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" Table;* her Bosom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were small, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was stately, her Manner of speaking... "
Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 118
by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pages
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...Lunebourg table ; her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her...stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging. The day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 7

Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 388 pages
...Lunebourg table. Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels; her...stately ; her manner 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,...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...Lunebourg table ; her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her...stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging. The day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle...
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Exposition O. Tassaert au bénéfice de l'Association des artistes peintres ...

Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...had a small crown. Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her...fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 65, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses;...
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Exposition O. Tassaert au bénéfice de l'Association des artistes peintres ...

Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...had a small crown. Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her...fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 65, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses...
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Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 492 pages
...uneovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a neeklaee of exeeeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low." (Itinerary, p. 05, translated by Walpole.) Long before this period she had quarrelled with her looking-glasses...
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The Good Old Times of Queen Bess

Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1851 - 224 pages
...the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine j ewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature...stately, her manner 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...
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volumes 6-7

Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 908 pages
...Lunebourg table. Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small; her fingers long; and her statore neither tall nor low ; her air was stately ; her manner of ypeaking mild and obliging. That...
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Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 3

1853 - 418 pages
...narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar.) her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor...stately, her manner 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...
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The Archaeological mine, antiquarian nuggets relating to Kent by A.J. Dunkin

Archaeological mine - 1855 - 420 pages
...she had a small crown, reported to be made of some of the gold of the celebrated Lunebouri* table. She had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels. Her hands were small, her fingers long; her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging. There...
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