Wore

Examples

• I had on wool stockings but Passini wore puttees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But her mother held her back, saying, with a look she seldom wore. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Though he wore the metal of Zodanga, my Jeddak, such a man was never seen before in this or any other country upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I wore them to my first ball. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You see, it had been sunk there by the man as wore it, and I got it up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They wore a good deal of hair, not very neatly turned up behind, and were rather untidy about the shoes and stockings. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He wore a high silk hat which was a little old, but had been carefully brushed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He wore a tunic with a silver border, and gartered hose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He wore no hat, his hair was black and shaggy and his handclasp was strong and friendly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Emma's spirits were mounted quite up to happiness; every thing wore a different air; James and his horses seemed not half so sluggish as before. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He brought a native servant with him, who was his valet and pipe-bearer and who wore the Sedley crest in silver on his turban. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I would not sell you my horses, no, not for the two largest diamonds that your Ladyship wore at the ball. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some wore their steel helmets but most of them carried them slung from their packs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He wore a gray-green uniform and a helmet like the Germans. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You were on the moor, you wore a mask, you knocked down one of my men with your own hand--you! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She often wore white herself, and she always dressed her little daughter in white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He wore his collar and orders, his blue ribbon and garter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The time wore on, and he began to grow impatient. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was due to the uniform he wore, to demand this explanation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I was struck, on entering the drawing-room, by the curious contrast, rather in material than in colour, of the dresses which they now wore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I warn't locked up as often now as formerly, but I wore out my good share of key-metal still. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You should have seen him smile, reader; and you should have marked the difference between his countenance now, and that he wore half an hour ago. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I did, but we quarrelled so much it wore itself out. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Keimer wore his beard at full length, because somewhere in the Mosaic law it is said, _Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Edited by Cecilia