to a child) when, suddenly, in she came, stood for a moment silent (as if she had been pretending up there, and for a moment let herself be now), stood quite motionless for a moment against a picture of Queen Victoria wearing the blue ribbon of the Garter[17]; when all at once h...
since Mr. Paunceforte had been there, three years before, all the pictures were like that, she said, green and grey, with lemon-coloured sailing-boats, and pink women on the beach. But her grandmother's friends, she said, glancing discreetly as they passed, took the greatest pains;...
reading, writing, putting the last smooth to their hair, or fastening dresses, must leave all that, and the little odds and ends on their washing-tables and dressing-tables, and the novels on the bed-tables, and the diaries which were so private, and assemble in the dining-room for ...
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The students each had two naked dolls, one male, the other female. They were asked to dress the dolls in work clothing to show that both genders could work at any job. . . . there were no dresses. All clothing was male-oriented. Then the teacher had the students sit in a circle wh...
One day, close to when it would be my turn to beStubeälteste, the one to get all the women lined up for roll call in the morning, one of my friends came up to me. “Guess what?” she said. “Every night Hanny Janssen climbs out of that little window in the guards’ room, ...
hardly at noon hath risen, girded her day dresses. Soft her touch: her fingers fluted as water- worms, sleek as the snakes of Thobya, tooth-sticks of ‘Ishali. Lighteneth she night’s darkness, ay, as an evening lamp hung for a sign of guidance lone on a hermitage. ...
The wheelbarrow, the lawnmower, the sound of poplar trees, leaves whitening before rain, rooks cawing, brooms knocking, dresses rustling—all these were so coloured and distinguished in his mind that he had already his private code, his secret language, though he appeared the image of stark ...