 | William Henry Smith - 1844 - Страниц: 54
...necessary appendage of gentility, and whether they cared any tiling for music or not, they thought they 'might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion.' The father of these young ladies kept store in the village. The sign of Mr. George Drinkwater extended... | |
 | Court-partial - 1844 - Страниц: 680
...because it is the fashion to declaim in that style, and you might, you know, (as an old play says) ' as well be out of the world as out of the fashion.' People who are too ignorant to know, or too indolent to think with accuracy, imagine that by thus talking... | |
 | Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols - 1846 - Страниц: 328
...Others drink with their meals, and they drink because it is the custom. Some think that " they may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," and they want a cup of tea and a tea-spoon, or a cup of water, to keep themselves in countenance. Now... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - Страниц: 462
...more ! REMINlSCENCES OF AN OLD STAGE-COACH. BY SAВAH KOBBET S. I нл vs heard an old saying, "one might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," and I am a living, I might say dying, example of its truth — dying ; yes, a lingering, torturing... | |
 | 1851 - Страниц: 316
...suffer the mortification of being so grossly singular. All regarding it a truism that a woman "may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion." First, then, let bodice waists and their extensors be among the things that were. Never admit genteel... | |
 | John Wesley - 1851 - Страниц: 64
...priest of this sweating deity.4 The chief idol 1 No doubt the proverb originated with this sect — "As well be out of the world, as out of the fashion." 2 The tailors' art. 3 Which we translate after the modern style. The Deity of the gentry of the Minories^... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 706
...got spurs on ; I didn't exactly like the feel of it, but " Who cares," sez I to myself, "a feller may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, especially down here in York." As soon as I'd got my trousers purty well braced up I put on the Test,... | |
 | Mary Henderson Eastman - 1852 - Страниц: 570
...off her mourning, and her old nurse begged her and Alice " to buy a plenty of nice new clothes, for they might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion." They both agreed with her, for they were determined to be neither unnoticed nor unknown among the fair... | |
 | William Carleton - 1852 - Страниц: 518
...that that's the fashion at present among my tribe ; sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, you know.' " When they drew near home, they got quite thick entirely ; ' Now,' says Jack, in a good-humoured... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 424
...month. Advise her against these things, and you are answered 'it's fashionable to dress so, and one had as well be out of the world as out of the fashion.' Fashion the deuce. It's fashionable for some fools to kill themselves outright, and be done with H.... | |
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that that's the fashion at present among my tribe j sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as 'out of the fashion, you know. 
