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  • Within a few days Sherpa runners began to arrive on a regular basis with packages for Pittman, shipped to Base Camp via DHL Worldwide Express; they included the latest issues of Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Allure.†   (source)
  • I DO NOT WANT TO BE ON THE COVER OF VOGUE!†   (source)
  • "You have been chosen to join the pilgrimage to the Shrike," said the image of the old CEO whom the press loved to compare to Lincoln or Churchill or Alvarez-Temp or whatever other pre-Hegira legend was in historical vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • But maybe that was in vogue here — small town names?†   (source)
  • The types came and went—one decade there would be a vogue for speedy little receivers, the next decade the demand would be for tall, lanky receivers.†   (source)
  • There was a new practice in vogue at the time, favored by adolescent boys or those who thought like them: sneak up behind a woman wearing a headscarf, grab it, and run.†   (source)
  • Y.T. goes in and looks at her mother, who has slumped down in her chair, put her hands around her face almost like she's vogueing, put bare stockinged feet up.†   (source)
  • But the deus ex machina , sometimes known in the technical jargon as 'the old parachute-under-theairplaneseat trick', finally went out of vogue around the year 1700.†   (source)
  • Peter, you do realize that talismans went out of vogue in the Middle Ages, right?†   (source)
  • The appointment was for half an hour ago, and I'm still here, sitting in the reception room flicking through Vogue, thinking about getting up and walking out.†   (source)
  • Before Rand could apologize or engage further, Tanner and Betsy arrived together, looking like a Vogue spread—crisp slacks and jewel-toned shirts and gleaming gold watches and rings—and Tanner leaned toward my ear and whispered, Let me see where we are, and then Go was rushing in, all alarmed eyes and questions: What does this mean?†   (source)
  • She was reading her tatty copy of Vogue with intense interest.†   (source)
  • I've heard that the Chief, years ago, received more than two hundred shock treatments when they were really the vogue.†   (source)
  • Now, she was sitting on my bed, flipping through an old Vogue.†   (source)
  • Ironically, the old code stuff is coming back into vogue, Puller, because we've gotten so good at cracking computerized encryption.†   (source)
  • There was none of that tricky now-you-see-me-now-you-don't business so much in vogue outside the hospital, none of that now-I-am-and-now-I-ain't.†   (source)
  • With the program, Ballou is attempting a sort of academic triage that is in vogue at tough urban schools across the country.†   (source)
  • You two look like you jumped out of an issue of Teen Vogue.†   (source)
  • Gosh, I think in admiration, did he read the article on deconstructing fashion in last month's Vogue, too?†   (source)
  • She started reading this Vogue she had with her, and I looked out the window for a while.†   (source)
  • DNA testing had not been in vogue when he was convicted—was it possible that there was some shred of carpet or couch fabric left that could corroborate Shay's account?†   (source)
  • In fact, the bathing ritual was currently in vogue among the upper class.†   (source)
  • And the color and gemstone significances in vogue for the last hundred or so years wouldn't read at all, for Seivarden.†   (source)
  • Brian had witnessed the feverish activity and how the chocolates had suddenly become a vogue, a fad, the way hula hoops had caught on when they were kids in the first or second grade, the way demonstrations had been the big thing a few years ago.†   (source)
  • At about the same time as the first department-store study, there developed a vogue among New York businesses to hire British secretaries, whose accents were thought to lend a touch of class to Manhattan offices.†   (source)
  • Granny was diagnosed as manic-depressive and was twice confined to the Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric-shock therapy, a treatment in vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • I had always imagined vampires wearing black tight-fitting leather or dark trench coats, but they wore designer outfits straight out of the pages of Vogue.†   (source)
  • But now he was struck by what she was wearing—a costume which even to his unpracticed eye appeared out of vogue, old-fashioned, but nonetheless served to set off her extraordinary loveliness: a white jacket worn over a wine-colored pleated satin skirt, a silk scarf wound around the neck, and tilted over the forehead a red beret.†   (source)
  • But Mary drew girls' faces framed with glamorous hair styles, dress designs that might have come out of Vogue, and strings of jewels like the Fifth Avenue advertisements: symbols of the life that was past.†   (source)
  • First thing you know She will subscribe to Vogue and then there's no telling how far it will go.†   (source)
  • "By the way," said Sam, "what is the latest vogue in celestial executions?†   (source)
  • The latest vogue was brooch-operas for M'lady.†   (source)
  • Soon you'll be on the cover of Vogue, and then" " "Grandm"re!"†   (source)
  • I had been raped but I had also been raised on Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.†   (source)
  • She was sitting at the kitchen table, coffee cup in front of her, flipping through Vogue.†   (source)
