 That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar...  Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 119by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1889 - 352 pages
...had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels. She was dressed in white silk bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads." This, observe, was over twenty years after the revels of Kenilworth: and two years beyond this date,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1889 - 354 pages
...had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels. She was dressed in white silk bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads.'1 This, observe, was over twenty years after the revels of Kenilworth: and two years beyond... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English fiction - 1890 - 454 pages
...of speaking kind and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads . . . Instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels." ' These descriptions of her... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1895 - 364 pages
...a necklace of exceeding fine jewels. She was dressed in white silk bordered with pearls of the sizo of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads." This, observe, was over twenty years after the revels of Ken il worth : and two years beyond this date,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 632 pages
...of exceeding fine jewels . . . That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk,...chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.' The University authorities and the Benchers of the Inns of Court attempted to check, or prevent, the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - England - 1897 - 228 pages
...of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk,...shot with silver threads; her train was very long, and the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain she had an oblong col59 lar of gold and... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - England - 1898 - 502 pages
...silk bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of silk shot with silver thread ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. . . . As she went along in all this magnificence, she spoke very graciously to foreign ministers and... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1899 - 334 pages
...stately, and her manner of speech gracious. She was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk...chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence she spoke very graciously to foreign ministers... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - American essays - 1904 - 434 pages
...of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk,...shot with silver threads; her train was very long, and the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels."... | |
 | England - 1905 - 292 pages
...of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk,...chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then... | |
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