КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «PIXIE HOOD»
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Elizabeth Bowen: The Later Fiction
Maud is a particularly obnoxious, even diabolical version of Bowen's horrible little
girls, who bullies her schoolfellows, sucks raw eggs, and practises black magic
and voodoo; characteristically, she has a pixie hood in the pocket of her ...
So that I wouldnotfeel left out, Aunt Dora boughtme a brown cotton pixie hood
withared gingham lining. I hated boththe colour and the shapebut they made me
wear it to school anyway. 'Itwill keep your ears warm,'they explained. So
therewas ...
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Thirty-five Acres, A Spade And A Fork
Whenever she saw me feeding him, she insisted on giving him her two most
treasured possessions—a fancy handbag, which I had to loop over his arm, and
a red pixie hood, which I placed under his head. I was happy; as they grew, they
...
He could faintly descry the white oval of her face where it peeped out from her
woollen pixie-hood. He saw — or thought he could see — her eyes, very wide
and troubled. "It wouldn't have mattered, as things turned out," he said finally.
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Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices
She gave me the greatest happiness of our stay in Brussels by sewing me a "
pixie- hood," a scarf sewn up into a hood at the top and with long ends to tie
under the chin. It was the first time I had seen her sew. More important than these
...
The Gardens were nearly deserted: in the sun colonnade there was only a
woman in a pixie hood hurrying a small child home. Hunched and shivery, I sat
on a bench a little above the stream and rockery. The seat felt icily damp, even
through ...
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Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice
its significance. After the visit to Torcello, John had imagined Christine running
alongside the canal. Now he sees a scene that seems to mirror his fantasy of the
lost daughter: a 'child' in a pixie hood, fleeing across a canal. In reality, this is an ...
Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff,
1999
The handbag woman chose a small girl in a pixie hood and grubby skirt with
stains on it. The woman remarked to another, 'On the way home I'll stop off at the
chemist. Get something for her hair. You know – lice.' Then she left the hall and
the ...
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The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 3 No. 4)
The day before, he had seen a small female figure in a pixie hood fleeing across
a canal. The final evening, when all seems so safe, he sees the tiny figure again;
again it is desperately trying to escape. John assumes that he is seeing a ...
But that great destroyer, the bulldozer, returned to haunt me once again. One
rainy day in late January 1949, 1 went around to see my old man. Dad had given
me a paper bag of new potatoes and a sprig of mint for Bert's tea. I had a pixie
hood ...
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «PIXIE HOOD»
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Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style review – pluck, hope …
“This morning, I put a pair of flannel pants on, a big heavy sweater, and a thick woollen pixie hood,” wrote housewife Nella Last in her diary in ... «The Guardian, Мар 15»
Day in the Life: Balloon modeller and face painter Gemma Wright
Dress: I wear a super bright rainbow dress with stars on with a pixie hood and bright shoes to match. I always war a balloon headband ... «ChesterChronicle.co.uk, Авг 14»
U-boat strike SS Gairsoppa rescue children found
I remember I put my pixie hood around his feet because he was so cold - and I never got it back." Betty and Denis Betty Broughton and Denis ... «BBC News, Апр 14»
Man jailed for 11 years after attack with hammer and knife
McLaren and a woman called Pixie Hood were already there. Mr Jenkins said a row broke out and at one stage Mr Horscroft had his hands ... «cambrian-news.co.uk, Дек 13»
Sarah Baring
But in the winter he wore a blue pixie hood on his beard. A pixie hood's the thing you put on babies' heads. ” Sarah Norton spent three years at ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Фев 13»
Divine Lived For Christmas!
... me up at quarter to 4 with a cup of tea like a fabulous excited child already in his winter coat with pixie hood, making me hurry to get ready. «Village Voice, Дек 11»
Trance jackets for Ahana Deol!
... lace bow under the bust, a "trance" jacket with a marijuana leaf on the chest and a pixie hood; a lot of shifts, corduroy waistcoats and the like. «Times of India, Июн 09»