  • So—how come Vogue is doing a piece about you?†   (source)
  • If Suze gets in Vogue, I'll be the proudest person in the world.†   (source)
  • So after I've read my horoscope, I close Vogue and get out my new Indian recipe book.†   (source)
  • If Lawrence Taylor created a new vogue in the NFL for exceptionally violent and speedy pass rushers with his dimensions in 1981, it might be 1986 before Lemming encountered a big new wave of similarly shaped violent and speedy high school pass rushers.†   (source)
  • That it would not be good enough to match the stories everyone told or those I read in Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.†   (source)
  • I published several of these little literary turds in the various hardcopy journals then in vogue in the various arcologies of the European Houses, the amateur editors of these crude journals being as indulgent of my mother as she was of me.†   (source)
  • I sat down and picked up a copy of Vogue and flicked through it with trembling fingers, trying to focus my mind on the task ahead while at the same time attempting to look unremarkably bored, just like any other patient.†   (source)
  • "I always feel like I should buy everything and just store it, because sooner or later, it's going to come into vogue."†   (source)
  • She'd been on the cover of Vogue and did fashion correspondence on "Good Morning America," always standing in front of some fancy store with her hair all swept up and a microphone planted at her lips, telling the world about the latest in hemlines.†   (source)
  • Don't you read Vogue?†   (source)
  • In all likelihood you needn't concern yourself with EST. It's almost out of vogue and only used in the extreme cases nothing else seems to reach, like lobotomy.†   (source)
  • In a sense many whites play 'cultural catch-up,' letting the Black masses dictate what is in vogue and authentic.†   (source)
  • John Fought has studied the New South phenomenon—that vogue for Southern ways and country talk that now seems to reach farther and farther.†   (source)
  • Your frames are going to be in Vogue?†   (source)
  • Having been so cultured all morning, I deserve a bit of a treat in the afternoon, so I buy myself Vogue and a bag of Minstrels, and lie on the sofa for a bit.†   (source)
  • I get there before Elly and mutter, "Becky Bloomwood from Successful Saving," to the girl at reception, wishing I could say "Becky Bloomwood from Vogue" or "Becky Bloomwood from Wall Street Journal."†   (source)
  • "Well, she's fashion editor of Vogue now, and she spoke to Perdy, who's the interiors editor, and Perdy phoned me back—and when I told her what my frames were like, she just went wild."†   (source)
  • I'm going to be in Vogue!"†   (source)
  • But still … Vogue!†   (source)
  • Finally, the desire for novelty is indispensable if we are to produce Fashions or Vogues.†   (source)
  • Half of them are out to make a popular splash like Picabia; the other half quite simply want to earn their living doing advertisements for Vogue and decorating night clubs.†   (source)
  • Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.†   (source)
  • However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience.†   (source)
  • The hut was made in the following manner, which had then come into vogue.†   (source)
  • (alluding to a map of love much in vogue at that time).†   (source)
  • Of course I have never READ Swinburne, but years ago, when he was in vogue, I remember Mr. Warren saying that Swinburne (or was it Oscar Wilde? but anyway:) he said that though many so-called intellectual people posed and pretended to find beauty in Swinburne, there can never be genuine beauty without the message from the heart.†   (source)
  • McKisco was having a vogue.†   (source)
  • The conversation changed to a book that was having its vogue at the time—"Molding a Maiden," by Albert Ross.†   (source)
  • The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here simply to warn the reader against the impression they may have created.†   (source)
  • He stared in well-bred surprise, and presently talked of a new dance which had lately come into vogue.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Sweet railed at Pitman as vainly as Thersites railed at Ajax: his raillery, however it may have eased his soul, gave no popular vogue to Current Shorthand.†   (source)
  • For a moment Nicole was sorry it was so; remembering the glass he had raked out of the old trash heap, remembering the sailor trunks and sweaters they had bought in a Nice back street—garments that afterward ran through a vogue in silk among the Paris couturiers, remembering the simple little French girls climbing on the breakwaters crying "Dites donc!†   (source)
  • So true and well understood was this fact, that several years later a popular song, detailing this and other facts concerning the afternoon parade on matinee days, and entitled "What Right Has He on Broadway?" was published, and had quite a vogue about the music halls of the city.†   (source)
  • Well I believe I'll run in and read for just a second—want to look at the last Vogue—and then perhaps I'll go by-by.†   (source)
  • She had obtained the name and address from Doctor Gregory and she hoped he would not mind if she sometimes sent word to wish him well, etc., etc. So far it was easy to recognize the tone—from "Daddy-Long-Legs" and "Molly-Make-Believe," sprightly and sentimental epistolary collections enjoying a vogue in the States.†   (source)
