An old-style book that I find very cute (using a font resembling a child's handwriting), kind (the turtle apologises to the lion when he finds himself in the lion's den by mistake) and with a friendly touch of bon-ton (the zebras bow when they meet Susanna). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Basically, they're a size Small for anywhere else...some of the more bon-ton shops in the US, I find, have these odd sizing problems, whereas others say JC Penneys, etc. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
The flame of beauism was expiring; but it flamed in its socket brighter than ever, and Beau Brummell made a more conspicuous figure in the supreme _bon-ton_ of elegant absurdity, than any or all his predecessors. ❋ Various (N/A)
Neither is the matter much mended, if, barring the insipidity of bon-ton company, you plunge into the formal gravity of the middle classes, or into the noisy, empty mirth of the lower. ❋ Various (N/A)
Great minds, like George Eliot's, when they wish to spend their genius in written books, will leave the lighted hall where refinement and _bon-ton_ hold their nightly revels, and will descend to the huts of laborers and mechanics that form one distinct phase of English life. ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
Emmerich was not a common mender of "old soles," but was the shoemaker to the bon-ton of Baltimore. ❋ Henry Bascom Smith (N/A)
In this respect Honor found Madame d'Alberg different from that other class of society women whose ideas of self-gratification are far subservient to the requisites of _bon-ton_ and fashion, and who endure heroically the discomfort of the latest absurdities in articles of toilet and street wear. ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
In this non-committal way he gave his comment, for he usually found a bit of classical wisdom to fit modern emergencies, and the habit had imparted an antique bon-ton to his conversation. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The parents of some of the wealthiest people of Kansas City, the bon-ton of the town, smelled of laundry soap, the curry-comb or night-soil cart. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The City of London are ready to hoist their standard; treason is the bon-ton at that end of the town; seditious papers pasted up at every corner: nay, my neighbourhood is not unfashionable; we have had them at Brentford and Kingston. ❋ Walpole, Horace (1890)
And it's not as though they were working-class or middle-class people, but aristocratic ladies, priding themselves on their _bon-ton! ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
She dressed superbly, gave elegant entertainments, and was, par excellence, the leader of bon-ton. ❋ Unknown (1872)
Lonely in his selfishness was he left to breathe out the small soul of a man of bon-ton! ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
"Just as much as Nancy Dennis is the bon-ton of Halifax," said the admiral; "though the uncle, as I told you, is a sensible fellow in his way." ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
As I have said a good deal upon it at various times during my public service, and have lately written something on it, which may yet see the light, I shall content myself now with observing that the vigorous and laborious class of life has lately got, from the _bon-ton_ of the humanity of this day, the name of the "_laboring poor_." ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
Sir, a partial repeal, or, as the _bon-ton_ of the court then was, a ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
It is the old _bon-ton_ of robbers, who cast their common crimes on the wickedness of their departed associates. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
London are ready to hoist their standard; treason is the bon-ton at that end of the town; seditious papers pasted up at every corner: nay, my neighbourhood is not unfashionable; we have had them at Brentford and Kingston. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
