"Smoking jacket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... probably not be back till Monday. You can put up my dress clothes, my smoking jacket, and all the ...
— The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • Oscar Wilde
... Mr. Mitchell slipped into a smoking jacket with a violent velvet lining and sat in his den—a den bedecorated after the manner known to the muddle-minded as artistic, but more aptly described by Sir Anthony Gloster as "beastly." To this den came now the sprightly clerk, summoned ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... around to the wing, and through a glass door into a big room that was all windows on three sides, above the wainscoting. The room was full of boys and young men, seated on long divans or perched on the arms of easy chairs, and they were all talking at once. On one of the couches a young man in a smoking jacket lay reading as composedly ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather
... to Mr. St. John's room, the latter took off his clerical coat and waistcoat, and put on a coloured smoking jacket, which had the curious effect of transforming him from an ascetic looking High Churchman into what, from his refined, intellectual, clean-shaven face, and rather long straight hair, most people would have mistaken for an actor suffering ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... With our tea they served us cutlets, boiled eggs, butter, honey, cheese, and so on. Two footmen in clean white gloves swiftly and silently anticipated our faintest desires. We sat on a Persian divan. Arkady Pavlitch was arrayed in loose silk trousers, a black velvet smoking jacket, a red fez with a blue tassel, and yellow Chinese slippers without heels. He drank his tea, laughed, scrutinised his finger-nails, propped himself up with cushions, and was altogether in an excellent humour. After making a hearty ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev |
