| 单词 | cast-off |
| 例句 | His hand showed red in the porch’s cast-off light. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s how the members from the congregations would pay us, with food and a place to stay and their cast-off clothes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Other days, in the hours after lessons, Werner tows his little sister through the mine complex in a wagon he has assembled from cast-off parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Matthias was horrified to discover that it was full of cast-off snake skins. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Animals are somewhere; he can smell them, but the little house looks empty, if not cast-off completely. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A world of wildflowers blooming up through the shapes of rusty cast-off parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I talked to my parents and they arranged for me to return to my cast-off school back in Florida and live with a family who had an extra room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I also managed to find shoes and a coat for Helena and a cast-off rug for our feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z ‘He messed up the scent back there, pinching that cast-off mail-shirt that he found, and paddling all round the place before I could get there.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Seeing these three waifs in their cast-off state broke her heart a little. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The one that knocked his tooth out has got himself a purple, steel-buttoned outfit that looks like a cast-off janitor uniform. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, on the border itself, was a tangle of cast-off machinery and tanks that seeped a black liquid onto the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a garment at first, a cast-off cloak made of small white feathers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The boys spent their free time huddled in the Tuve attic, surrounded by cast-off batteries, glass tubes, and coils of wire. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Later that night he is alone in his room, listening to side 3 of the White Album on his parents’ cast-off RCA turntable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Under certain circumstances, the membrane surrounding blepharisma disintegrates and comes independently loose, like a cast-off shell, leaving the creature a transient albino. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They, too, were generous, providing her with cast-off furniture, clothing, and, most important, food. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But from these cast-off men, both so common and anonymous, will spring the branches of two families engaged in the relentless denuding of land. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z And despite concerns that, after eight years' scavenging, they may be running out of cast-off videos to rediscover, he won't countenance opening up the show to digital footage. Found Footage festival: 'Stupid videos might be the international language' 2012-06-18T17:50:49Z The second focuses on Saint Augustine’s cast-off mistress, now grown deeply learned in the occult and desperate to bring her dead son back to life. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Tolerant, patient and known for her “discretion and restraint,” Rennie is privy to confidences along with cast-off treasures. Book review: ‘Honeydew,’ short stories by Edith Pearlman 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Her parents find her grotesque, “like a rag doll sewn together from cast-off parts.” Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z He told of days when his taxi driver parents were both working, when he and Lucette, one of his four sisters, would climb up to the attic to play with the family’s cast-off clothes. The Magician of the Galliera 2013-05-30T06:37:03Z We know more about the prehistoric dead than some of the more recent casualties whose only markers are cast-off clothing and empty water bottles. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z The sculpture collective known as Atis Rezistans continued to work in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood called Grand Rue, where they made figures from cast-off automobile parts. Big Bucks and Been-There Fare 2010-12-17T14:43:31Z Friends give him bags of pantyhose and cast-off size 8 pumps. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z It doesn't help that the Mithraic soldiers' uniforms are distractingly kitschy; imagine cast-off uniforms from some 1980s XFL team called Holy Rollers. Ridley Scott's new series "Raised by Wolves" imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Originating in the scruffy old Jewish quarter downtown, these bars occupy abandoned buildings and their courtyards, hosting hipsters quaffing German and Czech beers while reclining on cast-off furniture amid haphazard flea market finds. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z Salvaging tree roots and other remnants of his country’s rampant deforestation, he transforms the cast-off hunks—often hundreds of years old—into furnishings and works of art. Hugo França Gives New Life to Salvaged Trees 2013-12-04T05:00:00Z Its body is woven from hundreds of cast-off bicycle wheel inner tubes; small, sleek toy cars are packed within its belly. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z At Revel, lampshades cast-off from a 60's era chandelier -- scrapped from another project -- were reworked and rewired by Jim Graham. Seattle architects have the blueprint for hot new restaurants 2011-06-15T02:01:04Z An untitled wall relief by Chiffon Thomas is a body-cast of his head and shoulders, held aloft by implied “wings” made from cast-off architectural posts. Art made during — and despite — the pandemic informs the Hammer's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The weight Andrusha had lost in prison showed starkly in the cast-off jacket that hung from her shoulders. Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star’s outer layer. NASA Webb telescope captures star on cusp of death 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Occasionally, if I’m feeling particularly beneficent to future pirate me, I’ll add some peeled slices of whole horseradish root to a cast-off bottle of vodka and bury it in the back of the pantry. Recommendation: When your partner leaves town, act like a pirate 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z He made his fortune through buying up and turning around cast-off parts of other businesses. Manchester United: Who might buy the club? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Through buying up and turning around cast-off parts of other businesses, Sir Jim has built up a huge fortune - although estimates of his wealth vary. Jim Ratcliffe: Who is the man bidding for Man Utd? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It is now a desolate ruin of burned-out houses scattered with cast-off military gear. Ukrainian villagers count dead after weeks confined in school basement 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Vanessa, who once believed she could only pursue fashion design downtown, discovers that her ultimate inspiration is the graffiti rags and cast-off fabric she finds in Washington Heights’ streets and alleys. Opinion | American cities needed a boost after a brutal year. Enter ‘In the Heights.’ 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z One such work is his 1969 “Containment Series,” a collection of rectangular pieces made of tin cans, rusted nails and other cast-off materials exploring the concept of constraint. John Outterbridge, a Central L.A. assemblage artist and educator, dies at 87 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Ser Serpas typically gathers up discarded junk — broken toys, household litter and cast-off furniture — from a show’s neighborhood, which she then lays out in a grid for examination. Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Other pieces in the collection use cast-off scraps or surplus fabric from Missoni factories and suppliers. Hot dog! M Missoni stages a fashion show in Pink's parking lot 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He was amazed that there was often a symmetry to the work despite its construction from cast-off cloth. Hanging trees and hollering ghosts: the unsettling art of the American deep south 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Trump’s demands for obsequious devotion, as well as his failure to provide anything similar in exchange, seems to have pushed many of his cast-off associates to despair — and disloyalty. All the president’s disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Ciurlo and her colleagues think the mysterious hybrids are merged binary stars shrouded in cast-off star stuff. Mysterious, Dusty Objects Are Swarming the Milky Way’s Core 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z A $2,000 solar panel he saved up to buy powers several LED lights and batteries scattered around the roughly 160-square-foot living space.The floor is covered by cast-off casino carpet. With ingenuity, man makes Boulder City mine shaft his castle 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It didn’t occur to the team that they might be worth more than $10 a day, or that they should have their own kits, not cast-off training wear from the men’s team. The last hurrah? USA have blazed the trail but Europe is closing in 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z An amalgamation of tin cans, rusted nails and other cast-off materials make up Outterbridge’s 1969 “Containment Series,” a collection of rectangular pieces exploring the concept of constraint. The Broad’s ‘Soul of a Nation’: Art from the rubble of Watts 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Through buying up and turning around cast-off parts of other businesses, the Mancunian has made a £21bn fortune. Jim Ratcliffe: Turning cast-offs into gold 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Every day, small numbers of people gather in the centre to sell things that will generate a bit of cash: cast-off clothes, children's schoolbooks, cakes they've made, dried fish, reindeer-horn carvings. Could Greenland become China's Arctic base? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z One of the boys made a fire from cast-off bits of driftwood and I pulled on a sweatshirt. My fundamentalist childhood: less like a temple, more like a cage 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In late August, one of the Philippines’ largest warships, a cast-off cutter from the United States Coast Guard, ran aground on Half Moon Shoal, an unoccupied maritime feature not far from Mischief Reef. China’s Sea Control Is a Done Deal, ‘Short of War With the U.S.’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z She collects cast-off dolls—dolls with no arms, dolls with their stuffing coming out—and nurses them in her doll hospital. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z He was a Dodgers legend who became a Dodgers cast-off who joined a franchise that reflected the fun and easygoing manner of its Disney owners. Mike Scioscia will leave the Angels but his toughness will remain with the organization 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z It was asked as the Golden Knights — an expansion team made up of cast-off players from across the league — won 51 games in their inaugural regular season. Las Vegas, shaken by tragedy, finds an unlikely rallying point: Its first-year NHL team 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z That seven-page letter set Africa in the cross-hairs of the new administration’s ‘America First’ trade ideology, pitting the world’s largest economy against tiny Rwanda over an unlikely U.S. export: cast-off clothes. Trump versus Rwanda in trade battle over used clothes 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The garden includes paintings by Mr. Scalza and others, as well as seating areas and cast-off plants he adopted from the flower district. The Garden Thief 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Through buying up and turning around the cast-off parts of big business, the Mancunian has made his £21bn fortune. Jim Ratcliffe: Turning cast-offs into gold 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Workers manage to sell off baubles and trinkets scavenged from the cast-off clothes but must often share the proceeds with mill owners. Panipat, the global centre for recycling textiles, is fading 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Hiking on a trail scattered with traces left by people making their long journeys: cast-off clothing and crushed plastic water bottles, a stuffed dog, everything that isn’t essential and can’t be carried. The Other Side of the Wall: A New Generation of Latino Art 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Occasionally, he snapped a selfie: a boy in a cast-off woman’s windbreaker, wandering through a deserted suburban landscape as the sky darkens. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Lockwood scrounges the internet looking for cast-off battery packs from manufacturers who started and abandoned electric car projects. Silent, speedy Snow Track may revolutionize winter grooming 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In a corral surrounded by a waffling, loose-weave wire fence some eight feet tall, a chocolate-brown alpaca lay in a heap, matted with blood, its long neck rumpled like a cast-off knee-high. Lions of Los Angeles 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The young Arthur received cast-off equipment, such as telephones, switch-gear and a photocell from his relative George Grimstone, an engineer who taught him to build wireless crystal sets. Technology: He wrote the future : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z “I Always Wanted It This Way” also sounds like a Floyd cast-off, and not in a good way. Music Review: Phish delivers uneven effort on ‘Big Boat’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Appalled by the “fuckload” of stuff that people had left behind, she filled her trailer with cast-off tents and sleeping bags and drove straight to the Jungle, intending to donate them. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Most of them wore cast-off Western clothing, except for one woman, who had on a traditional cotton robe with a hand-rendered design of black and white stripes. An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Outside St Gemma's Hospice charity shop, women are combing through a pile of cast-off clothes under the watchful eye of Lee Hiamey. Brexit: The city that took EU money but 50% voted to leave - BBC News 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Traditional efforts to reuse, repurpose and upcycle cast-off clothes into something worth selling has a tendency to result in a product not too far removed – in value or desirability – from the original discarded duds. Fashion and furniture partnership upcycles sweats into sofas, biker jackets into chairs 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z But after his cart was stolen in mid-March, he has a much harder time collecting cast-off items. Marvin's world: Nine lessons from homeless man's winter in NYC 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z It looks like a cast-off prop from the 1995 movie Johnny Mnemonic. The Avegant Glyph projects images directly on to your eyes 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z In time, he made a name by taking cast-off cars and roughhousing his way to the front. For a glorious time, no one mastered a machine like Dale Earnhardt Sr. 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Carnival and RCL no longer send elderly cast-off hulks from America and Europe to China. Eastward ho! 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But the worst fears of Isis brutality seemed to be confirmed with the discovery of two mass graves on the outskirts of the town, scattered with cast-off women’s clothing. Isis 'caliphate' setbacks may matter less to group as it changes tack 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Regenerated wool, Moore explains, comes from collecting and recycling cast-off fiber from factory floors in the initial manufacturing process. Surfer Kelly Slater launches a sustainable (but not inexpensive) clothing line 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Some of them jump on cast-off tires to warm up. AP PHOTOS: Myanmar athletes train amid traffic, keeping martial-arts tradition alive 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Her impassioned pitch hinges on the idea of sticking it to the patriarchy that shames and judges women like them by charging these same men for the inmates’ cast-off undergarments. Orange Is The New Black Is Back With A Cynical New Anti-Capitalist Message 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Silva also lacks the tools to protect emerging tribes from their biggest danger: infections that can lurk in something as innocent as a cast-off T-shirt. Feature: From deep in Peru’s rainforests, isolated people emerge 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He can remake and make do with cast-off material like few others can. Man, 82, still takes in dogs at Mountainside Pet Rescue 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z They eat our cast-off parrot food we put out for them. Birds that bring gifts and do the gardening 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s, he infused his Riverside City College team with cast-off African American players and won three state titles. Jerry Tarkanian always liked a good fight, as NCAA learned the hard way 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z His photographs frame cast-off, common things to reveal abstract patterns in the tradition of twentieth-century modernist photography. Works of architect, abstract landscape photographer featured 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Rail passengers outside the south-east of England are expected to put up with "cast-off" trains, MPs say. MPs criticise 'cast-off' trains 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But TurboRoo’s story - from cast-off pup to “Underdog of the Year” - is inspiring. 