Each year, on the anniversary of their first date, Fitt would buy stockings and chocolates, and repeat his journey to see the woman who would become his wife.
In the late 18th century, these two aristocratic Irish ladies, after several attempts (including one dressed as men), escaped on a boat for Britain, hunting, though they were only young, for "a life of sweet and delicious retirement" dedicated to "friendship, celibacy and the knitting of stockings", wrote Sir Walter Scott.
The Parisian ideal: little or no make-up, great hair, no stockings with heels, and a Chanel suit with no handbag.
We blasted through Zambia and Tanzania, to Peponi, in northern Tanzania, for Christmas, where we opened our stockings on the beach as the sun rose over the Indian Ocean and ate fresh fish cooked on an open fire for Christmas lunch.
The Going Green Christmas initiative didn't, for instance, affect the family stockings: William got Lego and Emma a go-kart.
"It shows we can be anybody," says a band member who goes by the name Garadzha, wearing a hot-pink ski mask and matching stockings.
With more or less delicacy, the press linked his dramatic personal style (he had a weakness for purple shirts, cherished his friendships with princesses and owned a framed pair of Queen Victoria's stockings) to his unacknowledged homosexuality.St John-Stevas was an unusual man, who would struggle to be selected as a Tory now (for one thing, he was a committed pro-European).
The expectation when a child that she would behave, and not try to pull down her itchy stockings or burst into tears.
Drink lots of water or fruit juice blood is thicker when you are dehydrated and more likely to clot; walk around the plane; move ankles and calves while seated; and wear compression stockings.
It is now highly likely to pass.In this section Ticking off the Tea Party Watery tea Judge v spies The perils of peanut-tossing A racist mob of two Empty stockings ReprintsUntil recently, conservative pressure groups appeared to hold more sway over House Republicans than Mr Boehner did.
IN 1999 ANDY CHAN, a middle-aged Hong Kong businessman, set up a company in Shenzhen, just over the border on the Chinese mainland, making pretty sets of bath soap to fill American Christmas stockings.
