I had been driven with a check-rein by the dealer, and I hated it worse than anything else; but in this place we were reined far tighter, the coachman and his master thinking we looked more
stylish so.
Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire--a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a
stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness--you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr.
A rather slight dark- haired young man was entering the bar, with a very
stylish pretty woman at his side.
At the corner of the pavement, in a short,
stylish overcoat and a low-crowned fashionable hat, jauntily askew, with a smile that showed a gleam of white teeth and red lips, stood Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant, young, and beaming.
"Yes, sir, as hard as they can talk, and Miss Rose don't seem to know what to do, for the things are ever so
stylish, and she looks elegant in 'em; though I like her best in the old ones," answered Phebe.
She wanted an excellent and
stylish fit, she told the young fellow who served her, and she did not mind the difference of a dollar or two more in the price so long as she got what she desired.
The fellow was exceedingly grateful, for had he lost that ninth life it would have been the end of him; so he begged permission to furnish me with the
stylish costume I now wear.
Five minutes later, Tom Thurston entered, and Julia Monson came down to receive HIM, her pique not interfering, and it being rather
stylish to be disengaged on the morning of the day when the household was in all the confusion of a premeditated rout.
At the same time she was simpler in manner than most of the ladies present, and many people (as he heard afterward from Janey) were disappointed that her appearance was not more "
stylish" --for stylishness was what New York most valued.
He was preceded by a bodyguard of gentlemen on horseback in showy uniforms, his carriage-horses (there appeared to be somewhere in the remote neighborhood of a thousand of them,) were bestridden by gallant-looking fellows, also in
stylish uniforms, and after the carriage followed another detachment of bodyguards.
The old count had money enough that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, acquiring a trotter of his own, very
stylish riding breeches of the latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, passed his time very gaily.
Rather
stylish and high-toned for a stenographer, I'd say.