"Floss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Red floss Mountain's" wrapped in gloom, And "Silas Pettibone's shef-doover" Has long since vanished from the room With "Casey" ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she experienced a moment of ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... detonation was deafening; it rattled the windows, it seemed to bulge the very walls. Blake felt a heavy blow which drove the floss-filled pillows against his body with the force of a giant hammer, it tore them from his grip, it crushed the breath from his lungs and spun him half around. Seeing that he did not fall, Maruffi cocked and fired a second ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... his coat. His beard had been prepared in the holy land, and was patriarchal. He never shaved, and rarely trimmed it. It was glossy, soft, clean, and altogether not unprepossessing. It was such that ladies might desire to reel it off and work it into their patterns in lieu of floss silk. His complexion was fair and almost pink, he was small in height, and slender in limb, but well-made, and his voice was of particular sweetness.manner and dress he was equally remarkable. He had none of the mauvaise honte ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... said presently; "do you remember in The Mill on the Floss, when Maggie Tulliver closed the golden gates of childhood behind her? I can almost see them swing; almost hear them clang; and I can't tell whether I ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... have found myself in London society. I suppose Ellen and Mary [her nieces] would like to know what I wore on one occasion. I had on a sky-blue glace silk, with three flounces, which were embroidered with white floss, making a very silvery shine. The dress had low neck and short sleeves; but I wore a jacket of starred blonde with flowing sleeves; and had round me also a shawl of Madeira lace, which, though very airy, fleecy, and cloud-looking, is warm and soft. ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... unnatural girl!" cried Mrs. Floss. "Why shouldn't you take the poor baby with you? Wouldn't he like a sight of the park and the green trees as well as you? If you take the baby with you, I'll give you each another penny, and an extra one for the baby, and you can all have a good time; ...
— A Big Temptation • L. T. Meade
... Good Friends— Lillie, Carrie and Floss. The Three little Kittens. Four-footed Friends and Favorites. Cock Robin. Tit, Tiny and Tittens, The ...
— Aunt Kitty's Stories • Various
... lighted softly on an ottoman, and sank gracefully back with a weary-o'-the-world air; and when she had settled down like so much floss silk, fixing her eye on the ceiling, and doling her words out languidly yet thoughtfully—just above a whisper, "Uncle, darling," inquired she, "where are the men we have all ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... an actual fascination to her, and he dismissed it. But even the most familiar spectator, like Sophy, could see that Miss Sally had the softest pink complexion, the silkiest hair, that looked as the floss of the Indian corn might look if curled, or golden spider threads if materialized, and eyes that were in bright gray harmony with both; that the frock of India muslin, albeit home-made, fitted her figure perfectly, ...
— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte |
