Rags

Examples

• Principally rags and rubbish, my dear friend! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cat leaped down and ripped at a bundle of rags with her tigerish claws, with a sound that it set my teeth on edge to hear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is mainly wood pulp that has enabled books and newspapers to be made so cheaply, for they are now furnished at a less price than the cost of the paper made in the old way from rags. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I should think they had,' exclaimed Mr. Weller, surveying his companion's rags with undisguised wonder. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The rags from which the paper is made undergo a variety of processes before they are properly reduced into a state of pulp. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A clever counsel would tear it all to rags, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Investigation brought out the fact that wood contained the substance which made rags valuable for paper making. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Of course, there are many rich men in the empire, but their money is buried, and they dress in rags and counterfeit poverty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat, and showed his body to be withered and worn. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The poverty which reduces an Irish girl to rags is impotent to rob the English girl of the neat wardrobe she knows necessary to her self-respect. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was the scarcity of rags, especially of linen rags, that forced inventors to find other paper-producing materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Our houses would become caverns, and we should go in rags because we cared for nobody. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And for every beggar in America, Italy can show a hundred--and rags and vermin to match. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It not infrequently takes place among heaps of rags, wool and cotton when sodden with oil; hay and straw when damp or moistened with water; and coal in the bunkers of vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Charley shook her head as she methodically drew his rags about him and made him as warm as she could. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the Fourdrinier process rags are ground to a pulp by a revolving beater (Fig. 125) working in a tank of water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I can't wear my solemnity too often, else it will go to rags. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They were sad rags, to tell the truth; and Oliver had never had a new suit before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Their doors are always open, and there is always a welcome for any worthy man who comes, whether he comes in rags or clad in purple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Carrying out which intention, he presented himself before her at the expiration of a month, in rags, without shoes, and much more tired than ever. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It's amazing what places they used to put the guineas in, wrapped up in rags. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill at which a cart was unloading a quantity of sacks of old rags. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Originally made from the fibres of the papyrus plant, and later from rags beaten into a pulp, paper for the printing of books and newspapers is now made almost entirely of wood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• By the use of machines under this system, a vast amount of material, cast-off rags, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The magnet wire was wound with rags for insulation, and pieces of spring brass were used for keys. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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