Need I say that the periwig is a triumph of the friseur's art? ". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
Above is a medallion of one wearing a full periwig. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Notice the platinum highlights in his powdered periwig. From Wordnik.com. ['Woven Frescoes'] Reference
He wears an immense periwig flowing down over his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the lost hair of another man. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedy of Errors] Reference
This sounds a lot more like Sammy Glick in a periwig than good old George. From Wordnik.com. [Cherry Tree? Let's Negotiate] Reference
Swords were worn by the gallants, and the periwig was seen everywhere in high society. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
So off the locks were cut, and in his black suit and periwig little Poinsinet went abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
“This is Sir Roger Musgrave,” he said, pointing to a long-faced person in a black periwig. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The colour of his hair could not be discovered, as, according to the fashion, he wore a periwig. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
I dined with Mrs. Vanhomrigh, where I keep my best gown and periwig, to put on when I come to town and be. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
When he was in Chelsea they were in London, and it was convenient to keep his best gown and periwig there. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
It had been known and used before, as had the periwig, but it was not until his reign that it became common. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
I could plead a cessio myself without the inspiring honours of a gown and three-tailed periwig — Listen. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
I suppose I could weave my own periwig out of the thousands of strands I've recovered over the last few years. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Why Toupees are Tops!] Reference
Call the beau sweet Gentleman; bless even his coat or periwig; and tell him they are happy ladies where he's going. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Two years before, I remembered, I had worn lace and periwig on this day, and had stood in his majesty's antechamber. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
I think a modern in an antique dress as just an object of ridicule as an Hercules or Marius with a periwig and chapeau bras. 21. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsten Williams: "From Gentility to Republicanism"] Reference
The poor dupe, without his periwig, in the back-ground, forms a good contrast of character: he is maudlin drunk, and sadly sick. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Actors at that time were often robustious, periwig-pated fellows who sawed the air with their hands and tore a passion to tatters. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
I was busy at home, and set out late this morning, and dined with Mrs. Vanhomrigh, at whose lodgings I always change my gown and periwig. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
England bearing everything used upon the plantations from match-locks and armour to satin bodice and perfumed periwig, from plow and spit to. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
His light-brown hair — for he wore no periwig, notwithstanding the universal fashion of the time — became the bonnet which surmounted it. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Hogarth, medicine was a mystery, and there were three things which distinguished the physician, -- his gravity, his cane-head, and his periwig. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The old fellow, in a black periwig, has a most vinegar-like aspect, and looks with great contempt at the frippery gentlewoman immediately before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Nothing, indeed, is more notable than the heroic quality of the verses that our little sensualist in a periwig chose out to marry with his own mortal strains. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
He had no zest in a good dinner when it fell to be eaten "in a bad street and in a periwig-maker's house;" and a collation was spoiled for him by indifferent music. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
How many days have I sat weaving hair till my toes were numbed by the cold, my fingers cramped, and my nose as blue as the sign of the periwig that hung over the door!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
And did he not himself believe, as he stood there, on his high heels, under his ambrosial periwig, that there was something in him more than man — something above Fate?. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
Although he seemed, judging from the mud he had picked up on the way, to have come from London, his horse was as smooth and cool as his own iron – grey periwig and pigtail. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
But Mr. Tusher was one of the officiants, and read from the eagle in an authoritative voice, and a great black periwig; and in the stalls, still in her black widow's hood, sat. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Finally, she grew weary of her black hair, and wore a blond periwig, which disgusting her in turn, she finished by appearing in a different head of hair every day in the week. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
He wore a black periwig as straight as the pinions of a raven, and this was covered with a hat flapped, and fastened to his head by a speckled handkerchief tied under his chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
A stout red-faced man, without a periwig, and in rather a tattered nightgown and cap, made his appearance from the parlour, and embraced his lady (for it was Captain Fitzsimons) with a great deal of cordiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
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