2-legged Chihuahua gains national fame 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Butterfly is walking with her friend; she is wearing Nicolas’s cast-off trousers, and the narrator is surprised by how well they fit her. A Risky Novel of Seduction and Betrayal 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The rotation looks nothing like General Manager Frank Wren envisioned in February – with cast-off Aaron Harang on pace for 200 innings, and somehow turning in a 3.60 ERA. Handicapping NL playoff contenders: Nationals lead the pack Among the cast-off cleaning products and outdated office supplies in the all-but-forgotten storage area were crates full of pig-shaped tchotchkes: salt and pepper shakers, gravy boats, ash trays, and all manner of figurines. City Room: At N.Y.U., a Mysterious Gift of Pigs 2013-05-12T15:30:54Z Ocean sediment has sand grains, cast-off shells, and microbial skeletons to spare. What Lives at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench? More Than You Might Think 2013-04-15T00:15:05.547Z We were talking about sort of the cast-off stuff, things are that are unstructured, doesn’t fit in the database. Cloud and Big Data, Together: A Huge Springboard to Innovation 2013-03-18T01:38:08Z There are cast-off Seattle DPs that meant more to the Fire than he did. Was Rafael Márquez the worst ever MLS designated player? 2012-12-13T18:42:08Z This vehicle, being of vintage character and my uncle's cast-off, possessed thin wheels and thus it scarred the previously coiffeured putting surface with two appalling parallel lines. I could swing for the sexists who run golf 2012-10-06T23:08:25Z Some of the cast-off material, though, settled into stable orbits farther from Pluto and coalesced into smaller moons. New Moon for Pluto: Hubble Telescope Spots a 5th Plutonian Satellite 2012-07-11T22:15:00.190Z No one can tell satisfactorily what made these precious followers of Simon Magus spend their days in patching up second-hand systems out of the rags of cast-off Oriental mysticism. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But there’s more than the cast-off data now capable of being analyzed as well. Cloud and Big Data, Together: A Huge Springboard to Innovation 2013-03-18T01:38:08Z They are particularly ingenious in carving; and Jack has many an opportunity of obtaining grotesque figures, cut from wood or slate-stone, for a cast-off garment or a half-dollar. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z I might with more reason go and sit beside a pile of their cast-off garments. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Elsewhere there was a man, stricken with a mortal ailment, who, upon the recommendation of a kindly neighbour, regularly dosed himself with an ill-flavoured liquid obtained by boiling cast-off pulley-blocks in water. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z They remember when they were poor, and they will give food and cast-off clothes even to this vagabond. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Jack Ketch was no longer to hang men for stealing a cast-off coat or petticoat worth five shillings and six pence, and what would become of England! Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z But Shanahan isn’t afraid of rolling the dice on another star quarterback turned cast-off. With release on the way, Peyton Manning will have plenty of options 2012-03-07T11:00:00Z All that was material seemed to have been thrown aside like a cast-off garment. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z The modern rowdy frequently appears in the cast-off manners of the old-time gentleman. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z They looked nothing better than "dirty, slouching ragamuffins," slipshod, in tattered and cast-off clothes of all sorts, on the verge of actual mendicancy, bits of rusty uniform appearing here and there amongst their cotton rags. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z As the “soldier” increases in bulk, it changes its habitation, and sometimes, for want of a better dwelling, is fain to content itself with the cast-off claw of a lobster or a defunct crab. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z In the times of the poverty of the order, the clothing of the serving-brethren was the cast-off garments of the knights. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z All in return for table scraps and skim milk and less than a weekly dollar's worth of stale bread and cast-off butcher-shop bones. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z I had not taken her things out of pawn before they were pawned again, and the cast-off clothes she begged from me followed as promptly. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Finally, he calmed down and promised to send me one of his cast-off cloaks to disguise me, in case I had to go into the streets. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z The attic of the Tower was a vast space more than half filled with every manner of cast-off articles that could have accumulated in a century past. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z The Scot was trying to explain that the Star had been made to order by his village blacksmith, when the English Duke chimed in, 'And he's wearing one of my cast-off coats!' A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z When he asked for a change of clothing, the cast-off suit of a soldier and a pair of old boots were sent him. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Her bus on a recent morning is like hundreds of others, a converted, cast-off American school bus ablaze with color, usually heavy on the red. Panama Journal: In Panama City, Red Devil Buses Yield to Paler, Safer Kind 2011-12-29T23:50:21Z All the cast-off rubbish from Paris is what you sell to me. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z He had canvassed his acquaintances for subscribers, and begged everybody he met to send him particulars of their cast-off memories. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z This younger daughter of Thalia invested the motley characters and masks of her invention with the cast-off mantle of her elder sister. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z "Now a cast-off garment, a thing useless, undesired." Captain June 2011-12-08T03:00:26.820Z So William Booth with his Salvation Army took to starting night shelters and cast-off clothing bureaus! The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Already the chosen route was dotted with cast-off articles, abandoned to lighten the loads. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z I will away for it speedily, right glad, I trow, the roguish pedler hath not fetched it, who gathers the cast-off dresses from your house. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z "Oh, yes, indeed," said Minnie, now quite convinced, eyeing her warm though cast-off frock with fresh interest. Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z I can even hide in the cast-off coat of a harmless snake, and woe to him who lays stick upon me or seeks to drive me away. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z But I recall a queerer one than that—how a cast-off crab suddenly developed into a race-horse and paid off a mortgage on a church. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Young oarsmen in a club are too often relegated to practise in cast-off boats with cast-off oars, none of which are really fit for use. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z With long entreaty I have learnt his name; And, as my yet unquestion'd word befits, 'Tis but a cast-off suitor of mine own! duchess I fear me this adventure still broods mischief. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The parcel contained cast-off clothes of almost every description; but, much as she required such aid, the manner in which it was offered determined her upon its rejection. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z It was true that the cast-off wastrel of two days ago was now one of the premier peers of England, hastening home to take possession of his fortune and estates. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z I put you next, because it might be a good thing for you to scratch your nag out of that first race and cotton to your cast-off. