"Prunello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the ladies. Her dress had no fashionable trail, but showed her low prunella shoes and white, home-knit stockings. She was a prim little body, looking as neat as a pin, but ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various
... Conserve of red roses, arnica liniment, ointment of marshmallow root, of poplar-buds, basilicon ointment, ointment of white camphor, salt of wormwood, salts of the blessed thistle, sal-prunella.] ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... that General Botha has passed the first part of his policy and has left the second part to the future. The Land Act provides that hereafter, "except with the approval of the Governor-General" — which proviso is mere leather and prunella — a Native shall not buy or hire any land from a person other than a Native. The effect of this is that at the termination of any existing tenancy a Native will have to relinquish his farm, and will not be ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... in with a pair of prunella boots in his hand, which he told Bill to carry to the house of Mr. Stewart, a painter who lived in the outskirts of the city. "They are for Mrs. Stewart, to whom you took a pair of shoes last autumn," said he. ...
— Watch—Work—Wait - Or, The Orphan's Victory • Sarah A. Myers
... Solemnly, with prunella portentousness, Mrs. Tinneray stole back of the other passengers leaning over the rail up to Mrs. Bean, who turned ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various |
