"Chic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... infrequently leads to a desire to chic the appearance of one's "out-of-doors." We give an example of a perfectly commonplace barn made interesting by adding green latticework, a small iron balcony, ornamental gate and setting out a few decorative ...
— The Art of Interior Decoration • Grace Wood
... "Chic-chickadee dee!" I saucily say; My heart it is sound, my throat it is gay! Every one that I meet I merrily greet With a chickadee dee, chickadee dee! To cheer and to cherish, on roadside and street, My cap was made jaunty, my note ...
— Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] - A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life • Various
... a chic way of tossing her head to one side, and holding her arms as if for action—not listlessly. In front of the line this showed ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... perfumed mind, that there are no shoe stores here. Shoo stores!! "Booteries," these are. Combined with "hosieries." Countless are the smart hat shops for women. That is to say, the establishments of "chapeaux importers." In the miniature parlours framed by the windows' glass these chic and ravishing creations, the chapeaux, rise in a row high upon their slim and lovely stems. This one is the establishment of Mlle. Edythe, that of Mme. Vigneau. Countless, too, are the terrestrial heavens devoted to "gowns." Headless they stand, ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... shut she could see herself quite plainly at the party. She looked like herself, only much prettier. Yes, and a little older, perhaps. Her pink dotted mull was easily recognizable, though it had taken on a certain ethereally chic quality—as if a rosy cloud had been manipulated by French fingers. Her hair was a soft, bright, curling triumph. And when she moved she was graceful as ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... was cut out for a man milliner after all," he mused complacently. "Those bows have really a very chic appearance." ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham
... gentleman, distingue, chic, an officer of the Legion of Honor, about fifty years old. He was supporting her as I had supported her myself when we were ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant |
