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Sentences starting with clothes

Clothes became Nick's slim figure remarkably. [9]
Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get. [5]
Clothes like a fashion-plate--got any fashion-plates in Chaudiere? [11]
Clothes is well enough in school, and in towns, and at balls, too, but there ain't no sense in them when there ain't no civilization nor other kinds of bothers and fussiness around. [5]
Clothes are never clean. [5]
Clothes were scattered about, there were books on every side: "Wherever a book could be laid was an open book turned down on its face to keep its place. [5]

Sentences ending with clothes

The yellow chips were still on his clothes. [9]
And the door was scarce closed and locked again, before they began stripping off their clothes. [9]
But his religion was a central habit, followed as mechanically as his appetite or the folding of his master's clothes. [11]
They are the very same chaps, like as not, the visitors have seen in plays at the city theatres; but of course they don't know 'em in plain clothes. [6]
It had been unwisely told her by Mackenzie that they were Marion's clothes. [11]
The Italian officers' uniforms are very much the most beautiful I have ever seen; and, as a general thing, the men in them were as handsome as the clothes. [5]
There were some tolerably expensive toilets there, and in several cases the ladies who wore them had the look of being unfamiliar with that kind of clothes. [5]
I am going to the theatre; that will explain these clothes. [5]
He hasn't any to strip--they are shams, stolen clothes. [5]
But he's something to strike the eye and hold it, for all his Quaker clothes. [9]

Short sentences using clothes

Their clothes were very interesting. [5]
Want the clothes, too? [11]
No--not in his own clothes. [5]
I--I haven't any clothes. [9]
You never had any clothes. [9]
His clothes were against him. [5]
But his clothes! [9]
Spiled your clothes! [5]
And the clothes! [10]

Sentences containing clothes two or more times

The clothes they wore had been Sunday clothes for at least that length of time. [4]
Charley looked at them interestedly, then glanced at the clothes he had on, the suit that had belonged to him last year--grave- clothes. [11]
His clothes were the clothes of the Western man; and yet there was a manner of wearing them, there were touches which were evidence to the watchful observer that he was of other spheres. [11]
His "corrobboree" of the Australian wilds reappears in De Maurier's Belgravian ballrooms, with clothes and the smirk of civilization added; Botticelli's "Spring" is the "corrobboree" further idealized, but with fewer clothes and more smirk. [5]
At birth I only weighed 4 1/2 pounds with my clothes on--and the clothes were the chief feature of the weight, too, I am obliged to confess. [5]
He took a level tumblerful of whisky every morning before he put his clothes on--"to sweeten his bilgewater," he said.--He took another after he got the most of his clothes on, "to settle his mind and give him his bearings. [5]
And it's usual for the prisoner's mother to change clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes. [5]
Then my father died, leaving his family in exceedingly straitened circumstances; wherefore my book-education came to a standstill forever, and I became a printer's apprentice, on board and clothes, and when the clothes failed I got a hymn-book in place of them. [5]
An' her own clothes she burned, an' put on the clothes I brought her wid me own hand. [11]
So I called a halt and said: "Sire, as between clothes and countenance, you are all right, there is no discrepancy; but as between your clothes and your bearing, you are all wrong, there is a most noticeable discrepancy. [5]

