Ribbon
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'I congratulate you,' she said, indicating the
ribbon
by a look.
From the Voreux to Marchiennes this canal ran straight, like a dull silver
ribbon
two leagues long, an avenue lined by large trees, raised above the low earth, threading into space with the perspective of its green banks, its pale water into which glided the vermilion of the boats.
On the Marchiennes side the road unrolled its two leagues of pavement, which stretched straight as a
ribbon
soaked in cart grease between the reddish fields.
Where are you going to?""I'm going to Montsou to buy a
ribbon
for my bonnet.
don't go and buy that
ribbon
at Maigrat's.
An idea of economy had come to her, a sort of superstitious fear, the certainty that that
ribbon
would bring her bad luck if she were to buy it now.
Then, one thing leading to another, she told him, without knowing how, about the blue
ribbon
which she had not been able to buy.
She blushed, feeling that it would be best to refuse again, but possessed by a strong desire to have the
ribbon.
When Maigrat saw lanky Chaval and Catherine coming to his shop like two lovers who are buying their engagement gifts, he became very red, and exhibited his pieces of blue
ribbon
with the rage of a man who is being made fun of.
The canal on this side cut it with a long icy
ribbon.
Every filament or ribbon, no matter how thin, stood ramrod straight.
Its distance still kept us from distinguishing the colors of its pennant, which was fluttering like a thin
ribbon.
And then along the highroad, spreading out its long
ribbon
of dust, along the deep lanes that the trees bent over as in arbours, along paths where the corn reached to the knees, with the sun on his back and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the joys of the past night, his mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they are digesting.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he wore a little queue tied with black
ribbon.
Her belt was a corded girdle with great tassels, and her small garnet coloured slippers had a large knot of
ribbon
that fell over her instep.
On the other side there were canvas booths, where cotton checks, blankets, and woollen stockings were sold, together with harness for horses, and packets of blue ribbon, whose ends fluttered in the wind.
All the waist-coats were of velvet, double-breasted; all the watches had, at the end of a long ribbon, an oval cornelian seal; everyone rested his two hands on his thighs, carefully stretching the stride of their trousers, whose unsponged glossy cloth shone more brilliantly than the leather of their heavy boots.
Leon, on the floor by her side, found under his hand a
ribbon
of scarlet silk.
Then, if his eyes fell upon the workbox, a
ribbon
lying about, or even a pin left in a crack of the table, he began to dream, and looked so sad that she became as sad as he.
By dint of a strong arm, however, it grew to the desired length, under the experienced eye of the peddler, who conscientiously added a
ribbon
of corresponding brilliancy with the calico; and Caesar hastily withdrew, to communicate the joyful intelligence to his aged partner.
He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of
ribbon.
To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue
ribbon
and the flowers in their hair.
Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to "expression" and punctuation.
In one place, far from the section usually traversed by tourists, the names "BECKY & TOM" had been found traced upon the rocky wall with candle-smoke, and near at hand a grease-soiled bit of
ribbon.
Mrs. Thatcher recognized the
ribbon
and cried over it.
On the other side, in a narrower show case, were piled up large balls of green wool, white cards of black buttons, boxes of all colours and sizes, hair nets ornamented with steel beads, spread over rounds of bluish paper, fasces of knitting needles, tapestry patterns, bobbins of ribbon, along with a heap of soiled and faded articles, which doubtless had been lying in the same place for five or six years.
A gold eye-glass was suspended from his neck by a short, broad, black ribbon; a gold snuff-box was lightly clasped in his left hand; gold rings innumerable glittered on his fingers; and a large diamond pin set in gold glistened in his shirt frill.
A fine and white stocking, a silken robe, a lace kerchief, a pretty slipper on the foot, a tasty
ribbon
on the head do not make an ugly woman pretty, but they make a pretty woman beautiful, without reckoning the hands, which gain by all this; the hands, among women particularly, to be beautiful must be idle.
For tell me, where can you find a love like mine--a love which neither time, nor absence, nor despair can extinguish, a love which contents itself with a lost ribbon, a stray look, or a chance word?
"There," said he, drawing from the casket a large bow of blue
ribbon
all sparkling with diamonds, "there are the precious studs which I have taken an oath should be buried with me.
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