They seem always to be papered with buff-and-mustard papers and to have "pongee" sofa-cushions with frills. From Wordnik.com. [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference
A man in a soft pongee suit, with cap to match, hailed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
She pushed the pongee coat, which was carefully folded across the back of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
These are two pieces of pongee, which will do for wadded coats and jupes as well. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Billie's and Elinor's neat skirts and pongee blouses to her own faded calico dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Marjorie knelt at Katherine's other side, her hand inside Katherine's pongee blouse. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Both young women were attired in expensive boating costumes of heavy cream-colored pongee. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Nancy, minus her narrow velveteen skirt, was really a beguiling figure in blue pongee knickerbockers. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Cheesecloth, scrim, aurora cloth, pongee, linen, and velours, are a few of the materials that can be used. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
"But khaki skirts, cousin, and rubber-soled shoes and pongee blouses, -- water couldn't injure things like that.". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Pyjamas of Madras or pongee silk, very effective and pretty, can be had for a dollar and a half to three dollars a suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
How well I remember the afternoon when I sat down confidingly on the freshly-furbished porch rail in my best pongee dress. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Part of a pongee silk shirt still hung on the body. From Wordnik.com. [With Hoops of Steel] Reference
Then Betty Sheridan, cool in pongee, came briskly in. From Wordnik.com. [The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors] Reference
"I think I'll wear the blue pongee to-day, Mathilde," she said. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07] Reference
Especially was I glad to get socks and pongee suits, and shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
How can I tell of the lady of the pongee -- now that I beheld her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
Now I have here a piece of pongee silk, cut from a woman's automobile-coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Bullet] Reference
The lovely lady in white and silver smiled at the small person in brown pongee. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Mouse] Reference
"Sue, you must be married in another pongee, you NEVER had anything so becoming!". From Wordnik.com. [Saturday's Child] Reference
Tom wore khaki trousers and a pongee shirt which clung to him like wet tissue paper. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade's Double Dare] Reference
I thought that with white pongee silk as an under-dress, and then some sort of delicate -- '. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
She wore a light pongee silk travelling gown, which was the coolest garb she could think of. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Butterfly Days] Reference
Clouds of gold-dust came before my eyes again; she wore once more that ineffable grey pongee!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
At twenty, when one is something of a poet -- No: it is sufficient to see a grey pongee skirt!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
None of the names was harmonious with the grey pongee -- in truth, most of them were no prettier. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
His dusty pongee cloak and soft hat indicated that he had that morning arrived on a round of inspection. From Wordnik.com. [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference
Obtain specimens of the cocoons of the silk-worm, raw silk gros-grain cloth, pongee, and tussar silk cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
He wore a loosely cut suit of pongee silk, the collar of the shirt flowing open, and a blue scarf knotted at the throat. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet and the Piper] Reference
Harriet offered, placatingly, as she got into the front seat, and tucked the pongee robe snugly about the saffron-coloured gown. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet and the Piper] Reference
An American manager would have torn down partitions, papered in brown cartridge, curtained in pongee, and laid a hardwood floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Julia Page] Reference
The doctor was a thick-set man, dressed in pongee silk coat and trousers of the same material, closely fitting his muscular thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Voskresenie. English] Reference
Three of them were under thirty, and each wore the suit of silk pongee that in eighteen hours C. Tom, or Little Ah Sing, the C.inese. From Wordnik.com. [The White Mice] Reference
She had on the dress which he loved so much, a silver-grey merino skirt and jacket, with a blouse of white pongee silk showing in front. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
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