  • As regarded Judge Pyncheon, it seemed probable, at first blush, that the mode of his final departure might give him a larger and longer posthumous vogue than ordinarily attends the memory of a distinguished man.†   (source)
  • Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.†   (source)
  • …light in their iris, and a fine pencilling of long lashes round, relieved the whiteness of her large front; on each of her temples her hair, of a very dark brown, was clustered in round curls, according to the fashion of those times, when neither smooth bands nor long ringlets were in vogue; her dress, also in the mode of the day, was of purple cloth, relieved by a sort of Spanish trimming of black velvet; a gold watch (watches were not so common then as now) shone at her girdle.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gascoigne's mind seemed to run on political topics, but whether relating to the past, present, or future, could not easily be determined, since the same ideas and phrases have been in vogue these fifty years.†   (source)
  • He was neatly attired in a plum-coloured coat, with as large a collar of black velvet as his figure could carry; a silken waistcoat, bedecked with golden sprigs; a chaste neckerchief much in vogue at that day, representing a preserve of lilac pheasants on a buff ground; pantaloons so highly decorated with side-stripes that each leg was a three-stringed lute; and a hat of state very high and hard.†   (source)
  • In order to give the thing vogue from the start, and place it out of the reach of criticism, I chose my nines by rank, not capacity.†   (source)
  • No longer seeking nor caring that my name should be blasoned abroad on title-pages, I smiled to think that it had now another kind of vogue.†   (source)
  • Allow me to tell you that by-and-by this style of workmanship will be the only one in vogue—half-a-crown, you said? thank you—going at half-a-crown, this characteristic fender; and I have particular information that the antique style is very much sought after in high quarters.†   (source)
  • The point in discussion was the question then in vogue: Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?†   (source)
  • It is an unsatisfactory arrangement, both for hirer and hired, and is usually in vogue on poor land with hard-pressed owners.†   (source)
  • *f The Government of the Union, in order to conceal its defeat, had recourse to an expedient which is very much in vogue with feeble governments.†   (source)
  • Rebecca's wit, cleverness, and flippancy made her speedily the vogue in London among a certain class.†   (source)
  • But indeed, at that time, putting to death was a recipe much in vogue with all trades and professions, and not least of all with Tellson's.†   (source)
  • You see, my high connexion must talk about something, sir; and it's only to get a subject into vogue with one or two ladies I could name to make it go down with the whole.†   (source)
  • There was besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost upon Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew.†   (source)
  • The materialism you advocate has been more than once in vogue already, and has always proved insufficient ….'†   (source)
  • Besides, my vogue was somewhat over.†   (source)
  • Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential confidence recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.†   (source)
  • "Without reckoning," added Monte Cristo, "that he is on the eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France."†   (source)
  • She is discussed by her dear friends with all the genteelest slang in vogue, with the last new word, the last new manner, the last new drawl, and the perfection of polite indifference.†   (source)
  • He wore the white riding-coat and top-boots, then in vogue, and the light of the fire touching their light surfaces made him look very pale, with his long brown hair, all untrimmed, hanging loose about him.†   (source)
  • The following means, among others, is in great vogue, 'is quite a favourite,' as the English say; a high official suddenly ceases to understand the simplest words, assuming total deafness.†   (source)
  • He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I will put my Flora in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a copy of Pierre de Medine's Art de Naviguer, with wood-cuts, edition of 1655.†   (source)
  • At this time the amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France, and was considerably in vogue in this country, enabling the many ladies amongst us who had beauty to display their charms, and the fewer number who had cleverness to exhibit their wit.†   (source)
  • She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.†   (source)
  • Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, escorted by two dogs,—this was still in vogue at that time,—entered his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars.†   (source)
  • Nicholas was a plain farmer: he did not like innovations, especially the English ones then coming into vogue.†   (source)
  • The band played the polonaise in vogue at that time on account of the words that had been set to it, beginning: "Alexander, Elisaveta, all our hearts you ravish quite…."†   (source)
