 Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with...  Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside - Page 2931853Full view - About this book
 | Gladys Edson Locke - 1913 - 316 pages
...and Dutch. Whoever speaks to her it is kneeling, now and then she raises some with her hand. . . . A Bohemian Baron had letters to present to her; and...sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell on their knees. The ladies... | |
 | Gladys Edson Locke - 1913 - 316 pages
...glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell on their knees. The ladies of the Court followed next to her. . . . she was guarded on each side by... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1914 - 586 pages
...she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand sparkling with rings and jewels to kiss, a mark of particular favor. Wherever she turned her face as she was going along every body fell down on their knees. "The ladies of the court followed next to her, countesses, baronesses... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English drama (Comedy) - 1914 - 772 pages
...account (1598) of the Queen's progress through the Presence-chamber at Greenwich to her chapel — 'Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.' Shakspere's England. New Shak. Soc., Part I, Appendix II, LXXVI. Dreading the bitter... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1915 - 612 pages
...one with her hand. While we were there a certain Bohemian baron, William Slawata, presented letters to her, and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand sparkling with rings and jewels to kiss, a mark of particular favor. Wherever she turned her face as... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - Barns - 1915 - 606 pages
...one with her hand. While we were there a certain Bohemian baron, William Slawata, presented letters to her, and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right (ID hand sparkling with rings and jewels to kiss, a mark of particular favor. Wherever she turned her... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions - Anniversaries - 1916 - 724 pages
...her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her ;...sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour : where ever she turned her face, as she was going along, every body fell down on their knees.... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Dramatists, English - 1917 - 398 pages
...her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her Hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her ;...sparkling' with rings and jewels, a mark of particular Favour : 1 " At this distance of time it is difficult to say what it was." Note by Horace Walpole in... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 460 pages
...to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her; and...sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour ; wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, every body fell down on their knees.... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 448 pages
...W. Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her; and she, after pullintr off her clove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour; wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, every body fell down on their knees.... | |
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