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z My share of this world's favour," said the crone, in acknowledgment of the skipper's bounty, "has never been more than the cast-off bravery of such as hold a high head over a wicked heart. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Banfi, however, since his voluntary surrender, had quite resumed his former sangfroid, and looking contemptuously over his shoulder at Csaky, said— "So your Excellency means in future to wear my cast-off clothes, eh?" 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z As they have looked, the crown of thorns has become a crown of golden radiance, and the cast-off robe has glistened like the garments He wore on the night of the transfiguration. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z An artist friend fitted her out with his cast-off palettes, brushes, and colors; and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z Many a time did she and Davy Ogden carry their loads of firewood on their backs up to the fort, glad to receive in exchange cast-off meat, stale bread or rum. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Hast no eye for thy family; no regard for good name, that you must be strolling o' nights with every pot-guzzler and foul-breathed and cankered cast-off of the wars? Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Dicky, with a cast-off jacket from the vicar's store, took to hanging about Liverpool Street Station in quest of bags to carry. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z By the use of machines under this system, a vast amount of material, cast-off rags, etc., before regarded as waste, was utilised for paper making. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z I have counted over a thousand cast-off shells on one small tree, and on one birch leaf I have seen twelve shells. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z "They also were negotiating some sales with the laundress, of cast-off clothing." Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z The cast-off coat, vest, hat and shoes of the lawyer assumed the look of dead-men's clothes unseasonably exhibited; and each even looked upon the other with horror because a spectator of the same catastrophe. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Then his sin, his anguish and his terror slipped from him like a cast-off garment, and for the first time in his manhood he wept. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Shakespeare’s spirit is not to be assimilated; this is impossible to a man of our time: one can but dress oneself up in the cast-off garment which served as a covering to his genius. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The first qualification was a tall person, that might set off to advantage such articles of the widow's cast-off finery as might be unnecessary for Agnes; the next, a willingness to accept low wages. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z Discarded vows fell away from him as a cast-off garment. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Jessie's cast-off dresses were remodelled by her nimble fingers into a variety of garments really marvellous. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z Say that in doing this, you took the last hope from the wronged and cast-off wife who came thousands of miles to claim something from the man who should have supported her. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Barbara skipped over to the trunk, where they kept odds and ends of faded finery, gifts from rich cousins who sent their cast-off clothes to the 43 little girls. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z The Calabrians hold that the cast-off skin of a snake is an excellent thing to put under the pillow of a sick baby. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z It would have been just as well, however, had they taken their time, for after breakfast came Carlos with a tale of cast-off shoes. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z On this cast-off section is a cosy, grassy nook, shaded by a cluster of red cedars. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z In every thicket round which Firmian had wandered in his poverty-stricken, miserable winter-autumn, he saw the cast-off skins of the snakes sticking, which in former days had twined themselves about his feet. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z So we changed partners and Mary went gaily off with my very good partner, who certainly danced better than any one I had before tried at Gresham, and I tripped off with the heavy-looking cast-off. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z The poor little church, flung aside now like a cast-off ecclesiastical garment, nevertheless showed signs of its former glories, when worshippers had given of their best to deck it forth. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z But Tridon: "No: because I dislike useless and ridiculous cast-off old clothes." History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z “You adore as divine the fallen nature and sinful energies of man:” “you, again, the cast-off body wherein Satan and sin were shut up, that he who assumed it might crucify them.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z My 6-year-old is smitten with the idea of selling anything she doesn't like anymore, from cast-off pebbles in her rock collection to formerly beloved dolls. Ditch the Piggybank. Teach Kids Financial Literacy Instead 2011-04-21T14:10:00Z Henceforth ye shall be at liberty to wear either cast-off rags or lay robes. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z The paper says that just when Britain needs the best, it risks getting a "second-best system that depends on second-best candidates and a pile of cast-off votes". Newspaper review 2011-04-17T04:59:49Z On a Sunday or a feast-day, the ebon ladies sally forth in all their glory, arrayed in their white sisters' cast-off finery, with low necks and short sleeves. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z For a long time earth had lain at his feet like a cast-off sandal. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Make the best market you can of their cast-off wardrobes. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The cry of the falconer, followed by a whistle, as the hawks were unleashed and cast-off. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z One fellow had on the cast-off coat of a policeman, too small to reach across his naked body, with a pair of trousers with scarlet stripes, billowing down to the uppers of his soleless shoes. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z She was the only lady present, with the exception of the major's wife, an insignificant, awkward woman, who was usually endowed with the Countess's cast-off gowns. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z I didn't know but perhaps you had a cast-off coat that you would be willing to give me. Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League 2011-03-03T03:00:48.280Z What a figure I should cut on horseback, without my boots—without my hat or doublet—without—” “Stash yer palaver!” cried Garth, who was busied making the cast-off clothes into a bundle. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z First she raked down a lark, then a corn bunting; and at the third cast-off overtook and bound on to a turtle-dove, big as herself. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Everything, from the “goodly Babylonish garments—the mantles of Shinar, from Assyrian looms,” down to the cast-off tarpaulin of discharged or disgraced tars, are on the backs of the denizens of the Liberties. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Should she have been on the ball enough to realize that she was about to eat a faceful of cast-off pennies and wishes? Australian newscaster hits co-anchor with scathing innuendo 2011-02-15T22:27:00Z "I can think of nothing more unlikely than that his Lordship should have selected his cast-off mistress as his wife's attendant," Judson drily remarked. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z Do they exhibit the common inventiveness displayed in almost every other walk of life, or do they even dress up their common platitudes in any other garb than the cast-off clothes of their predecessors? The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z Suppose we go up to the hill, and give my dear little Mer a cast-off?” No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Will Spurs cast-off Robbie Keane start for West Ham and can he overturn impressions that he is washed up by helping the Hammers to stay afloat? Premier League clockwatch ? live! 2011-02-02T19:16:00Z Beloved still, no longer a cast-off wife, and her long-lost brother Warren restored! The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z So completely does the cast-off arm resemble a separate animal, that it was described by Cuvier as a parasitic worm under the name 326of Hectocotyle. