Gloved

Examples

• He stood with his back towards them, and his gloved hands clasped behind him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I looked at her again by and by, and saw her shrink into her corner, and put her gloved hand to her forehead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr. Vholes rose, gloved and buttoned up as usual, and seated himself again, just as he had seated himself beside Richard in the gig. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The defiant and pagan bonnet-grec had vanished: bare-headed, he came upon us, carrying a Christian hat in his gloved hand. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She looked down at the mother-of-pearl opera-glass in her smoothly gloved hands, and said, after a pause: What do you do while May is away? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He stood grasping his light valise in one neatly gloved hand, and gazing anxiously, perplexedly, almost appealingly, into Archer's face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Many a burst of applause from the pit that night started from the soft, comfortable patting of the black-gloved hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Riviere paused, turned his hat about in his still carefully gloved hands, looked into its lining and then back at Archer's face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Presently my man sat me down by a tank of hot water, drenched me well, gloved his hand with a coarse mitten, and began to polish me all over with it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Annabel