"Toque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ready at once," she said. "I'm going to put on my long travelling cloak, to cover up this dress, and wear my black toque, with a veil. I suppose you'll do the same? Then we can slip out, and down the 'service' stairs. The carriage is to wait for us at ...
— The Powers and Maxine • Charles Norris Williamson
... wrapped in a long, dark blue coat, with well-cut lines which showed the youthfulness of her tall, slim figure, as tall and slim as Billie Brookton's, but more alertly erect, more boyish. On her head was a small, close-fitting toque of the same dark blue as her coat; and between this cap and the turned-up collar bunched out a thick roll of yellow hair. It was not as yellow as Billie's, yet at first glance it reminded him of hers, with a sick longing for lost beauty and romance. Seeing the delicate figure, cloaked in the ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... I'm dressed! I've had the same toque two years. And what do you think of this frock? The material cost four-three a yard. I look like a ...
— The Bill-Toppers • Andre Castaigne
... of this bag was never absent from her purse, and opening it with quivering hands, the girl threw in a few toilet things for the night, a coat, skirt, and blouse for morning, and a small flat toque which would not crush. Afterward—in that wonderful, dim "afterward" which shone vaguely bright, like a sunlit landscape discerned through mist—she could send for more of her possessions. But ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... words. "The idea of fussing about chaperons and that nonsense at our time of life!" And she proceeded to array herself in her most youthful summer dress, which was also the choicest of her stock, taking the utmost pains to match toque and gloves, while full of indignation against his friends ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... out of his sleigh, and would have passed if Hetty had not stopped him. She sat higher than her companion, and probably knew that the Canadian blanket costume, with its scarlet trimmings, became her slender figure. The crimson toque also went well with the clustering dark hair and dark eyes, and there was a brightness in the latter which was in keeping with the colour the cold wind had brought into the delicate oval face. The man glanced at her a moment, and then apparently ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... a slim, tragic, rather wan figure in a heavy dark traveling-coat and felt toque, her sweet lips parted and a look of bewildered amazement upon her countenance as I burst in so suddenly ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... see of him!" she said to herself almost viciously, as the Irish-American official spied upon her toque the wing of a fowl domesticated since the ark. Yet for the second time Peter came ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... winter cloak, wear a blue woollen gown. On your head, a toque with red leaves on it. Round your neck, a feather boa. ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
... las cabezas De Ixtaccihuatl purssimo, Orizava Y Popocatepetl; sin que el invierno Toque jams con destructura mano Los campos fertillsimos do ledo Los mira el indio en purpura ligera Yoro teirse, reflejando el brillo Del sol en Occidente, que sereno En yelo eterno y perennal verdura A torrentes versi su luz dorada, Y vi a naturaleza conmovida Con ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca
... biggon, biggonnet, busby, coif, berretta, biretta, barret, caul, callot, head-gear, turban, fez, calotte, toque, mortarboard, mitre, tarboosh, Tam-o-Shanter, zuchetto, wimple, shako, morion, mozetta, casque, helmet, mutch, montero, domino, beaver, glengarry, calpac, thrum cap, beret, keffieh, mortier, mobcap. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... not reply, but slowly divesting herself of her sable coat she threw it on to a chair, took off the toque that graced her shapely head, and flung it after the coat. Then she drew out a chair, and sat down at the table, her chin on her palms, her blue eyes ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... left her and she called the maid, who brought at her bidding a long black cloak and a small black toque—insignificant compared to anything else ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward
... his two hands in the air, his elbows bent, and all at once we saw arising, all black on the immense white cliff, a colossal shadow, the shadow of Buddha in his hieratic posture. And the little pointed toque that the man wore on his head even looked like the head-dress ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... the lady (?) in the purple toque note that, though it may be the thing in her home to disregard the feelings of others, the abstraction of someone else's chair at a White Sale at Blankridge's is not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 28, 1919. • Various
... street outside the church door the two girls shook hands and exchanged greetings. Janet wore a long fur coat, and a toque of dark Russian sable, with a sweeping feather at one side. The price of these two garments alone would equal the whole of Claire's yearly salary, but it had the effect of making the wearer look clumsy and middle-aged compared ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey |
