"Ringlet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Only a ringlet of flaxen hair, Tied with a ribbon blue, Laid by the hand of a mother there— Cherished ...
— The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems • George W. Doneghy
... more than exhortation to accomplish my deliverance. She came nearer, more tenderly, more earnestly; she held the dewy globe with both hands, leaning forward, and sighed and shook her head, drooping at my pusillanimity. It was only when a ringlet had touched the rim, and perhaps the water (for a sunbeam on the surface could never have given it such a golden hue), that I took courage, clasped it, and exhausted it. Sweet as was the water, sweet as was the serenity it gave me ... ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... green of envy. Why didn't I know four months ago just a few of the precious things I see so vividly now?" Bobbie sat down at the risk of spoiling some of her preening. Also she ruffed her long (now well cared for) fingers through her short hair with distracting indifference, but not a ringlet showed any ill effects, each fell back on her broad, low forehead in its original place, without a kink of disorder ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft
... ringlet of flaxen hair, Tied with a ribbon blue, Laid by the hand of a mother there— Cherished ...
— The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems • George W. Doneghy
... Fontainebleau, when he was but fifteen years of age, and she still younger. They had been formally betrothed on that occasion by the Papal Nuncio in the presence of the French King and all the Court, and he had returned to the Escurial bearing with him a little ringlet of yellow hair, and the memory of two childish lips bending down to kiss his hand as he stepped into his carriage. Later on had followed the marriage, hastily performed at Burgos, a small town on the frontier between the two countries, and the grand public entry into Madrid with the customary ...
— A House of Pomegranates • Oscar Wilde |