More example sentences with the word clothes in them

The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on--en what did I git for it? [5]
The saying is, you mustn't judge a man by his clothes, and I'm believing it now. [5]
Tell me, have you ever sold your clothes to the Mart, or whatever the miserable coffin-shop is called? [11]
The same clothes, yes, but what's in them? [5]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion--Eastern fashion, city fashion--that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront. [5]
Pierre watched him with a furtive humour for a time, then he said languidly: "Never mind your clothes, give yourself. [11]
If you do, will you give me enough to live on--enough to buy a suit of clothes a year, to pay for food and a room? [11]
If the Parson will permit me, I should say that the chief clothes question abroad just now is, how to get any; and it is the same with the dinners. [4]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
His face was white and pinched, his clothes were wet. [9]
The rich clothes which the princess had given her became her as if she had never worn any others; she could obey discreetly, disappear at the right moment, and, when she was invited, chatter delightfully. [10]
Not her clothes, which she wore as if she had been used to them all her life. [9]
To be sure when you came home from the procession yesterday you only asked me how my foot was and whether my clothes were whole and then not another mortal word did you utter. [10]
I always do, when I go in the water with my clothes on. [5]
What clean clothes, what good faces, what tranquil contentment, what prosperity, what genuine freedom, what superb government. [5]
His clothes are wet, he is unshaven, he is gaunt and ill, and his eyed gleans. [9]
If that man weren't an infant in swaddling clothes, his only reply to our petition would have been, "It has been in print. [5]
Three of them were washing clothes in the river under the window when I arrived, and they continued at it as long as there was light to work by. [5]
His ragged clothes were those of an outcast. [13]
Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist. [9]
Thus his clothes were much shredded by bullets and his person grievously lacerated. [5]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [2]
Inquiring as we went, we forded a wide creek in which soldiers were washing their clothes, the name of which we did not then know, but which must have been the Antietam. [6]
We stripped and went to bed, and sent our clothes down to be baked. [5]
He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on. [9]
They are, indeed, weaving a charmed web, for these are the looms from which comes the knowledge that clothes the nakedness of the intellect. [3]
In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
I know the ways of real gentlemen and real ladies, and I know those fellows in store clothes that look a little too fine,--outside. [6]
The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch. [10]
He wrung the water out of his clothes, and ran softly up the shore. [11]
The mother was washing clothes in a tub in one corner; in another corner was a half-finished garment from a slop-shop. [4]
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind. [5]
Well, his idea was, a new outfit of clothes for you both--" "Oh, it is wastefulness! [5]
And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle. [5]
In fact, he was in a sense too lavish, for he used at one time to bring her home presents of silks and clothes and toilet things and stockings and hats, which were not in accord with her taste, and only vexed her. [11]
My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired. [5]
Cousin Eleanor Hanbury was a person, or personage, who took a deep and abiding interest in her fellow-beings, and the old clothes of the Hanbury family went unerringly to the needy whose figures most resembled those of the original owners. [9]
One of them was a lad of nineteen or twenty, and he was a good deal of a ruin, as to clothes, and morals, and general aspect. [5]
Going to the wardrobe and opening a drawer at the bottom she searched among her clothes until she discovered the piece of tissue paper in which she had wrapped the rose rescued from the cluster he had given her. [9]
But since the war come on, I tell you, I ain't kicking, I can go to a movie or the theatre once in a while, and buy nice clothes, and I don't get so tired as I used to. [9]
Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
She saw a very real, very human individual, clad in a dark nondescript suit of clothes which had been bought ready-made, and plainly without the bestowal of much thought, on Fifth Street. [9]
It warn't so very hot, because it was close on to evening, and we hadn't any clothes on, anyway. [5]
I went slowly upstairs, threw off my clothes mechanically, and tumbled into bed. [9]
She has insisted upon putting the individual in a straitjacket, she has never recognized that growth is the secret of life, that the clothes of one man are binding on another. [9]
He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life--and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them. [5]
A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up. [2]
The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and to rest after their hard marches. [2]
So Helen made up her bundle of clothes to be sent after her, took a book or two with her to help her pass the time, and departed for the Dudley mansion. [6]
She 173 looked under the chair over which hung her clothes, even behind the dresses and the Indian deerskin cape hanging on the door. [11]
This apartment, with two mighty feather-beds, was hung about with all manner of stuffy family clothes, and had in one end a vast cavern for a fire. [4]
