Anna was not in lilac, as Kitty had so urgently wished, but in a black, low-cut,
velvet gown, showing her full throat and shoulders, that looked as though carved in old ivory, and her rounded arms, with tiny, slender wrists.
Velvet-black was exactly the word, for by all the powers of moonlight they were masked in the velvet of my camera-cloth.
What else should I have done with the stuff?" He twisted the velvet between his fingers.
In the corner of the sofa there was a cushion, and in the velvet which covered it there was a hole, and out of the hole peeped a tiny head with a pair of tightened eyes in it.
She felt as if she had been on a long journey, and at any rate she had had something to amuse her all the time, and she had played with the ivory elephants and had seen the gray mouse and its babies in their nest in the velvet cushion.
Then the Sheriff came down from his dais and drew near, in all his silks and
velvets, to where the tattered stranger stood leaning upon his stout bow, while the good folk crowded around to see the man who shot so wondrously well.
He was a man of great taste in elegant stuffs, embroideries, and
velvets, being hereditary tailor to the king.
The Lady Mary Loring slipped her hand from her yellow leather gauntlet, and he, lifting it with dainty reverence, bound it to the front of his
velvet cap.
Opposite, on the
velvet lining, done in gold lettering, was, CARLTON FROM DAISY.
Pickwick, in the same tone, 'it is not half the insult to you, that your appearance in my presence in a green
velvet jacket, with a two-inch tail, would be to me.'
But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and
velvet all ruined by the river.
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and
velvet gown.