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The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, read more
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your read more
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your head shall gently houer,
Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
And with their nimble wings shall fan you
That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
And like umbrellas, with their feathers
Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an read more
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an Indian waste without a tree.
The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as
much denotes the grandee as the star or garter read more
The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as
much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the read more
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily read more
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,
Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,
Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,
To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;
Or sweating slaves support the shady load,
When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;
Britain in winter only knows its aid,
To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.