"Wine-colored" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when I unpacked the large trunk from Dr. Enders's, I found I had just two dresses for winter; a handsome blue silk I bought just two years ago last spring, and one heavy blue merino that does not fit me. What an outfit for winter! Miriam has two poplins and a black silk, and mother a wine-colored merino, only. But each of us is blessed with a warm cloak, and are correspondingly grateful. I was confident I had saved my green, dark blue, and brown silk dresses, but the Yankees saved them instead, for me, ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... descended from a throne of faded wine-colored velvet, and addressed the Princess with her most impressive and ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... two dresses for winter; a handsome blue silk I bought just two years ago last spring, and one heavy blue merino that does not fit me. What an outfit for winter! Miriam has two poplins and a black silk, and mother a wine-colored merino, only. But each of us is blessed with a warm cloak, and are correspondingly grateful. I was confident I had saved my green, dark blue, and brown silk dresses, but the Yankees saved them instead, for me, or their suffering sweethearts, ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson |
