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...suffused the tear-stained cheek of the maiden as she saw a frill of "Hamburg edging" peeping from under the modest coat-sleeve of the youth. He gave one look, and a long, convulsive shudder shook his manly frame as he perceived a shirt-button peeping from beneath the lace about her neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CO-EDUCATIONAL INCIDENT. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...lace and silken sheen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

Accompanying a piece of Macrame lace sent by a young lady to a Harvard Sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

Circling her brow, and filmy lace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYTHOLOGY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...orator, Miss Margaret Tippet, a lady whose massive brow was partly shaded by a halo of auburn curls, and who wore a dark gray polonaise trimmed with Valenciennes lace was loudly applauded on rising to deliver her oration. As this was in Greek, we have tried to translate it as literally as possible, although feeling how incompetent we are to reproduce the sparkling freshness of the original. The speaker began by alluding to the many victories which the class of '79 had won. "When we first entered these classic porticos," (she said), "it had been the custom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT AT WELLESLEY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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