I promised this
trimming to Anna to remember me by, and I would not disappoint the dear girl for the world."
So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and
trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.
Whipping up the skirt of her dress on her knee, she bent forward over it, and set herself industriously to the repair of the torn
trimming. In this position her lithe figure showed charmingly its firm yet easy line.
"It's a thousand yards round that skirt, as well I know, having hemmed it; but I could sew pretty
trimming on if it was from here to Milltown.
"There are two; then that piqu, is all right, if you cut the tail off the jacket and change the
trimming a bit.
"It isn't very pretty," said Rose, who was
trimming the chimney-piece with glossy holly sprays.
It requires less effort in handling; the
trimming of the sail-planes to the wind can be done with speed and accuracy; the unbroken spread of the sail-area is of infinite advantage; and the greatest possible amount of canvas can be displayed upon the least possible quantity of spars.
The count approached the window, and leaning out, called to Grimaud, who showed his head from an arbor covered with jasmine, which he was occupied in
trimming.
Yards, furlongs, miles arose; and on went old John in the pleasantest manner possible,
trimming off an exuberance in this place, shearing away some liberty of speech or action in that, and conducting himself in his small way with as much high mightiness and majesty, as the most glorious tyrant that ever had his statue reared in the public ways, of ancient or of modern times.
'Now,' said Mr Swiveller, putting two sixpences into a saucer, and
trimming the wretched candle, when the cards had been cut and dealt, 'those are the stakes.
The constant toil of trimming yards they faced willingly.
During the night we had been heading all round the compass, trimming the yards again and again, to what I fear must have been for the most part im- aginary puffs of air.
'Perhaps,' said Miss Jenny, holding out her doll at arm's length, and critically contemplating the effect of her art with her scissors on her lips and her head thrown back, as if her interest lay there, and not in the conversation; 'perhaps you'll explain your meaning, young man, which is Greek to me.--You must have another touch of blue in your
trimming, my dear.' Having addressed the last remark to her fair client, Miss Wren proceeded to snip at some blue fragments that lay before her, among fragments of all colours, and to thread a needle from a skein of blue silk.
I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no
trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies.
