"Dinner dress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into a dainty little dinner dress, after which she went on a tour of exploration of the hacienda. Her first port of call was ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... drawing room quite shyly in her first long dinner dress, with her dark hair coiled neatly high on her head. She had met Mr. Kilroy on the stairs, and he had looked at her in a strange, startled way, but he said nothing; and neither did anybody else when she entered the ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... towards that, anxious to disturb little Tom by no sound. As she did so a door suddenly opened, sending a glare of light into the dark corridor. It was the door of the Contessa's room, and with the light came Sir Tom, the Contessa herself appearing after him on the threshold. She was still in her dinner dress, and her appearance remained long impressed upon Lucy's imagination like a photograph without colour, in shadow and light. She gave Sir Tom a little packet apparently of letters, and then she held out both hands to him, which he took in his. Something seemed ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... need think no more about them,' Caroline said, concealing her annoyance, 'and I shall be able to afford a new dinner dress. Black sequins, I thought, Sophia—and we must give a ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... their aunt in the library. She was in her dinner dress and the dinner gong was sounding in the hall, but her face was puzzled as she turned from a woman talking to her, ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre |
