"Evening dress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... midnight when I opened the glass door on the terrace. I had put out my lights before I drew the curtain, as I wished to see the full effect of the moonlight. Now that the rainy season is over, the moon is quite as beautiful as it was in the wet, and a great deal more comfortable. I was in evening dress, with a smoking-jacket in lieu of a coat, and I felt the air mild and mellow on the warm side, as ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker
... puts on evening dress out of deference to his sister. If young men had these good habits they would gain our respect, and lose ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... light-hearted party seated chattering round a blazing fire there came suddenly the unwelcome apparition of an exceedingly irate sahib, in evening dress and pumps, ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... between ten o'clock and midnight, go and recite to the world their ecstasies of love, their raptures, their despair, leaning mournfully against the mantel-piece, in the blaze of the lights, while seated around him women, in full evening dress, listen entranced behind ...
— Artists' Wives • Alphonse Daudet
... to her that several elderly men were forced into their first evening dress. They had thought to escape through life without that ordeal. Old Clute would have preferred to be fitted for a pine box, and would have felt about as comfortable in it. He tried to compromise with the tailor on a garment that could serve as a Prince Albert by day ...
— Mrs. Budlong's Chrismas Presents • Rupert Hughes
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