"Poplin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... larn. Yure rather more Roon than Octo, I take it," sed I, fur I never seed a puttier gal in the hull endoorin time of my life. She had on a More Antic Barsk & a Poplin Nubier with Berage trimmins onto it, while her ise & kurls was enuff to make a man jump into a mill pond without biddin his relashuns good-by. I pittid the Octoroon from the inmost recusses of my hart & hawled out 50 dollars kerslap, ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... contained a cheque for ten pounds, for that article of mine in the Decade. I mean to go into Dorminster, and get one or two things we shall be wanting, and I shall probably drive back in Sydney's cab. So you can leave the wine and dessert to me. And, mother dear, be sure you put on your silver-grey poplin, with the Mechlin cap. Nothing suits you half ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... year, for instance, I bought our Matrona Semyenovna, not a poplin, but something of ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... the girls seldom approached their brother. Perhaps because they so seldom had anything new. Then he liked showy dress, and theirs was always moderate. But at night, after Miss Smithers had gone, Ruth could not help exhibiting her poplin, and telling ...
— 'Our guy' - or, The elder brother • Mrs. E. E. Boyd |
