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Suddenly that silly orchestra seat and the cavorting of a comedian with funny feet become matters of life, death, and immortality; you grasp pillars of the universe and strain as you sway back to that befrilled ticket girl.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

She went down the street with her head in the air, holding her dress very high to display a lace-befrilled petticoat, and clattering gracefully on two high-heeled, pointed shoes.

Maurice Guest 2003

Across the velvety turf of the green tripped Rose Lancaster, dangling a basket from her arm, a picture herself in her pink cambric frock and befrilled apron, a little French cap set upon her head which enhanced the beauty of the golden hair.

The Village by the River H. Louisa Bedford

Mrs. Cherry was treated there to a collation that so long as she lived remained distinctive, with a white-capped maid in a black dress and much befrilled apron to serve it in courses just as the other luncheon was served.

The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

Debby obeyed, and inspected herself with great interest and some astonishment; for there was a sweeping amplitude of array about the young lady whom she beheld in the much-befrilled gown and embroidered skirts, which somewhat alarmed her as to the navigation of a vessel

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

The fireplace was surrounded with loops of the same yellow damask, and the bed, the focusing point, the rococo pièce de résistance of the whole room, was befrilled and befurbelowed until its original shape was lost altogether.

Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

The fireplace was surrounded with loops of the same yellow damask, and the bed, the focusing point, the rococo pièce de résistance of the whole room, was befrilled and befurbelowed until its original shape was lost altogether.

Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

Lines of motors were rolling down the road from early morning onward, filled with flannel-coated or befrilled holiday makers or laden with farmers and farmers 'wives and farmers' children.

The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

Lines of motors were rolling down the road from early morning onward, filled with flannel-coated or befrilled holiday makers or laden with farmers and farmers 'wives and farmers' children.

The Windy Hill 1922

Mabel, rouged and befrilled, still made an attractive foil for Wallace as the hero.

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923