He stooped a little as though to see over the white rails, but she was too adroit.Her face remained hidden from him by that little cloud of white lace.…Cited from A Millionaire of Yesterday, E. Phillips Oppenheim
Belts of dry bent-grass shone like gold and mossy patches glimmered luminously green.The fall looked like white lace drawn across the stones.A streak of mist touched the lofty crag, and above it a soft white cloud trailed across the sky.…Cited from The Buccaneer Farmer, by Harold Bindloss
Anne believed that she would hate that white-lace girl to the end of life.Unfortunately for Anne, a professional elocutionist was staying at the hotel and had consented to recite.…Cited from Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
But the redness showed through, as if her hands were horribly chapped.She saw a lady who had asked her to try on a white lace evening coat staring at them.…Cited from Winnie Childs, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
You were all in white, with a scarf of white lace over your hair.Cited from My Friend Prospero, by Henry Harland
He had no sooner entered the room than he noticed that it had undergone a change.Some one had taken the white lace curtains from his wife's room and put them up over his windows.Pictures in frames which had been ill-placed in the parlor now hung by his bed and over the mantelpiece.…Cited from Dixie Hart, by Will N. Harben
The light wind caught her scarf, blowing the long ends about her head.From the frame of soft white lace her eyes looked dark and solemn and very distant."I had hoped that you had no other reason than kindness."…Cited from The Deliverance, by Ellen Glasgow
I see in an account five white lace shawls sold each.Cited from Second Shetland Truck System Report, by Guthrie
Her hands, in their exquisitely fitting lilac gloves, lay carelessly across each other above the folds of the dress with which they harmonized perfectly.A little sweetbrier rose fell out from the white lace about her face, against the soft brown of her hair.Arnold pictured Laura gathering just such a rose from the porch she had described by the door of her country-home.…Cited from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 69, July, 1863, by Various
I could see that in the numerous windows hung white lace curtains.Mind you, this was in Arizona of the 'nineties!…Cited from The Killer, by Stewart Edward White
Having strapped her basket, she carried it downstairs.Her mother was ready, with a white lace scarf round her neck.…Cited from The Trespasser, by D.H. Lawrence
Going to her storeroom Peggy brought to light about three yards of white cotton net and a pistachio green mull gown, long since discarded.It was made with short white lace sleeves and low cut neck.…Cited from Navy Girl at Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson
Then his eyes turned quickly to Alice, who sat in her easy-chair, near the window.Her dress was of light blue, with square-cut neck, filled in with creamy white lace.…Cited from Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, by Charles Felton Pidgin
She carried her head high, and her masses of gray-white hair, coiled like a crown, gave her the seeming of royalty in full panoply.There was white lace over her black velvet at the shoulders; her train swept yards behind her.She was bearing a cane, or rather a staff, of ebony; but it suggested, not decrepitude, but power -- perhaps even a weapon that might be used to enforce authority should occasion demand.…Cited from Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by Phillips
The tablecloths were tolerably good linen and we had ironed them wet so they looked nice.We had white lace-paper on the shelves and we used drawn-work paper napkins.As I said, we borrowed dishes, or, that is, every woman who called herself our neighbor brought whatever she thought we would need.…Cited from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Then from this partial gloom he emerged into the drawing-room -- a dream of rose-pink and gold, with the air sweetened around him by the masses of roses and tall lilies about.His eyes were rather bewildered at first; the figures of the women seemed dark against the white lace of the windows.…Cited from Macleod of Dare, by William Black
But, when he entered his wife's bedroom, he was conscious of a vague emotion.It was a large room, hung with blue satin under white lace.…Cited from Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet, v4
His feet skidded out of marsh mud into sand.Ahead of him were dark rocks surrounded by the white lace of spray.Ross headed straight toward that spray until he stood knee-deep in the curling, foam-edged water and felt its tug on his body almost as strong as that other tug upon his mind.…Cited from The Time Traders, by Andre Norton
Sylvia got up from her chair by the window.She moved back into the room and put on a pretty white lace evening dress which she had not worn since she had been in France.It would have been absurd to have appeared in such a gown in the little dining-room of the Hotel de l'Horloge, which opened into the street; but the Villa du Lac was quite different.…Cited from The Chink in the Armour, by Marie Belloc Lowndes
They were all sitting down at a brown oak table; beautifully polished with flowers and spirals carved on the legs with the Red Queen's cards guarded the table.It had a white lace floral pattern cover on top of the table.Numerous amounts of coasters covered the entire table with raspberry tea on top of them.…
