"Showily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sat rather a showily dressed woman, with keen, sharp eyes. She took notice of the bank-note which Luke drew from the envelope, and prepared to take advantage of ...
— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger
... light had dawned upon him he was nevertheless full of faults. He dressed showily, went to races, spent his ...
— Beneath the Banner • F. J. Cross
... Shelby's reply seemed admirable. A morning paper called it "a little classic of straightforwardness"; but his king-maker aloft thought his bearing too simple by far. If he listened to her, he would tip his presidential lightning-rod more showily. ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... achieved immortality. Showily bound they make a favourite school prize and have given entertainment to generations of cultured refined persons, who have never paused in their reading to give a thought to the author of their enjoyment, the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various
... black and dark-green predominated in the chequers of the other. The third, who sate at the same table, was in the Lowland dress,—a bold, stout-looking man, with a cast of military daring in his eye and manner, his riding-dress showily and profusely laced, and his cocked hat of formidable dimensions. His hanger and a pair of pistols lay on the table before him. Each of the Highlanders had their naked dirks stuck upright in the board beside him,—an emblem, I was afterwards informed, but surely ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... German Emperor, each in the proper uniform of the other, he was received by the burgomaster and town council of Berlin with a most cordial speech, and then, passing on through the Linden, which was showily decorated, he was enthusiastically greeted everywhere. No doubt this greeting was thoroughly sincere, since all good Germans look upon Franz Josef as their ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White |
