1 Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more precious and more proudly worn because of it, finery flaunted with an added pride as an extra affront to the Yankees.
2 She was wearing a new green challis dress trimmed with yards and yards of black rickrack braid and a new lace house cap which Aunt Pitty had made for her.
3 Her hair was demure, low on her forehead with a parting and a coiled braid.
4 It lay in a long braid on the sofa pillow, coiled like a golden serpent.
5 "It's not the fashion, but it's becoming, and I can't afford to make a fright of myself," she used to say, when advised to frizzle, puff, or braid, as the latest style commanded.
6 Years ago she had said that when she married she would braid it in sevens.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 7 Her recent graduation from a skinny pickaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
8 Two black braids fell on either side of her face and her closed eyes were sunken in twin purple circles.
9 Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.
10 Laurie leisurely departed to recover the lost property, and Jo bundled up her braids, hoping no one would pass by till she was tidy again.
11 These locks were braided with gems, and, being worn at full length, intimated the noble birth and free-born condition of the maiden.
12 The sun, where it could catch it, made a mirror of Thomasin's hair, which she always wore braided.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 13 On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 14 She had braided it in sevens today.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 15 They were no longer ruffled but were gathered up in scalloped festoons, showing braided petticoats beneath.