... go up is very strait, and does rather resemble a sorry ladder. La Seignora de la Casa receives you with her gown tucked up and her dangling sleeves ; she takes time to put on her Sunday clothes while you get out of your litter, and she never omits... Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisitionde James M. Anderson - 2002 - 290 pagesAucun aperçu disponible - À propos de ce livre
| 1883 - 1060 pages
...made the new arrivals wait in their litters until she was presentable. Having at last got thus far, " you are showed a chamber whose walls are white enough,...with a thousand little scurvy pictures of saints. The beds are without curtains, the covertures of cotton, the sheets as large as napkins, and the napkins... | |
| Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) - 2005 - 568 pages
...you get out of your litter, and she never omits this, for they are all very poor and vainglorious. You are showed a chamber whose walls are white enough,...hung with a thousand little scurvy pictures of saints ; the beds are without curtains, the covertures of cotton, the sheets as large as napkins, and the... | |
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