In the atom's fizz and pop we heard possibility uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.... A new planet bloomed above us; in its light the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates. The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot; we could have anything we wanted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a turbulent moon-ridden girl... or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,... Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. I do forswear them, and I here protest, By this white glove (How white the hand, God knows!), Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taffeta phrases, silken phrases precise, Three-piled hyperbole, spruce affectation,... Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. I do forswear them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the ton...gues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »