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"Toque" Quotes from Famous Books

... opening she always displayed one of those little toques completely covered with violets. No one ever bought a hat like that. No one ever will. That violet-covered toque is ...

— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... still pale but self-possessed, and wonderfully pretty in her fur jacket and toque; and as she stood there, both hands dropped into his, that nameless and winning grace which had always fascinated him held him now—something about her that recalled the child in the garden with clustering hair ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... I shall see of him!" she said to herself almost viciously, as the Irish-American official spied upon her toque the wing of a fowl domesticated since the ark. Yet for the second time Peter came back, ...

— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson

... ya, sombria y nebulosa. La luna se dejaba ver a intervalos por entre los jirones de las nubes que volaban en derredor nuestro, rozando casi con la tierra, y las campanas de Trasmoz[1] dejaban oir lentamente el toque de oraciones, como el final de la horrible historia ...

— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

... cole justitiam; toque atque alios manet ultor." [Footnote: "Do thou cultivate justice: for thee and for others there remains ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... don't think we've much altered in anything. Let's see, though.' He looked at Maisie critically. The pale blue haze of an autumn day crept between the tree-trunks of the Park and made a background for the gray dress, the black velvet toque above the black ...

— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling

... chair and waved a limp hand in invitation for her to take a seat near him. But she merely came and stood in the middle of the room and surveyed him with an uncompromising air of business. From the velvet toque, with just a suggestion of a coquettish cant on her brown curls, down her healthily round cheeks, a bit flushed, above the fur neckpiece that clasped her throat, Britt's fervent eyes strayed. And some of the words of the Prophet's singsong monotone echoed in the empty chambers ...

— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

Words linked to "Toque" : woman's hat, chapeau, lid, millinery, hat