travelling-dress

• “She had to explain that she had nothing but a travelling-dress; but they waived that objection, and allowed her to “come as she was.””

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “See, even young Aldermanbury, the tallow-merchant, who has just stepped on board, has got a travelling-dress gaping all over with pockets; and little Tom”

  The Book of Snobs

• “She stood in her travelling-dress, wondering if she had forgotten anything.”

  The Years

• “My little packing here can be completed in ten minutes — my travelling-dress assumed in ten minutes more.”

  The Woman in White

• “Johanna assistance with the tickets, he stood till the train went, talking to Ephie; and he long retained a picture of her, standing with one foot on the step, in a becoming travelling-dress, a hat with a veil flying from it, and a small hand-bag slung across her shoulder, laughing and dimpling, and well aware of the admiring glances that were cast at her.”

  Maurice Guest

• “Lady Simpson when it was time for her to put on her travelling-dress.”

  Gladys, the Reaper

• “She was dressed very plainly, in a dark silk travelling-dress, and her air was remarkable only for its simple quietness, though her large eyes turned with a look of eager haste from form to form, as if she were searching for some one.”

  The Old Homestead

• “Bach was immediately sent for -- he had not time even to change his travelling-dress -- and with many excuses he presented himself to the King.”

  Story-Lives of Great Musicians

• “She didn't go at once and get off her travelling-dress, but trifled about in a kind of expectancy, a little fever going and coming in her cheeks, and turning at any noise.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

• “My gray and dingy travelling-dress grew abject, and burned into my soul like the tunic of Nessus.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863

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