 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is reckoned a very good morning's work; and if they make an excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for anything else all the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is reckoned a very good morning's work ; and if they make an excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for anything else all the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons oothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey excursion to a mercer's or a toy shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for anything else all the... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is reckoned a very good morning's work; and if they make an excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for anything else all the... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is reckoned a very good morning's work ; and if they make an excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for any thing else all the... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons Knows he the world so little, and its trade? Alas! excursion to a mercer's or a toy shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for anything else all the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for any thing else all the... | |
 | James Arbuckle - 922 pages
...Species. Species. Their Toilet is their great Scene of Bufinefs ; and the well adjufting of their Hair, is reckoned a very good Morning's work : and if they make an Excurfion to a Mercer's or a Toy-Jhop, fo great a Fatigue renders them unfit for any thing elle the Day after. THE ErTect: of this... | |
 | Tita Chico - 2005 - 316 pages
...shop and, if they are particularly industrious, actually shopping: "The sorting ot a Suit of Ribbons is reckoned a very good Morning's Work; and if they make an Excursion to a Mercer's or a Toy-shop, so great a Fatigue makes them unfit for any thing else all the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 pages
...right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives. The sorting of a suit of ribbons is reckoned a very good morning's work ; and if they make an excursion to a mercer's or a toy-shop, so great a fatigue makes them unfit for any thing else all the... | |
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... contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures, and are more adapted to the sex than to the species. The toilet is their great scene of business, and the right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of... 
