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Quotes About Parasol

Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.
~ L.M. Montgomery
and every lady's rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.
~ Mark Twain
and off she'd go—in search of a bargain: a lamp disguised as a nude figure, a rhinestone tiara, or a hand-painted parasol, for the "rainy season.
~ Bel Kaufman
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
~ Gail Carriger
There was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece, and it was real, all real, he assured himself, fingering the coin in his pocket, real to everyone except to him and to her; even to him it began to seem real; and then–but it was too exciting to stand and think any longer, and he pulled the parasol out of the earth with a jerk and was impatient to find the place where one had tea with other people, like other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
~ Herman J. Mankiewicz
At Livia's indecisive silence, Shaw abandoned the subject, and fastened his gaze on the tousled, heavily planted cottage garden ahead of them. Long banners of honeysuckle trailed over the garden fence, its fragrance making the air thick and sweet. Butterflies danced amid bright splotches of poppies and peonies. Beyond a plot of carrots, lettuce, and radishes, a rose-covered archway led to a tiny glasshouse that was shaded by a parasol-shaped sycamore.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. "No, no!" she said. "Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie had done to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed.
~ Diana Wynne Jones