Clothed

Examples

• I bent over the body, and took in my hand the edge of his cloak, less altered in appearance than the human frame it clothed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And now gradually came the wonder that he stood up, completely clothed, another man, and not the Bargeman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• 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.
• On their arrival the Jew clothed the boy handsomely and instructed him in the first rudiments of his art. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I felt myself over from head to foot and from head to foot I was clothed, though when I fell unconscious at the little doorway I had been naked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• One sheet of white covered it, while bitter recollection told me that cold as the winter-clothed earth, were the hearts of the inhabitants. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One of these, the middle one, is clothed in a brilliant costume of silk of a light color, and it is she who, in the exhibition, makes the trunk, arms, and the middle head. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There were as many women as men, and each was clothed in the wondrously wrought harness of his station and his house. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. Plato. The Republic.
• And wondering at what their eyes had seen, they went down into the city and purchased garments and clothed themselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The law had his body; and there it lay, clothed in grave-clothes, an awful witness to its tender mercy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A fierce cry seemed to give the lie to her favourable report: the clothed hyena rose up, and stood tall on its hind-feet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There, on the threshold of her bedroom door, stood Miss Rachel, almost as white in the face as the white dressing-gown that clothed her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the meantime he must, in many cases, be maintained by his parents or relations, and, in almost all cases, must be clothed by them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After these came a huge Negress clothed like Solomon as to colors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This sight had an instantaneous effect on Raymond; his eyes beamed with tenderness, and remorse clothed his manners with earnestness and truth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If the conventional Cherub could ever grow up and be clothed, he might be photographed as a portrait of Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The gloom of the night was funereal; all nature seemed clothed in crape. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The colonies raised, clothed, and paid, during the last war, near twenty-five thousand men, and spent many millions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And the world is having its feet clothed far more extensively, better and at less cost than was ever possible by the hand system. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said, Jenny! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The people of fashion in Sicily are clothed in silks made in other countries, from the materials which their own produces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I told him I cared for no weather and was warmly clothed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They clothed themselves, it would seem, in skins, if they clothed themselves at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Pierce