But we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between
fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
And after this
fashion, adventure to seek, Was Sir Galahad made--as it might be last week!
"I suppose it is
fashion that makes them strap our heads up with those horrid bits that I was tortured with in London," said Ginger.
"There's no telling what queer freaks
fashion will take.
Tom surrendered, and after that clothed himself in the local
fashion. But the dull country town was tiresome to him, since his acquaintanceship with livelier regions, and it grew daily more and more so.
He weaves his wonderful words in such wonderful
fashion that they sound like what he describes.
Accordingly, for the last three years-- ever since he had superintended the building of the new barn--Adam had always been made welcome at the Hall Farm, especially of a winter evening, when the whole family, in patriarchal
fashion, master and mistress, children and servants, were assembled in that glorious kitchen, at well-graduated distances from the blazing fire.
Indeed, if I were ever to get married, I am at a loss to know which way I should choose,--George Muncaster's way or the old merry
fashion, with the rice and the old shoes and the orange-blossom.
This was the good old
fashion of fireplaces when there was wood enough in the forests to keep people warm without their digging into the bowels of the earth for coal.
Her riding hat is stuck full of parti-colored feathers; her robe,
fashioned somewhat after that of the whites, is of red, green, and sometimes gray cloth, but always of the finest texture that can be procured.
But what made Montalais hold to Malicorne in an indissoluble
fashion, was that Malicorne always came cram full of fresh news from the court and the city; Malicorne always brought to Blois a
fashion, a secret, or a perfume; that Malicorne never asked for a meeting, but, on the contrary, required to be supplicated to receive the favors he burned to obtain.
It was her habit to sit in a window of her sitting-room on the ground floor, as if watching calmly for life and
fashion to flow northward to her solitary doors.
In this
fashion he covered a quarter of the distance between the two rivers, when it dawned upon him that Tudor was not on the beach at all.
No one can fill it, for the solid, homely virtues of the dear soul have gone out of
fashion, as I say, and nothing new can be half so satisfactory, to me at least."
This was through the introduction by Sir Thomas Wyatt of the Italian
fashion of lyric poetry.
