Do we say cloth or clothes

cloth 4608 occurrences

and, she being away, ferreted among her things to see what she was doing, finding all very neat, except in one room where were a number of prints called La Mode, and débris of snipped cloth, and medley.

The cotton cloth schedule was increased in the face of the uncontradicted public testimony of the manufacturers themselves that it ought to remain unchanged.

His hands flew forward with the fall, and I saw that what I had taken for a red cloth was a monstrous wound, which had left a great gap in his neck, from which a dark blood-clot hung, like an epaulette upon his shoulder. 'My God!'

The Doctor bought a suit of broad cloth, which cost him 28 pieces of eight and is carried to his account in the sloop's ledger.

As long as they remained at Bicêtre, by burying themselves, as we may say, in their straw, they could defy the rigour of the weather; but at the departure of the chain, when they had no other covering than the frock and trousers made of packing cloth, they often sunk exhausted and frozen before they reached the first resting place.

shouted Bignall himself, in the exigency in which his vessel was placed; "Roll up the cloth; in with it allleave not a rag to the squall!

Westbury White Horse Porch House, Potterne St. John's, Devizes Bishop's Cannings Silbury Hill Devil's Den Garden Front, Marlborough College Cloth Hall, Newbury Wolverton The Inkpen Country Whitchurch Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke Basing Corhampton Map of Wessex

Its staple business in medieval times was the sale of wool or its manufacture into cloth.

He lifts one knee and drapes the cloth over it, standing upon one leg.

Cloth to be appreciated as cloth must be viewed over the bended knee of a tailor with one leg in the air.

Cloth to be appreciated as cloth must be viewed over the bended knee of a tailor with one leg in the air.

I have never seen any reason why cloth should not make up well.

There were people in the store, unloading shelves and piling cloth and taking stock.

It always seemed so still and tranquilweaving his tape about his neck and marking measures and holding cloth against his leg beside the sunlight of the window in the back part of the shop.

Her child had been killed that night by a bomb from a Zeppelin; she had its body in a cloth hugged to her breast as she talkedthank heaven, they keep these things out of the newspapersand she was calling down God's vengeance on the Emperor.

A thick cloth was thrown over my head, which was enveloped in such a manner that I could see absolutely nothing.

I immediately tore the cloth off my head and gazed about me.

He did not hurry, he rather seemed to be dawdling; yet almost before the observer awoke to the fact that supper was under preparation a tiny folding table with a turkey red cloth was set, the odour of coffeecheap coffee, yet surprisingly fragrantwas in the air, and the bird and potatoes were temptingly brown.

The glow of a good fire brightened the scanty shabby furniture a little, and the table, with its white cloth, homely flowered cups and saucers, bright metal teapot, and substantial fare in the way of ham and home-made bread, had a pleasant look enough in the eyes of any one coming in from a journey through the chill March atmosphere.

They lifted her into the cart, still insensible, and seated her there, wrapped in an old horse-cloth, with her head resting on Mrs. Whitelaw's shoulder; and so they drove slowly away.

At first glance he appeared to consist entirely of a very gaunt, cadaverous head and a sizable hump, but on being spread out he was found to possess a dark brown, unwholesome-looking body made of thick, cottony cloth.

She almost never won on the green cloth; sometimes Kovroff won, sometimes Kallash, sometimes Karozitch, but with the slight difference that the last won more seldom and less than the other two.

But when the fat pigeon at last appeared, the band put forth all its forces, all the wiles of the black art, and in a few hours made up for the generous losses of a month of honorable and irreproachable play on the green cloth.

In it stood a large table with a green cloth, on which lay a heap of bank notes and two little piles of gold, before which sat Sergei Antonovitch Kovroff, presiding over the bank with the composure of a true gentleman.

They will disport themselves on the green water, and we on the green cloth!

clothes 8768 occurrences

The folk of that contree usen alle longe clothes, with outen furroures.

And thei ben clothed with precious clothes of Tartarye; and of clothes of gold.

And thei ben clothed with precious clothes of Tartarye; and of clothes of gold.

And here clothes ben slytt at the syde; and thei ben festned with laces of silk.

And the wommen maken alle thinges and alle maner mysteres and craftes; as of clothes, botes and other thinges; and thei dryven cartes, plowes and waynes and chariottes; and thei maken houses and alle maner of mysteres, out taken bowes and arwes and armures, that men maken.

And thanne alle the cytees and gode townes senden hym ryche presentes; so that at that iourneye, he schalle have more than 60 chariottes charged with gold and sylver, with outen jewelles of gold and precyouse stones, that lordes zeven hym, that ben withouten estymacioun: and with outen hors and clothes of gold and of Camakaas and Tartarynes, that ben with outen nombre.

But Padre Irene, trustee and executor, rejected both proposals and ordered that the Capitan be dressed in one of his old suits of clothes, remarking with holy unction that God paid no attention to clothing.

She had decked herself out in her finest clothes, and even pretended to be quite gay, talking a great deal, although in a rather incoherent way.

Without reflecting, without hesitation, he ran toward the house, and thanks to his stylish clothes and determined mien, easily secured admittance.

"Why have you left the bank?" "The wine is running across the table and on to your clothes.

They had worn homespun clothes, but they had also been able to lead care-free and independent lives.

He was just as little now as when he went away, and wore the same clothes; yet he was completely changed.

HOW MEN CARICATURE THEMSELVES WITH THEIR CLOTHES.

Although in the dress of man there are fewer possibilities of caricature than in that of woman, yet, "the masterpieces of creation" frequently exaggerate in a laughableand sometimes a pitiableway, certain physical characteristics by an injudicious choice of clothes.

To treat of this important subject adequately and convincingly, one would require the masterly discernment of a skillful and accomplished tailor, the experienced knowledge of a well-dressed man, and the alertly critical perception of a loving woman who, even in the matter of clothes, wishes the dearest of men to her, to do full justice to himself and her ideal of him on all occasions.

[Illustration: NO. 78] Apropos of the minor details of man's garments, the button as a feature of clothes has never been fully done justice to.

If his body is proportioned so he really has neither length of torso nor of limb he must pay more attention to the cut of his clothes and attain length in whatever artistic way he can.

91 and 92] Of course, character counts far more than clothes, we will all agree to that, but at first glance it is a man's clothes that impress people.

91 and 92] Of course, character counts far more than clothes, we will all agree to that, but at first glance it is a man's clothes that impress people.

Clothes affect our behavior somewhat.

His good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends."

Clothes affect our own poise, ease, and attitude toward others and the expression of others toward us, but, after all, we rely upon the man or woman instead of upon the impression we receive from the clothes.

Clothes affect our own poise, ease, and attitude toward others and the expression of others toward us, but, after all, we rely upon the man or woman instead of upon the impression we receive from the clothes.

No matter what the cut of the cloth, no matter what cachet of a fashionable tailor a suit may have, or what its richness of material, the attitude "à la decadence" of No. 93 would make the best clothes in Christendom look shabby and unattractive.

I don't believe one word of all he has said or hinted or drawn or sung about that thing, and yet, I would give everything I possess, and all Bee's good clothes, and all Mrs. Jimmie's jewels, if I could hear and see the pansymphonicon just once!

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