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z There is really nothing unnatural in this incident, or in that other story of some youthful miners coming by chance upon a woman’s cast-off skirt or hat, spontaneously forming a ring and dancing around it. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He was dressed in pants made of old sailcloth, and the tattered cast-off blouse of a Union soldier. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z He was a man of firm principles, and his principles would never permit him to wear a person's cast-off clothes. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z She made a dandy of him with Sharat's cast-off clothes, and gave him new ones too. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z Here and there the orchestras of the theatres, clad in the cast-off finery of the supernumeraries thereof, parade the streets, and make dissonance with their instruments. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z There is no romance about a cast-off clerk. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z A few days dragged slowly past, and then the lid of the little painted deal coffin hid from aching eyes the tiny spirit’s cast-off robe. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z Programs rarely involve potential employers and are typically too modest to enable cast-off workers to begin new careers. The New Poor: Job Training Struggles to Keep Pace in an Economy in Flux 2010-07-19T01:24:00Z The presence of cast-off skins also suggests that the loriciferans are growing on location. Multicelled Animals May Live Oxygen-Free 2010-04-12T14:15:00Z They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. 2010-02-01T17:20:00Z And, being a favourite with them all, for they both loved and feared her, her person was bedecked with their cast-off garments. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The newly formed chrysalis desires to be entirely independent of its cast-off skin, and to suspend itself directly from the silky carpet it has prepared. Butterflies and Moths (British) All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other 120 men and women; were made up of patches and pieces of other peoples’ individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper. In Jail with Charles Dickens From the ladies of the court, the fashions descend through all the ranks of society, until they at last die a natural death among the cast-off clothes of the housemaid. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress The little countess desired one of Bianca's cast-off Red Cross uniforms. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory He knew beforehand that it must have been some creature like this; some degraded, conscienceless, cast-off devil. The Man from Jericho We will now leave the caterpillar for a moment while we look at its cast-off clothes. Butterflies and Moths (British) You almost get on your knees to Laura if she but gives you a cast-off ribbon. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 Susanna's first frock was made from a cast-off red velvet dress, cut over, in which her mother once used to play queens. A Sister's Love A Novel And all the long-dormant but never wholly cast-off beliefs of his childhood awoke in his blood. Beggars on Horseback Why, only imagine, great ladies are accustomed to give their old, cast-off gowns, etc., to their maids. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Michael wished he could have an opportunity of explaining to Barnes that on account of Daisy's friendship for Dolly, he and she and the cast-off had spent a night in the police-cells. Sinister Street, vol. 2 She was about nine years of age, wore a cast-off dress, woman's size, and was barefooted. The Cottage of Delight A Novel That under a false name and history she has sought the shelter of his roof—she, the cast-off of his nephew? Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir “If God should wink at a single act of injustice,” says the Arab proverb, “the whole universe would shrivel up like a cast-off snake-skin.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Dressed up in the cast-off vices of his betters, he has passed for a man of fashion amongst his own set, while he is regarded as a wit by those who mistake malevolence for humor. The Fortunes Of Glencore She made a dandy of him with Sharat's cast-off clothes, and gave him new ones also. Stories from Tagore We spent an hour in wandering about the canning factory, looking over heaps of cast-off shells, admiring their beautiful lining, and choosing some to carry with us across country to a far distant home. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway "That was before I knew all the possibilities; before I knew what it means to——" "Don't say it," she interrupted, the mocking mood slipping from her like a cast-off garment. The King of Arcadia They will not be broken, nor through their unsoundness and insolvency will the “heavens roll away as a scroll,” nor “the universe shrivel up as a cast-off snake-skin.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The cast-off shells, resembling thin scales, and occurring in countless myriads in many ancient freshwater marls, impart to them a divisional structure, like that so frequently derived from plates of mica. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Over her coarse dress of some country stuff she wore, for warmth, the cast-off coat of a soldier, giving to her uncouth figure the semblance of an aged baboon at a village-show. Jack Hinton The Guardsman On my way home, tired and footsore, I resolved to call on a neighboring friend where gentlemen were more plentiful than with me, and ask for cast-off underwear. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 Nearly every Indian had some cast-off garment which had served its mission for a white man. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter She used to wear my cast-off clothes, and now what a figure she cuts! for all the world like a magistrate's wife, with her pocket full of money. Edelweiss A Story The doctor caught up his cast-off clothing and flung himself out of the room. Leerie Sea and land stirred once more with the accustomed affairs of busy men, but here between land and sea was the fringe of things, the deserted domain of wreckage and cast-off remnants. Where the Pavement Ends I can see Claudia sitting in that chair, telling us about the rich cousin who sent her cast-off clothes, and looking so wonderfully pretty and sparkling. What a Man Wills The fact of her father siding so entirely with her cast-off lover was as a tonic. In the Whirl of the Rising She could do nothing to help her father and mother; nay, might even be reduced to asking charity of her sisters, to begging their children's cast-off clothes for her own little ones. Edelweiss A Story He philosophically looked at the cast-off shoes that had gallantly limped with the two of them up and down the stairs and here and there in the streets on such devious missions. Fairfax and His Pride “Why,” was his answer, “I never knew before what the people of England did with their cast-off clothes.” Here and There in London When Gizzard went into the barn a moment later he found Sube standing in an attitude of dejection before a heap of cast-off shoes and clothing on the floor. Sube Cane Within this book he had inclosed one or two cast-off trifles belonging to Mrs. Eames, with a few words of deep and grateful affection. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 To improve the gentility of his appearance he put on a cast-off wig, which he procured from a servant. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia But were Abraham and David now on the earth, with what changed feelings would they regard the cast-off system of concubinage and a plurality of wives. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery Dull literalism would denounce the respectable solicitor who proposes to pay an experienced clerk principally in cast-off clothes, as a screw. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) There are the cast-off antlers after the battles have been fought—the female moose being without horns and entirely dependent on speed and hearing and smell for protection. The Story of the Trapper A figure, made up of straw and cast-off clothes, was drawn or carried through the streets amid much noise and merriment; after which it was either burned, shot at, or thrown down a chimney. Folk-lore of Shakespeare And so, from cast-off altars to the sun, New pleadings to new conjured gods arose; The selfish passions since the world begun, All seek supernal outlet on their foes. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation He also had a single epaulet that had come in a box of cast-off clothing. