Our outside and often thin and fanciful
clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury; our thicker garments, constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or cortex; but our shirts are our liber, or true bark, which cannot be removed without girdling and so destroying the man.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
it is beautiful!' And they advised him to wear these new and magnificent
clothes for the first time at the great procession which was soon to take place.
Yellow Fairy Book
AND she gave them their nice clean
clothes; and all the little animals and birds were so very much obliged to dear Mrs.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
All his retinue now strained their eyes, hoping to discover something on the looms, but they could see no more than the others; nevertheless, they all exclaimed, "Oh, how beautiful!" and advised his majesty to have some new
clothes made from this splendid material, for the approaching procession.
Andersens Fairy Tales
On this he gave his orders to the servants, who got the waggon out, harnessed the mules, and put them to, while the girl brought the
clothes down from the linen room and placed them on the waggon.
Odyssey
The consul tells me you suspected some one of taking your papers and your
clothes."
The New Magdalen
But her mother said, 'It is all of no use, you cannot go; you have no
clothes, and cannot dance, and you would only put us to shame': and off she went with her two daughters to the ball.
Fairy Tales
He took up all my
clothes in his pastern, one piece after another, and examined them diligently; he then stroked my body very gently, and looked round me several times; after which, he said, it was plain I must be a perfect YAHOO; but that I differed very much from the rest of my species in the softness, whiteness, and smoothness of my skin; my want of hair in several parts of my body; the shape and shortness of my claws behind and before; and my affectation of walking continually on my two hinder feet.
Gullivers Travels
Now, however, instead of the great white cloak, he had no
clothes on at all, save a short woollen shirt and a pair of leather shoes.
The White Company
The stout Cobbler got no further in his song, for of a sudden six horsemen burst upon them where they sat, and seized roughly upon the honest craftsman, hauling him to his feet, and nearly plucking the
clothes from him as they did so.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
But indeed, putting them in any
clothes at all seems absurd to my mind.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"But you were born without
clothes," she observed, "and you don't seem to me to need them."
The Road to Oz
The small amount of money that I had earned had been consumed by my stepfather and the remainder of the family, with the exception of a very few dollars, and so I had very little with which to buy
clothes and pay my travelling expenses.
Up From Slavery
But when you copied my
clothes, and when you copied my neckhankercher, and when you shook blood upon me after you had done the trick, you did wot I'll be paid for and paid heavy for.
Our Mutual Friend
"Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your
clothes all about the floor when you took them off.
Anne Of Green Gables