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"Toque" Quotes from Famous Books

... purse, and her evening cloak had pockets. The evening cloak lay beside the yellow chiffon gown, carefully disposed on the bed, which had a lace counterpane over yellow satin. The cloak was of a creamy cloth lined with mink, a sumptuous affair, and she had a tiny mink toque with one ...

— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... of divided interest had crept into the lady's tone rather than her words. Colville could feel that she was waiting for the right moment to turn her delicate head, sculpturesquely defined by its toque, and steal an imperceptible glance at him: and he involuntarily afforded her the coveted excuse by the slight noise he made in changing his position in order to be able to go away as soon as he had seen whether she was pretty or not. At forty-one ...

— Indian Summer • William D. Howells

... were coming I would have borrowed a cap," she said. "Miss Tripp, third floor front, has a nice one. If you'll take me in my toque—" ...

— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... her rather rude words, presented a very charming spectacle as she stood on the steps. She was dressed not only in the height of the fashion, but wore such a perfectly captivating little toque at the back of her head as to fire the fancy and take the little wit which she possessed out of ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... Carew left her and she called the maid, who brought at her bidding a long black cloak and a small black toque—insignificant compared to anything ...

— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward

... an exclamation called forth by the fact that the last person to alight from the bus was a slim young person in a trim, tailored, navy blue suit and a tiny black velvet toque whose air bespoke Paris, a person with eyes which were precisely the color of violets which grow in the ...

— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... all sorts of things," laughed Wendy. "Vests, and nightdresses, and stockings, and anything we could lay our hands on. I'm specially padded over the shoulders. The toque is one of Diana's hats turned inside out with some feathers pinned on. The tooth? Why, that was a piece of india-rubber tucked inside my lip. It was fearfully difficult to make it stick, I can tell you. It kept ...

— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

Words linked to "Toque" : woman's hat, chapeau, hat, lid, millinery