"Dishabille" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the door was flung back to the wall. Led by Victor Vassilyevski a dozen men, guests and servants, in various stages of dishabille, streamed into the room. ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... must tell me what trouble has befallen you," she returns, as quickly, in her dishabille, she drops his ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... her chamber and hastened once more through the rooms. Her hair now was waving wildly around her shoulders, and her purple dress, no longer held together by the golden sash, was floating loosely around her form. She took no notice whatever of her dishabille; only one idea, only ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... Spanish colours, or, rather, a remnant of the Spanish colours; and around the door stood a group of most indifferently clad Luzonian soldiers, turned out, we presumed, as a guard of honour. The governor was as much in dishabille as his troops, and shortly afterwards the party was joined by two priests and the governor's wife, a very pretty Creole, about twenty years of age. We were regaled with wine and chocolate, and parted late in the evening, on very friendly terms. The ...
— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat
... a kind of dishabille when they came, having on a loose robe, like a morning-gown, but much after the Italian way; and I had not altered it when I went up, only dressed my head a little; and as I had been represented as having been ...
— The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) • Daniel Defoe
... These widows are as starched as the old bachelors. She would not see him in a dishabille for the world—What can she mean ...
— Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... of this kind of constitution you see going about of a morning rather in dishabille—hair uncombed haply—face and hands even unwashed—and shirt with a somewhat day-before-yesterdayish hue. Yet are they, so far from being dirty, at once felt, seen, and smelt, to be among the very ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 • Various
... printed in italics. Among other words which have been borrowed at various times and more or less naturalized, but which are now being driven out of the language, are the following: confrere, congee, cortege, dishabille, distrait, ensemble, fete, flair, mellay (now melee), nonchalance, provenance, renconter, &c. On the other hand, it is satisfactory to note that 'employee' appears to be ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 3 (1920) - A Few Practical Suggestions • Society for Pure English
... comes up for the third time. Have you any idea what that girl went through out there on Long Island? Listen." She plumped herself down beside Pope and began to talk swiftly with an intensity of indignation that made her forgetful of her dishabille. She was animated; she had an expressive, impulsive manner of using her hands when interested, and now she gesticulated violently. She also squirmed, bounced, hitched, flounced; she seized Pope's arm, she emphasized her points from time to time by a shake or by a dig of her white fingers. ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... dishabille, was seated under the electric light, engaged in a game of dominoes with her maid, and just threw a glance at us ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson |
