Wardrobe

Examples

• There was a bed and a big wardrobe with a mirror. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• My young lady refuses to have her wardrobe examined. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He took Tom's trunk, which contained a very neat and abundant wardrobe, to the forecastle, where it was soon surrounded by various hands of the boat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If anyone were forced to conceal himself in this room he must do it there, since the bed is too low and the wardrobe too shallow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Shaw and her maid found plenty of occupation in restoring Margaret's wardrobe to a state of elegant variety. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• On the pretext of arranging my rooms and waiting on me and taking care of my wardrobe (all of which she did busily), she was never absent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Thay the word, and I'll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• 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.
• There in the wardrobe hung those wonderful robes--pink and blue and many-tinted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now I'm ready, said Amy, shutting the wardrobe and taking a piece of paper out of her pocket. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then she hadn't so much as a darned stocking or a cleaned pair of gloves in all her wardrobe. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They informed me that Miss Rachel flatly refused to have her wardrobe examined. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We will go back for a moment, if you please, to your daughter's refusal to let her wardrobe be examined. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I'll furnish my own wardrobe out of that money, and you shall give me nothing but-- Well, but what? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As to the effect of modern inventions on wearing apparel, it is not apparent that they were necessary to supply the wardrobes of the rich. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But Rawdon flung open boxes and wardrobes, throwing the multifarious trumpery of their contents here and there, and at last he found the desk. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I have decided to see the servants, and to search their thoughts and actions, Mr. Betteredge, instead of searching their wardrobes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But I am equally clear that the servants' wardrobes ought to be searched. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But we followed into a large room filled with tall wooden presses like wardrobes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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