But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her; all children loving her; she, grown learned in childish lore; thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised; trying hard to know her humbler fellow-creatures, and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, - she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or
fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, - did Louisa see these things of herself?
For the house party had already flung themselves impatiently into fancy dress, and the lawyer, with his neat black suit and red hair, was the only modern figure among them.
They told me I must put on fancy dress; so I did put on fancy dress, according to my own taste and fancy.
'Who's that little boy with the light hair and pink eyes, in a
fancy dress?'inquired Mr.
In fact he would certainly have done so, had not Ruby unearthed some old pantomime paste jewels she had worn at a
fancy dress party as the Queen of Diamonds.
With these magnificent portraits, unworthily confined in a band-box during his seclusion among the market-gardens, he decorates his apartment; and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of
fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of prospect, and is backed up by every variety of flower-pot and balustrade, the result is very imposing.
A great chest, full of old clothes and
fancy dresses, and what not.
Children involved in the
fancy dress competition and representatives from community groups also joined the parade.
This year there are plenty of
fancy dress outfits to buy in the supermarkets and in high street stores.
IT'S the
fancy dress outfit that has taken the internet by storm.
Donning
fancy dress - or just their swimwear - daredevils ran from the beach into the water and all for charitable causes.
The Trampolining Society has said they will now be changing their annual
fancy dress theme.