I left the young gentlemen of France with their hair brushed en toupet in front, and the toes of their boots round; now the boot-toes are pointed, and the hair combed flat, and, parted in the middle, falls in ringlets on the fashionable shoulders; and, in like manner, with books as with boots, the fashion has changed considerably, and it is not a little curious to contrast the old modes with the new. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres ❋ Unknown (2006)
Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But come, never mind it — You are belied, Mr. Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Revolutionary heroine could have found rest, -- its pinched, starved, and double-starched portraits of defunct Hydes, Puritanic to the very ends of toupet and periwig, -- little Mrs. Hyde was deep enough in love with her tall and handsome husband to overlook the upholstery of a home he glorified, and to care little for comfort elsewhere, so long as she could nestle on his knee and rest her curly head against his shoulder. ❋ Various (N/A)
Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's _toupet_, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)
Her dress and her toupet were black, relieved by silver sequins and a silver mounted tiara. ❋ Francis Brett Young (1919)
And the enamored, if usurping, duke wept bitterly and tore his hair to such an extent he totally destroyed his best toupet. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's toupet, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat. ❋ Lawton, Frederick (1910)
"Well, d'you mean that you have the _toupet_ to tell me there is nothing horrible in you?" ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
His _toupet_ was in a drawer close to his bed, but he had no substantial impulse to put it on, and make sure that the noise was not anything other than his sisters 'preparations for their early start. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Another thing which, in conjunction with this and his youth-giving studies, made him feel younger than ever was the discreet arrival and perfect success of his toupet. ❋ Unknown (1903)
He had ordered a toupet, he had been looked on with favour by a Guru, all Riseholme knew that he had had quite a long conversation with Lady Ambermere and nobody in Riseholme, except himself, knew that Olga Bracely was going to spend two nights here. ❋ Unknown (1903)
She had heard from the innkeeper that the Duke of Pianura's cousin, the Cavaliere Valsecca, was expected that day in Vercelli; and seeing in the Piazza a young gentleman in travelling-dress and French toupet, had at once guessed him to be the distinguished stranger from ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Montmartre; also _Fich'-moi la paix, mon petit_, and _Tu as un toupet, toi_; and the delectable locution, _Allons étrangler un perroquet_ (let us strangle a parrot), employed by Apaches when inviting each other to drink a glass of absinthe, soon became current French in the school for invitations to surreptitious cocoa-parties. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
Mrs. Clarkson had already raised her eyebrows; at this answer they disappeared behind a _toupet_ dating from her late descent upon the ❋ Unknown (1893)
Why, surely you remember, when you read me the scene in the manuscript you wrote just after our marriage, in which a good lady could not sit down upon a small chair, owing to her _toupet_, I-- your admiring and awestruck wife -- ventured to point out that a _toupet_ was not a crinoline; and you were quite grateful, Ronnie. ❋ Unknown (1891)
On the journey they wanted her to curl her toupet. ❋ Walpole, Horace (1890)
But come, never mind it --- You are belied, Mr. Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery. ❋ Unknown (1887)
