Suddenly that silly orchestra seat and the cavorting of a comedian with funny feet become matters of life, death, and immortality; you grasp pillars of the universe and strain as you sway back to that befrilled ticket girl. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)
She went down the street with her head in the air, holding her dress very high to display a lace-befrilled petticoat, and clattering gracefully on two high-heeled, pointed shoes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Across the velvety turf of the green tripped Rose Lancaster, dangling a basket from her arm, a picture herself in her pink cambric frock and befrilled apron, a little French cap set upon her head which enhanced the beauty of the golden hair. ❋ H. Louisa Bedford (N/A)
Mrs. Cherry was treated there to a collation that so long as she lived remained distinctive, with a white-capped maid in a black dress and much befrilled apron to serve it in courses just as the other luncheon was served. ❋ Francis Barton Fox (N/A)
Debby obeyed, and inspected herself with great interest and some astonishment; for there was a sweeping amplitude of array about the young lady whom she beheld in the much-befrilled gown and embroidered skirts, which somewhat alarmed her as to the navigation of a vessel ❋ Various (N/A)
The fireplace was surrounded with loops of the same yellow damask, and the bed, the focusing point, the rococo pièce de résistance of the whole room, was befrilled and befurbelowed until its original shape was lost altogether. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1931)
Lines of motors were rolling down the road from early morning onward, filled with flannel-coated or befrilled holiday makers or laden with farmers and farmers 'wives and farmers' children. ❋ Cornelia Meigs (1928)
Mabel, rouged and befrilled, still made an attractive foil for Wallace as the hero. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
Beside her was a befrilled and bemuslined cradle, and on a chair lay the garments in which Miss Rosetta had dressed the baby. ❋ Lucy Maud (1920)
He had looked at her on that occasion, but she was so befrilled and be-feathered that he caught nothing but a graceful outline and a small, dark head above a white ostrich boa. ❋ Unknown (1920)
The front of his shirt is befrilled and embroidered, and his studs are the largest diamonds; not even financiers in England wear such important stones. ❋ Unknown (1919)
We went to school, and in our dainty befrilled pinafores and light shoes were regarded as great swells by the other scholars. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
Once, the Governor of the prison, bewigged, powdered, lace-befrilled, ventured pompously into the women's department without his usual armed guard; fifty hags set upon him. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
Miss Cornelia and Marilla put all the little love-made garments away, together with the ruffled basket which had been befrilled and belaced for dimpled limbs and downy head. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Suddenly that silly orchestra seat and the cavorting of a comedian with funny feet become matters of life, death, and immortality; you grasp the pillars of the universe and strain as you sway back to that befrilled ticket girl. ❋ Unknown (1915)
She was a fluffy-haired little thing in a much befrilled dress, holding a fan coquettishly behind her head. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Somehow Lily, although a little, befrilled girl, gave an impression of having a knowledge of a square deal almost as much as a boy would; but what boy could tell with a certainty what such an uncertain creature as a girl might or might not do? ❋ Unknown (1910)
