"Flossy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... privation or toil—a life of moderation and regularity—of easy household duties, and quiet family affections, had restored and preserved her maiden beauty. And now her pretty hair had its own will, and fell in slight, flossy black ringlets down each side the pearly brow and cheeks; and nothing could have been more in keeping with the style of her beauty than the simple, close-fitting black gown, ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... "Et adhuc hodie plebs in Suecia, instar tabaci contra tussim fugit"—"Even to-day the Swiss people cure their coughs with Coltsfoot employed like tobacco." When the flowers are fully blown and fall off, the seeds with their "clock" form a beautiful head of white flossy silk, and if this flies away when there is no wind it is said to be a sure sign of coming rain. The Goldfinch often lines her nest with the soft pappus of the Coltsfoot. In Paris the Coltsfoot flower is painted on the doorposts of an ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... the moorland on the other side, with its other peaks and cairns, brown with withered bracken, and shadowed in moving patches by the floating clouds. The exhilarating wind brought a colour into her pale cheeks, and her flossy curls ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... troubled with nothing to do and merely desiring that everybody could be as comfortable as myself and as undesponding, and then we should have a very tolerable world of it." "I have plenty of work on hand, and writing...." This, embedded among details of an incomparable innocence: "We have got Flossy; got and lost Tiger; lost the hawk, Hero, which, with the geese, was given away, ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... have thick, flossy hair like Mimi, so that I can stroke him. Which would you rather have, a little ...
— Life and Death of Harriett Frean • May Sinclair
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