"Parasol" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mrs. GREEN becomin' so exsited that she whacked me over the head with her parasol in a ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 • Various
... splendid bay horse, and without a footman, (mark, if you please, that delicate sign of respectability,) and after a moment's examination of Mrs. S. M.'s toilette, her manners, little dog, carnation-colored parasol, &c., Miss Elizabeth Clapperclaw clapped to the opera-glass with which she had been regarding the new inhabitant of Our Street, came away from the window in a great flurry, and began poking her fire in a fit of ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Devans, a boy three years younger than I, called to tell me a little innocent secret his sister had sent by him, and wasn't there mamma, as straight as a marshal, in one chair, and my governess, stiff as my new parasol-top, in the other, and he couldn't say a word? But you know he met me in the street that day you walked out with me, and ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... parasol Above her playmate's head, Lest the hot sun should touch her doll, And fade the lovely red In dolly's rosy cheek that lies, Or ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... to cross the road and walk along by the side of The Row," he said jerkily. "If you see anyone you recognize, take off your hat. And, Mrs. Pleydell, you lower your parasol." ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
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