 a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant rings outside them, and long black...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2931927Full view - About this book
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - American literature - 1924 - 380 pages
...imposing upon the imagination of his time. As late as 1833, he is described as appearing at a dinner in "a black velvet coat lined with satin; purple trousers...seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling dowta to the tips of his fingers, white gloves, with several brilliant rings outside them, and long... | |
 | American essays - 1915 - 1026 pages
...of a candidate for Parliament who, in the days of the Reform Bill, could appear at a dinner wearing 'a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders'? Sometimes his trousers were green, and heaven knows what other colors, and this at a time when Bulwer's... | |
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