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North Three months had passed since the collapse of Lady Butts' well-meant little scheme, and no one had stepped into the cast-off shoes of her philosophical nephew—and Leonore had been bored, sadly bored. Leonore Stubbs Uniting under the names of North-West Fur Company and X. Y. Fur Company, they re-engaged the entire retinue of cast-off Frenchmen, woodcraftsmen who knew every path and stream from Labrador to the Rocky Mountains. The Story of the Trapper The rocky floor was covered with cast-off clothes, and among them were huddled together the sleeping-bags in which the party had spent most of their time during the last few months. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 The cast-off purple habits and shoes of Pagan emperors beautified the august persons of Christian popes. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning And as for this world, it is at my feet like a cast-off shoe, and all its gold and gear is as the wrack of the sea. Prisoners of Conscience The senior partner of the clairvoyant fortune-telling firm, the strong-minded one, according to their professions, has the arbitrary control of the cast-off souls that animate these refuse bodies. The Witches of New York I borrow'd that speech, excepting the last flourish, from my master: but since he has used it like his cast-off clothes, 'tis mine by custom. Olla Podrida One day, as she was exploring the garret, she found in an old barrel of cast-off rubbish a bit of reading which she begged of her grandmother for her own. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Time enough to note the guttering lamp, evil smell, the dismal aspect of my home afloat—then, on deck again, to haul, viciously despondent, at the cast-off mooring ropes. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea He dressed quickly, hiding his cast-off clothes in a corner of his wardrobe. Timar's Two Worlds For converting my cast-off garments to their use in winter. Banked Fires She seemed always to wear the cast-off garments of fine ladies, and we had an explanation of this fact. An Isle in the Water The spokes that I made of green oak, having become dry and wobbly, I had been on the outlook for a cast-off wheel, that I might appropriate the spokes. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 For all this I received my board, and some cast-off dresses and underclothes to make over for myself. Household Papers and Stories At the time when I went through them they contained nothing more dangerous than condemned shovels and pickaxes, empty bottles, old tin cans, metal lamps, dirty straw hats, discarded hammocks, and cast-off shoes. Campaigning in Cuba They or some compassionate woman would certainly give the fugitive some cast-off clothes, and then he thought he could make for the frontier. Jena or Sedan? If it were not for the cut of them I should think that all the cast-off clothing had been misdirected and had gone to Japan instead of Belgium. Letters from China and Japan In places the roadside was glutted with cast-off articles, such as had better be disposed of if haste and mobility were to be considered. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France The thing, or most of it, was an unanswerable challenge to the coldest wind of night—the cast-off raiment of full fifty little sables, that scoured the Russian woods in times gone by. When Ghost Meets Ghost I think it was a very good idea," added little Dorothy, "for if Ku-Klip hadn't used up your cast-off parts, they would have been wasted. The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter The cast-off lover of Arabella, the fleeing artist, or the thief of portraits from a New York millionaire's home? Seven Keys to Baldpate Are you not ashamed to go about the world in such a trim, with honest folk, I daresay, glad to buy your cast-off finery second-hand? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) Well-dressed he was not, even in his evening clothes, which were a cast-off of his brother's, and not, as evening clothes should be, faultless; but still they passed, and Henry always looked rather nice. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings In the matrimonial market a seasoned bachelor is just a shop-worn remnant; a divorcé is a cast-off, second-hand article; but a widower is a treasured heirloom inherited only through death. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl "He had no right to use our cast-off parts to make another man with." The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter Poisoned food, cheap, poisoned air, cheap, poisoned thoughts–all food and air and ideas, the cast-off refuse of your daily lives who live in these sheltered homes. In the Heart of a Fool At other time I wore white chillens' cast-off clothes so wore they was ready to throw away. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 He is an Englishman—the cast-off son of some noble house, I believe. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Pieces of cloth or rags are also mentioned among the entries; these were probably the remnants of cast-off garments dedicated by their wearers. Needlework As Art Inside the church, the pillars are covered with cast-off crutches, which faithful pilgrims leave behind when they go forth healed. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France In return for this she received, as a perquisite, her Majesty’s cast-off dresses, from the sale of which she realised an acceptable income. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time There is dribbling of saliva from the mouth and discharge from the nose, at first watery, becoming thicker and mixed with blood and small masses of cast-off croupous membrane, causing a very fetid odor. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Even if she is marryin' an old man an' a cast-off beau of her ma's, look at the ring he give her! Kildares of Storm If the toad did not always swallow its own cast-off skin, the bird would probably use that too. Ways of Nature Benda was a poor Moslem woman who lived in a goat's-hair tent on one of the plains mentioned in the Bible, a Bedouin Arab's cast-off wife. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It The cast-off sophisms and rhetorical rubbish of a past generation are patched up, scoured, and offered to the credulous present as something novel and excellent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 She actually had a day's holiday and a cast-off gown given to her as a reward for her labours. Amaryllis at the Fair Now that she had become the possessor of several cast-off dresses of Jemima's and Jacqueline's, her pleasure in them was a rather piteous thing to see. Kildares of Storm It was the unconscious form of Jim Langford, trussed with knotted ropes until it looked more like a bale of cast-off clothing than a human being. The Spoilers of the Valley Some one has asked: "What happens to the cast-off wives and divorced women among the Moslems?" Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Joseph Andrews, though he wears Lady Booby's cast-off livery, is, I think, to the full as polite as Tom Jones in his fustian suit, or Captain Booth in regimentals. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges In that country they apparently use a golf-bag to brew tea in, and cast-off bicycle wheels for plates. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The only annoyance comes from the cast-off nail of a horse-shoe or the sharp splinter of a macadamised stone. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland If I hadn't seen the steerage passenger smile when Mrs. Shuster accused him of being a gentleman and offered him cast-off clothes, I should have expected violence. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Quick good-bys are said, the carriage is entered and whirls rapidly away, followed by showers of rice and cast-off slippers, and the pretty scene is ended. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society And—more formidable than all the rest—she heard the tongue of her cast-off seaport, to whose reverence or disesteem she still instinctively referred all her triumphs and failures. Ghetto Comedies The little mason came to-day, in a hunting-jacket, entirely dressed in the cast-off clothes of his father, which were still white with lime and plaster. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Did he belong so utterly to the cast-off past? The Rainbow Every instinct of refinement and self-respect revolted from the thought of discarding the body like a cast-off garment or worn-out tool. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Maggie had been kind to Tildy once or twice, and had even given the general a cast-off dress of her own. The School Queens Deerhurst must not become a receptacle for all the cast-off burdens of humanity. Dorothy's House Party In this room were rows of trunks and boxes, and two big wardrobes hung full of cast-off clothing. Divided Skates He was so disgusted with the punt—so ashamed of the squat, weather-worn, rotten cast-off—that he wished heartily for a new one all the way to the grounds. