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| 41 | 96 | View more quotes about interesting">Interesting, as well, the parasol, in its opening and closing, in its lifting and lowering, its playful twirling, its coy movements, its modest interventions, revelations, and such, often functions, rather as a fan, as a flirtation device, hinting, teasing, promising, refusing, suggesting, denying, and so on. |
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| 41 | 93 | She carried a small yellow parasol, which was opened against the late-Âmorning sun. |
| 41 | 94 | Such parasols are occasionally carried by women of fashion, largely as an accessory. |
| 41 | 95 | From the utilitarian point of view they have less to do with sheltering the bit of a woman's face that might be unveiled as to keep much of the robes of concealment shaded, this lessening the build-up of heat within the raiment. |
| 41 | 96 | Interesting, as well, the parasol, in its opening and closing, in its lifting and lowering, its playful twirling, its coy movements, its modest interventions, revelations, and such, often functions, rather as a fan, as a flirtation device, hinting, teasing, promising, refusing, suggesting, denying, and so on. |
| 41 | 97 | Indeed, its use, as that of the fan, may convey boredom, invitation, mystery, impatience, annoyance, rage, and so on. |
| 41 | 98 | In the case of some free women, too, the parasol may have another attribute, one more sinister, an attribute of which I was not aware at the time. |
| 41 | 99 | I did note the switch that, like many free women, she carried at her belt. |