 | John Colin Dunlop - 1834 - 456 pages
...with a narrow blade, fastened to the belt round his back. He had such a strait collar, that he could neither stoop nor turn about his head. His hat was...different in the 17th from what it had been in the 1 6th century. At the Castle of Aranda, the Countess d'Aulnoy saw a picture of Elizabeth, the Queen... | |
 | 1883 - 638 pages
...on. In entering he made me a reverence after the Spanish fashion, his two legs cross one another, and stooping as women do when they salute one another; he was strongly perfumed, and they are all so." A few leagues from Madrid, Countess Danois was invited to dine at a fine house belonging... | |
 | 1883 - 1060 pages
...on. In entering he made me a reverence after the Spanish fashion, his two legs cross one another, and stooping as women do when they salute one another; he was strongly perfumed, and they are all so." A few leagues from Madrid, Countess Danois was invited to dine at a fine house belonging... | |
 | Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) - 2005 - 568 pages
...and having no heels. He made me in entering a reverence after the Spanish fashion, his two legs cross one another and lowly stooping as women do when they...salute one another ; he was strongly perfumed, and they are all so ; his visit was not long ; he was very brisk ; he forgat not to tell me he was off... | |
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His hat was of a prodigious size, with a great band, larger than a mourning one, twisted about it. His shoes were of as fine leather as that whereof gloves are made, and all slashed and cut, notwithstanding the cold, and so exactly close to his feet,... 