"Fleshings" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the drab little street, that she was as much a legend as a real person. No one knew exactly how she had come by the name of "Duchess." There were misty, unsupported stories that long, long ago she had been a shapely and royal figure in colored fleshings, and that her title had been given her in those her ruling days. Also there was a vague story that she had come by the name through an old liking for the romances of that writer who put forth her, or his, or their, prolific extravagances under the exalted pseudonym of "The Duchess." Also there was ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott
... to-night, isn't it?" said this girl, arrayed in pink fleshings and an imitation golden helmet. She also carried a ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... a liberal sounding of the brasses. Upon this appeared at the back a counterfeit President of the United States, guarded on either side by a female militia—or were they perhaps secret-service agents?—in striking uniforms consisting of pink fleshings partially draped ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street |
