 He received me very courteously; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small...  Highways and Byways in London - Page 364by Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...very courteously; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old, shriveled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...very courteously; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old, shriveled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pages
...very courteously; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...event of his first visit to Dr. Johnson was naturally an occasion for Boswell to describe his hero : His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 pages
...1778. " My dear, what makes you so fond of the Scotch? I don't like you for that." 4 Life, i- 391-395a little old, shrivelled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...courteously ; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...courteously: [320 but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1916 - 348 pages
...sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on 1 Le/e, ii. 311. * Life, 1.425. a little old, shrivelled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pah- of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...furniture, and morningdress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of cloaths looked very rusty ; hehad on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
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