This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. [9]
Especially is this true in the country, where people have not obtained the mastery of their clothes that those who live in the city have. [4]
They were so troubled about my enchanted clothes that they were mightily relieved, at last, when old Merlin swept the difficulty away for them with a common-sense hint. [5]
The mind not trained for that work is no more competent to do it than are lawyers and farmers competent to make successful clothes without learning the tailor's trade. [5]
At least the town thought they had that look, but the notion could have arisen from the town's knowledge of the fact that these ladies had never inhabited such clothes before. [5]
They have a tough, dry grass, which, matted together, furnishes them with clothes sufficiently warm for their cold-blooded constitutions, and more than sufficiently ugly. [6]
I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
To quench the tormenting fire, frying him in his clothes, he leaped into the deep river, where, ere they could recover him, he was nearly drowned. [4]
Almost feverishly she took off the clothes she wore and hastily threw them from her. [11]
And now she took courage to look more closely at the man--and it was--yes, even in the peasant's clothes he wore he could not deceive her quick eyes--it was Andreas! [10]
One would have to travel far before he would find another town of twelve thousand inhabitants that could represent itself so respectably, in the matter of clothes, on a freight-pier, without premeditation or effort. [5]
When you get to town, Mr. Carvel, don't fail to go to Davenport, who makes clothes for most of us at Almack's, and let him remodel you. [9]
If we went to the bottom of this subject, I think we should find that the putting upon actors clothes to which they are unaccustomed makes them act and talk artificially, and often in a manner intolerable. [4]
It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary. [2]
His plan was to slip down to his uncle's private sitting room below, pass into the bedroom, steal the safe key from the old gentleman's clothes, and then go back and rob the safe. [5]
Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin' clothes. [9]
I am proud to say that I can wear a white suit of clothes without a blemish for three days. [5]
Men live up to or live down to their clothes, which have a great moral influence on manner, and even on conduct. [4]
I went straight to my tailor, put on the clothes and bade him look at them. [11]
And my compliments to Mr. MacMuir, and ask him for a suit of clothes. [9]
I don't take to men often, and to convicts precious seldom; but there was a look in this man's face which the prison clothes couldn't demoralise--a damned pathetic look, which seemed to say, 'Not guilty. [11]
The water turned to ice on their clothes, and made them many times like coats of iron. [3]
He was said to have more clothes than any man in Boston. [9]
My trunk used to get loose in the stateroom and rip and tear around the place as if it had life in it, and I always had to take my clothes off in bed because I could not stand up and do it. [5]
It was strange to Denzil that the lumber-king, short, thin, careless in his clothes but singularly clean in his person, should have a son so little like himself, and also so little like his mother. [11]
He was pleased to characterize the Hall as insupportable, and vowed that his clothes would be out of fashion before they reached Rousby Hall, their next stopping-place. [9]
Do people hesitate to change houses any more than they do to change their clothes? [4]
Not being accustomed to carrying about soiled clothes, he declined this proposal, and consulted a chambermaid. [4]
And one day, to cap the matter, two woodsmen arrived at Harrodstown with clothes frayed and bodies lean from a long journey. [9]
He is hungry to be rich, for he is human; but his preference has been for riches in cattle, not in fine clothes and fine houses and gold and diamonds. [5]
He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear. [5]
If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud--never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. [5]
While they were throwing off their clothes, the Ninety-Nine came down, and stood off. [11]
I shall get through; but I witnessed a terrible sight to-day at the tailor's, who mends my clothes. [10]
It was as though the quiet that followed the removal of his clothes and the touch of Mrs. Tynan's hand on his head had called Crozier back from unconsciousness. [11]
In a moment those handy men had his clothes off, and had tucked him into his bed in the chamber where I had washed my hands. [5]
In consequence of this "a walk in the fresh air" always suggested to his mind, damp clothes, wet feet, ruined shoes, a cold in the head, and an attack of indigestion--the result of his sister's greasy cooking. [10]
I do not think I could much longer have borne the chilling air--a dampness, too, had risen from the floor, which had been washed that morning--for my clothes were very light in texture and much worn. [11]
So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes. [5]
I even chose the very word I would use: "You've forgotten the clean clothes, Jane. [5]
He also remembered the time when, after a rich capture on the highway which had filled his purse, he had ridden to Nuremberg in magnificent new clothes at the carnival season in order, by his brothers' counsel, to win a wealthy bride. [10]
He was near the river, and in the country; it was a region of fine rural seats--not the sort of district to welcome clothes like his. [5]

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