  • Every visitor who came to the house paid his tribute to the melancholy mood of the hostess, and then amused himself with society gossip, dancing, intellectual games, and bouts rimes, which were in vogue at the Karagins'.†   (source)
  • Those pamphlets, as is generally the case with controversial writings, tho' eagerly read at the time, were soon out of vogue, and I question whether a single copy of them now exists.†   (source)
  • The publication offended the Abbe Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had form'd and publish'd a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue.†   (source)
  • This style of writing seems a little gone out of vogue, and yet it is a very useful one; and your specimen of it may be particularly serviceable, as it will make a subject of comparison with the lives of various public cutthroats and intriguers, and with absurd monastic self-tormentors or vain literary triflers.†   (source)
  • An influence also to be taken into account is that of Irish songs, once in great vogue.†   (source)
  • / Vogue Affixes in Present-Day Word-Coinage, by Louise Pound, /Dialect Notes/, vol. v, pt. i, 1918.†   (source)
  • / Vogue Affixes in Present-Day Word-Coinage, by Louise Pound, /Dialect Notes/, vol. v, pt. i, 1918.†   (source)
  • Several years ago /-heimer/ had a great vogue in slang, and was rapidly done to death.†   (source)
  • Anyhow inspection, medical inspection, of all eatables seemed to him more than ever necessary which possibly accounted for the vogue of Dr Tibble's Vi-Cocoa on account of the medical analysis involved.†   (source)
  • Besides, though taste latterly had deteriorated to a degree, original music like that, different from the conventional rut, would rapidly have a great vogue as it would be a decided novelty for Dublin's musical world after the usual hackneyed run of catchy tenor solos foisted on a confiding public by Ivan St Austell and Hilton St Just and their genus omne.†   (source)
  • …obviously addressed, looked down on the photo showing a large sized lady with her fleshy charms on evidence in an open fashion as she was in the full bloom of womanhood in evening dress cut ostentatiously low for the occasion to give a liberal display of bosom, with more than vision of breasts, her full lips parted and some perfect teeth, standing near, ostensibly with gravity, a piano on the rest of which was In Old Madrid, a ballad, pretty in its way, which was then all the vogue.†   (source)
  • Dr. Pound ascribes the vogue of /super-/ to German influences, and is inclined to think that /-dom/ may be helped by the German /-thum/.†   (source)
  • And then, when they condescend to compose a sort of verse that was at that time in vogue in Kandy, which they call seguidillas!†   (source)
  • He said, "that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined."†   (source)
  • All I shall do is to pray to heaven to deliver you from it, and show you how beneficial and necessary knights-errant were in days of yore, and how useful they would be in these days were they but in vogue; but now, for the sins of the people, sloth and indolence, gluttony and luxury are triumphant.†   (source)
  • The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:— "I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue," &c.†   (source)
  • "You have touched upon a subject, senor canon," observed the curate here, "that has awakened an old enmity I have against the plays in vogue at the present day, quite as strong as that which I bear to the books of chivalry; for while the drama, according to Tully, should be the mirror of human life, the model of manners, and the image of the truth, those which are presented now-a-days are mirrors of nonsense, models of folly, and images of lewdness.†   (source)
  • And it is highly probable, that such travellers, who shall hereafter visit the countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting my errors (if there be any), and adding many new discoveries of their own, justle me out of vogue, and stand in my place, making the world forget that ever I was an author.†   (source)
  • To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must know, friend Sancho Panza, that it was a practice very much in vogue with the knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean to improve upon it, for they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough of service and hard days and…†   (source)
  • Sancho had made his appearance in the middle of this conversation, and he was very much troubled and cast down by what he heard said about knights-errant being now no longer in vogue, and all books of chivalry being folly and lies; and he resolved in his heart to wait and see what came of this journey of his master's, and if it did not turn out as happily as his master expected, he determined to leave him and go back to his wife and children and his ordinary labour.†   (source)
  • But what most of all made me hold my hand and even abandon all idea of finishing it was an argument I put to myself taken from the plays that are acted now-a-days, which was in this wise: if those that are now in vogue, as well those that are pure invention as those founded on history, are, all or most of them, downright nonsense and things that have neither head nor tail, and yet the public listens to them with delight, and regards and cries them up as perfection when they are so far…†   (source)
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