Elites have worn gold-trimmed waistcoats and perukes, resplendent Imperial dress, business suits, or baggy green uniforms with little red stars. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Wig, said my master, he wants none; for his own venerable white locks are better than all the perukes in England. — ❋ Unknown (2006)
By reason of their great perukes it was hard to tell how old they were; but the one who was speaking seemed the youngest, although he was the chief of them. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Burnishing the horizontal pictures, it broke up against these in delicate lines where there were cracks in the varnish, and from all these great black squares framed in with gold stood out here and there some lighter portion of the painting — a pale brow, two eyes that looked at you, perukes flowing over and powdering red-coated shoulders, or the buckle of a garter above a well-rounded calf. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Here was merchandise, here the pack and the bale; snuffy men in perukes, knee-breeched and portly, came and piped in high English, managing the transport of their munitions ashore. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
What a formidable assemblage of sable suits, and tremendous perukes! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
That gentleman, in his gray cloth, with some fine Mechlin lace at throat and wrists, and wearing only his order of the Cincinnati, overtopped all the other ambassadors in stately bearing, and looked more noble than did most of the marquises and counts and dukes in their brocades and powdered perukes and glittering decorations -- or, at least, so thought ❋ Carter Goodloe (N/A)
The clergie also were vsed verie streightlie, and (as I suppose) not without good cause; for suerlie in those daies it was far out of order, not onelie in couetous practises, but in all kinds of worldlie pompe and vanitie: for they had vp bushed and braided perukes, long side garments verie gorgeous, gilt girdels, gilt spurs, with manie other vnséemelie disorders in attire. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
The backs of those in the distance, behung with bags, major perukes, pinners, &c. are most laughably ludicrous. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)
In general, language is now characterized by greater simplicity: we no longer wear perukes, we no longer write in lace frills: but there is one significant difference between us and almost all of our ancestors -- and it is the source of our exaggerations -- our nervousness. ❋ Charles Wagner (N/A)
A hair dresser's shop up to the end of last century was also different in appearance from one to-day, and was furnished with perukes, or wigs for all sorts of heads. ❋ Alfred Kingston (N/A)
The best parlor, which was never opened but on particular occasions, was furnished with Turk-worked chairs, and hung round with portraits of his ancestors -- the men, some in the character of shepherds with their crooks, dressed in full suits and huge full-bottomed perukes, and others in complete armor or buff-coats; the females, likewise as shepherdesses with the lamb and crook, all habited in high heads and flowing robes. ❋ Various (N/A)
They were proud of their noses under Francis the First, of their perukes under Louis XIV, and later on of their appetites and stoutness. ❋ Various (N/A)
How a dashing Frenchman loved a fair lady of England, in the days of powder, patches and perukes. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A cavalcade of glittering horsemen with their flowing perukes, ruffles, gay coats, plumed hats, and all the extravagances of the costume of even the fighting man of 'good King Charles's golden days.' ❋ Unknown (1911)
My curls, I mind, tumbled forward thicker than those foppish French perukes. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Further down, dressed in black, with vast pointed perukes and shaven faces, are the bailiff, ❋ Unknown (1902)
It is true that the men, despite their fine clothes and powdered perukes, preferred a horse's back to the motion of a lumbering coach, but during the winter season their wives and daughters, in the shining stuffs, the pointed bodices, the elaborate head-dress of Europe, visited ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
In a drawing-room hung with portraits of high-nosed personages in perukes and orders, a circle of ladies and gentlemen, looking not unlike every-day versions of the official figures above their heads, sat examining with friendly interest a little boy in mourning. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
