"Opera hat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one who buys my opera hat for a large sum I am giving away four square yards of linoleum, a revolving bookcase, two curtain rods, a pair of spring-grip dumb-bells and an ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
... in the evening. The curtains are drawn and the lamps lighted in the drawing room of Her flat in Cromwell Road. Her lover, a beautiful youth of eighteen, in evening dress and cape, with a bunch of flowers and an opera hat in his hands, comes in alone. The door is near the corner; and as he appears in the doorway, he has the fireplace on the nearest wall to his right, and the grand piano along the opposite wall to his left. Near the ...
— How He Lied to Her Husband • George Bernard Shaw
... is Lord This? And where my Lady That? The Honourable Mistresses and Misses? Some laid aside like an old Opera hat, Married, unmarried, and remarried: (this is An evolution oft performed of late). Where are the Dublin shouts—and London hisses? Where are the Grenvilles? Turned as usual. Where My friends the Whigs? Exactly where ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... the question." He banged open his opera hat and squeezed it shut again. "Why won't you have a simple contradiction in the press?" ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna |
