"Point-devise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to begin with, irritated the squire. Then an uncomfortable consciousness of a rough black coat, drab trowsers, checked cotton cravat, and splashed boots, forced itself upon him as he saw Osborne's point-device costume. He chose to consider it affectation and finery in Osborne, and was on the point of bursting out with some remark, when the butler, who had watched Osborne downstairs before making the announcement, came in to say ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... rude sailor, smelling of pitch and tar, and Antony will be a well-bred, point-device scholar, who will know how to give a lady his hand," said the ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge |
