pekin

• “Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.”

  Les Miserables

• “February 24, 2008 at 6:52 am mum, i feelz a pekin on my hed.”

  Bird watchin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “He was, perhaps, discontented at being put in communication with a pekin, and thought that Lord Steyne should have sent him a Colonel at the very least.”

  Vanity Fair

• “The fourth and final savory course was Cherry glazed white pekin duck with flag pond pickled ramps and smoked hon shimiji.”

  Sumile's cherry blossom menu: 701 issagoodbrillian stars

• “If pekin and bayadère stripes are combined, we obtain checked fabrics, and of these an endless variety and pleasing effects can be produced with the aid of suitable color combinations.”

  Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics

• “Ant now,' he said, 'I haf got to pekin my day's work.”

  Despair's Last Journey

• “One of the queerest friendships that ever came under my observation was that which existed between a bantam cock and a pekin drake.”

  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

• “This poy -- he was a poy den -- wars so gracy to pekin reading Heine that he gommence with the tictionary bevore he knows any Grammar, and ve bick it out vort by vort togeder.”

  Complete March Family Trilogy

• “She cannot say it shust pe vorts, or tat tere pe much of ta sense in it; but it pe fery like what ta pabes will say pefore tey pekin to speak it properly.”

  Malcolm

• “Mademoiselle Baptistine bad also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.”

  Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine

Show 10 more examples...