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  • The diisgusting mess left by Coulson will prove difficult to dislodge any time soon, but Cameron, Clegg and Cable are only too happy to follow meekly behind their clotheless emperor.

    Martin Rowson on Rupert Murdoch's visit to London 2011

  • But eventually I accommodated to my condition, and to the clotheless custom of the centaurs.

    Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

  • With all the aid which came to the Negro Baptists of North Carolina, with ignorance, poverty and discouragement staring them in the face, and with conditions as the results of war, and a people set free with no homes, clotheless and often foodless, their struggles were often bitter and disappointing.

    A History of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina: 1908

  • Men, women, children, all ludicrously clotheless, swarmed aimlessly like bees in an overturned hive.

    World's War Events, Vol. I 1902

  • Mrs. Dalziel had joined two committees got up by stranded Americans at the Savoy: one to supply money for moneyless millionaires, and the other to find clothes for clotheless millionairesses.

    Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley 1901

  • States -- while stagnation of business and bankruptcy there, throws every few years, hungry and cold, the laboring classes out of employment, fireless, foodless, clotheless -- while long processions of poverty and sorrow-stricken women, with their famishing infants clinging to their milkless breasts, roam the streets of the Atlantic cities, imploring their masters in vain for bread* -- the

    Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

  • Years ago, the entire patch was for the clotheless but a complaint from a local barrister in the early 90s, who didn't wish to have to see his brethren in their birthday suits when using the Heath, led to the partitioning.

    Londonist 2008

  • "hoot n 'anny", he then continued the bombardment into this final stage, absolutely dropping any and all civility when dissecting Sarah Palin for her daring to make him look like the clotheless emperor to and from nowhere that he is.

    Chicagoray's Views and News 2008

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