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1  But I'm dressed something special today.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  It's not because you paid for my dresses.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  He is in evening dress, with a light overcoat.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  Mrs. Higgins returns, dressed for the wedding.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet around the ankles.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
6  I mean not to be slovenly about her dress or untidy in leaving things about.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
7  At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  He is brilliantly dressed in a new fashionable frock-coat, with white waistcoat and grey trousers.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
9  This is my return for offering to take you out of the gutter and dress you beautifully and make a lady of you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
10  Higgins, in evening dress, with overcoat and hat, comes in, carrying a smoking jacket which he has picked up downstairs.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
11  Eliza opens the door and is seen on the lighted landing in opera cloak, brilliant evening dress, and diamonds, with fan, flowers, and all accessories.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
12  Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite flustered.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
13  Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
14  He appears in the morning light as a robust, vital, appetizing sort of man of forty or thereabouts, dressed in a professional-looking black frock-coat with a white linen collar and black silk tie.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
15  In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III