clothes

• On examination, I found that the body had been wrapped in sundry clothes, and, like the ark of Noah, pitched within and without: over the clothes was a coat of damma, then of chunam, and lastly it was gilt; the head of the mummy was fictitious, and formed of a cocoa-nut, the real skull being where, in the mummy, would have appeared to have been the breast of the body. —  Olla Podrida
• Sometimes people, coming home from abroad, bring with them a quantity of smuggled goods, and their clothes are all padded with laces, and other ill-gotten gear. —  The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
• Allowed that when it came to a humorous get-up my clothes were the original end-man's gag I noticed on the way back to the hotel that every fellow holding up a hitching-post was laughing, and I began to look up and down the street for the joke, not understanding at first that the reason why I couldn't see it was because I was it. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• He climbed and scrambled about until his clothes were almost torn off his back. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
• Although they met with no rain, their clothes were all dripping wet from the mist which they passed through. —  Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages

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