"Pongee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lovers; anybody could see that. And they weren't poets or anything of the sort; you could see that, too. She was in a little trim white pongee street suit, with a close little hat above a little rosy, powdered, cheerful face. He had rather heavy shoulders and a shock of carefully brushed straight light hair, and looked about one year out of Harvard. ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... narrow velveteen skirt, was really a beguiling figure in blue pongee knickerbockers. The straight velveteen jacket reached just below her waist, and with her rumpled curls and weary expression she might easily have been taken for Rosalind, just arrived at the Forest of ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes
... was one to challenge attention anywhere. He wore a loosely cut suit of pongee silk, the collar of the shirt flowing open, and a blue scarf knotted at the throat. On one of his long dark hands there was a blazing sapphire ring, and about his wide- brimmed Panama hat the folded silk was of the ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... warm from walking, and I, in my pareu and light coat of pongee silk, looked longingly at the water sparkling in the sun, but the princess took me by the ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... Kennedy made a dive for it and unwrapped it. It was a woman's pongee automobile-coat. He held it up to the light. The pocket on the right-hand side was scorched and burned, and a hole was torn clean through it. I gasped when the full significance of it ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... unfastening of her pongee traveling gown, preparatory to bathing her throat, face and hands, dusty from ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... her suit and blouse, slipped on a pongee kimono that she got out of her hand-bag, unlocked her trunk and began discharging its contents all about the room. She covered the chairs with them, the bed, the narrow table—that had never had anything upon it but that Fra Angelico triptych and the ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... just a perceptible wabble of the machine. Its hot pace slackened abruptly. It rolled past and came to a stop beside the road fifty yards along—a massive brute of a red roadster driven by a slim girl in a pongee suit, a girl whose bare head was bound about with heavy braids ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... to her chauffeur's duties through a moment of silence, was no match for Mr. West at the game of ethical debate, and knew it. However, she held a very strong card in her pongee sleeve, and she knew ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... just nice and friendly; it's a small town. If I were you I'd choose a tan; a veiling gown, like this first one we showed you, only tan. Then you could put the difference in price into a coat;—we have some smart ones in tan,—with a light pongee duster to slip over it all, if she's driving ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson |