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories He says the land portage from Fort McPherson to Fort LaPierre is lined with cast-off stuff that people have tried to carry and couldn’t. Young Alaskans in the Far North That near relative of the kingbird, the great crested fly-catcher, has one well-known peculiarity: he appears never to consider his nest finished until it contains a cast-off snake-skin. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 As it was, she followed his poor, cast-off, worn-out body as if she were borne along by some oppressive dream. The Grey Woman and other Tales It won't by stylish, try as I will, and your Aunt Susan hasn't sent me a cast-off of hers for the last two years. A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School Are you not ashamed to go about the world in such a trim, with honest folk, I dare say, glad to buy your cast-off finery second-hand? The Boy Scouts Book of Stories I’m always going out of my way to feed some of these cast-off dogs around town, so why shouldn’t I do the same for a poor devil of a husband? What's-His-Name The cast-off breeches and belts of the priests were torn to wicks, which they lighted. Hebrew Literature A junk-shop is where old ropes, old anchors, old iron, and cast-off odds and ends of all kinds are kept for sale. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They were not dressed like Italians, nor like any style of persons in particular, for their costume was evidently made up of cast-off garments that had seen better days. The Golden House The sides are ornamented with pegs stuck in the crevices between the stones, upon which hang saddles, bridles, horse-shoes, bunches of herbs, dried fish, and various articles of cast-off clothing, including old shoes and sheepskins. The Land of Thor After the play, Rice, having shaded his own countenance to the "contraband" hue, ordered Cuff to disrobe, and proceeded to invest himself in the cast-off apparel. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 There was beyond a question an epoch, and a prolonged one, when the mill shared with household demands an immense quota of the cast-off literature of these islands. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time There she sat, serene and happy, surveying her playthings with quizzical eyes; while her mamma gathered up bath-tub, towel, and cast-off clothes, and went up stairs to put them away. The Nursery, December 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers He has delivered the two heads of our great society into the hands of one of its cast-off branches! The Double Four Nearly every body gave them something to help them on their way—a few kopecks, a loaf of bread, or some cast-off article of clothing. The Land of Thor My clothing did not cost much, as I was the "happy" recipient of the cast-off clothes of the older members of the family. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements In due time we were all dressed for the drama; and, after making a cache of our cast-off garments, we struck tents, and moved forward to the performance. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness She had never possessed a rich or complete costume in her life; and there was a wondrous novelty in the anticipation of wearing dresses that were not remodelled from Pamela's or her mother's cast-off garments. Theo A Sprightly Love Story This was no less than a visit to the Castle, to beg one of the cast-off gowns of the women of the household. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Newly stripped of his cast-off nymphal skin, the Sacred Beetle possesses a strange costume, bearing no resemblance to the ebony black which will be the portion of the mature insect. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Most young people take readily to the idea of educating a picturesque savage and teaching him that the cast-off clothes they send him are better than his beads and feathers. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales The residuum is represented by the cast-off raiment of the novice. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts The younger son, endowed by nature with a gentle disposition, stayed with his mother, both living on the fruits of the forest and dressing in the cast-off rags of those charitable enough to give. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere What has become of the cast-off coats That covered Will Shakespeare’s back? Cobwebs from a Library Corner At "rummage sales," for a few pence, the women are now able to pick up surprising bargains in cast-off garments, which they adapt as best they can for their own or their children's wear. Change in the Village I have come out of the Emperor's stable, and no one there, not even the Emperor's horse, who, in fact, wears my cast-off golden shoes, has any idea of flying, excepting myself. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen I've come out of the stable of the emperor, and no one there, not even the emperor's favourite horse—that by the way wears my cast-off golden shoes—has any such idea. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales I can survive everything—except the cast-off clothes of my own epigrams,—or, by the bye, death. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 Most of the winter he slept in a hedge under a cast-off sail. A Village of Vagabonds The peasant outlook is out of date—a cast-off thing; and for cleaving to it the labourer is despised. Change in the Village She could get no bread for me, and I felt quite grieved to the heart that I should be cause of so much trouble to another, and be treated as a cast-off coin. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Under the cloud of cast-off identitieslay the shape of another man—was it himself? Monkey On His Back I knew of one feathered seeker of cast-off clothing which met disaster through trying to get a supply at first hand—a sparrow was 100 found dead, tangled in the hairs of a pony’s tail. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Ermengarde did not care to mention then that the dress was a cast-off garment of her Aunt Elizabeth's. The Children of Wilton Chase With the diabolical eye of a fiend she detected the woman who was wearing the dry-cleaned cast-off clothing of her sister in the city. In Our Town The gentleman," said Mr. Toombs, "seems to find pleasure in reveling in my cast-off errors. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage He might have been seen parading about town in a cast-off naval officer’s uniform with cap to match, and he was very proud, as befitted such an august personage. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria When a Turkish Sultan wishes to show especial honor to a subject, he makes him a present of one of the cast-off wives. Shepp's Photographs of the World She would give them beautiful dresses but none to her step-daughter who had only to wear the cast-off clothes of the other two. Europa's Fairy Book On her shining golden curls she had set a cast-off garden-hat belonging to Aunt Catharine, of brown straw, in what was known as the mushroom shape. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls He did despise her as a cast-off poor relation. The Opened Shutters Once in a while give them a holiday, or an evening off, a cash remembrance at Christmas, and from time to time some part of your wardrobe or cast-off clothing. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men She jumped out from it and strode away from it, as if it were a cast-off ware which she was never to see again. Young Hilda at the Wars “Be they a cast-off pair of his Majesty’s, or did my Lord Oxford so much alms to thee?” It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Poor child, her real, deep sorrows, expressed in such worn-out ill-fitting phrases, are as little touching as the beauty of a London shopgirl under the ready-made cast-off adornments of her second-hand finery. Emily Brontë He knew his austere old friend too well, and he could not picture him in the ridiculous rôle of husband of a cast-off courtesan. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The sloth they put on with the cast-off clothes of the white invader fell away from their natures as the voice of the old man droned in their ears. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush It's a disgrace to America—cast-off husbands and wives getting together in a parlour and playing tag under a palm-tree. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea He made no long speech, but “after a sort, seemed to be sorry” and asked forgiveness: and “with his crosses and his idle ceremonies” was cast-off, dying instantaneously. