the door that led into the corridor. This faced a narrower passage to the kitchen and domestic offices of the flat. Clo would have ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
