Cloaks

Examples

• But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• From amongst these cloaks, and behind that curtain, the Nun was said to issue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Here,--how is it men put on cloaks, George? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In a corner was a heap of coats and boat-cloaks, and a flag, all bundled up together. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• One use they put it to was the waterproofing of their cloaks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When used as linings of cloaks the black tuft from the tail is sewed to the skin at irregular distances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In Heaven's name, said he, to what purpose serve these abridged cloaks? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He would send fur shoes and fur cloaks after me in hot dry weather; because one could never be certain that it would not rain before my return. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Abstractions are not cloaks, nor wax figures, nor walls, nor vessels, and life doesn't flow like water. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He affected silver shining breastplates and long white cloaks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their bonnets with bright flowers, their velvet cloaks and silk dresses, seemed better suited for park or promenade than for a damp packet deck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I bore her from the near neighbourhood of the dead; wrapt in cloaks, I placed her beneath a tree. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I observed that they were both wrapped in cloaks, and appeared to conceal themselves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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