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot By this time the ground was littered with cast-off loads, while the natives fled in all directions. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series It seemed to the child that he was to live among orphans or cast-off children, and would be himself as much cast off as if he had come from Timbuctoo or Otaheite. Jack 1877 In the shade the men were lounging, indolent and indifferent, wearing such cast-off clothes as they had been able to beg or steal from station hands, and smoking tobacco obtained by a similar process. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush Down they went in every conceivable attitude, and, uncovering their feet, commenced pelting each other with the cast-off leathers. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy There was a time when anything was good enough for young people—cast-off clothing, second place at table and the poorest sleeping-room, with snubbing at every hand. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Hard work and cast-off clothes, and three grudgingly allowed months of school in the winter, made up Ted's life year in and year out—his outer life at least. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 It was a roomy old place, big enough to have comfortably housed a family in itself, and was filled with cast-off furniture and old trunks and boxes of discarded finery. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 Under the serpent-like branches, we find nothing but the cast-off skins of the snakes. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Only those who have lived three days without food can understand how delicious even those cast-off fish bones looked to me. Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos A snake might more easily crawl back into his cast-off skin. Fairy Fingers A Novel “Why for the Dominican, of course; you don’t suppose I want one of your cast-off exam papers, do you?” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story This was she in whose behalf he had weakly lowered himself to plead to his own cast-off slave for extenuating evidences! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Our carpets were made of our old cast-off garments torn into strips, the strips then sewn together at the ends and woven into carpet breadths by a neighbor, who took her pay in kind. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The rapidly changing styles cause people to throw upon the market a great amount of cast-off clothing only partially worn. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades "Not if I have to live in a wick-i-up three feet square, and wear your cast-off blankets," she answered, with some spirit. In Blue Creek Cañon My old dresses are cut down for her, but she can't leave me her cast-off ones. A True Friend A Novel "And a good cap, too; not an old cast-off thing!" Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School Descendants of the ancient race of Abraham, dealers in cast-off raiment, would have scorned to bargain for our rusty suits of Confederate gray. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War So"—as he grasped the money the fool gave him and stretched himself luxuriously beneath a noisome litter of cast-off clothes and rubbish—"I languish in ecstasies! Under the Rose Sometimes he got a suit of cast-off clothes in payment; sometimes only bed and board for a time. Flamsted quarries To this hut I surreptitiously conveyed a few utensils such as knives, mugs, etcetera, as well as a change of clothing and some cast-off garments as a fresh outfit for Jimmy. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer You have a cast-off son who perhaps at this very moment is standing on the threshold of destruction. The Day of Wrath But the antiquary, who has a natural taste for the cast-off raiment of the world, will doubtless fasten upon the volume; and the critical commentator may glean from it some scraps of obsolete information. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Then he asked them to leave him alone with me for a little while, and when they came back into the room, nothing remained of him but the cast-off mortality. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When we got near the schooner the boat cast-off, Senhor Silva saying that he would go on board, and send her back for us. In the Wilds of Africa It is the very cast-off slough of a polluted and shameless press.” Diary in America, Series Two "Maybe he's some cast-off relation, who got into trouble with them and then took himself off to that Snowshoe Island," was Fred's comment. The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box And so that poor, outcast, despised, dishonored woman, scorned and cast-off by all the world, had found one sympathizing, pitying friend. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time Two of them wore shoes with hobnails just as you see on this old cast-off shoe here. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot A few of the men were dressed in cast-off European garments, with rings round their arms and legs, their woolly heads being mostly uncovered. In the Wilds of Africa What he didn't know then, or I either, was that another lady was at the moment gadding about London in one of Mrs. Greville's cast-off frocks, and pretending to be that much-married female. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 The chief, in a cast-off military jacket, gave me welcome with a mouthful of low gutterals. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska This is beyond belief, yet it attracted no attention from the common people, who perhaps got the cast-off hats. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home A lot of cast-off clothes arrive from "A Sympathetic Parishioner!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 Part of the way it was strewn with the dusky yellow leaves of white-pines,—the cast-off garments of last year; part of the way with green grass, close-cropped and very fresh for the season. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 No doubt they will smile as they recall those nights amid their landlord's cast-off handiwork. A Daughter of the Middle Border Margaret did not know that they did, but it was perfectly possible that Mr. Montfort might have given some of his old clothes, a cast-off smoking-jacket, for example, to his gardener and confidential servant. Three Margarets It was a three-hour job, but when I was through I'd renovated up that cast-off toggery so that it looked as good as if it had been just picked from the bargain counter. Shorty McCabe He saw a glorified edition of himself, attired in my lord's cast-off garments, and engaged in the act of stretching out the laced waistcoat in the kitchen at the Hall. Aunt Rachel She had found a pair of Daddy's old cast-off boots, tied rags about her feet, and clambered into them. Tess of the Storm Country The upstairs chamber in which I had slept for so many years presented a filthy clutter of chicken feathers, cast-off furniture and musty clothing. A Daughter of the Middle Border There lay upon the floor the little cast-off garments. Hubert's Wife A Story for You It was the ex-spy clad in the cast-off suit which Stair had taken off the first morning after their coming to the island. Patsy Mrs. Brown, who had given the Shop a lot of discarded articles, purchased several discarded articles donated by Mrs. Smith, her neighbor, while Mrs. Smith eagerly bought the cast-off wares of Mrs. Brown. Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls Does he realize, too, that I am any more to her than her other cast-off lovers and would-be friends? The Old Stone House and Other Stories And so they got hold of an old, cast-off officer's cloak of this colour and threw it over His shoulders. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion He was an old man, evidently a descendant of Ishmael, and clothed in what seemed to be a ragged cast-off suit that had belonged to Abraham or Isaac. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story They contented themselves with washing out enough to purchase a few articles of luxury, in the shape of cast-off apparel, from the white men. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West “By the united action, sir, of soap and water, needles and thread, scissors, cast-off garments, and Love.” Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Then with a light bound he sprang forward, grasped a little piece of cord, and pulled out from beneath a heap of rubbish what appeared to be an old cast-off moccasin. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice It went to sleep, apparently gorged, on a heap of the cast-off garments of its victims, to awaken thirty years later to victorious and venomous life. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power The snakeskin bird gets its name from its habit of using the cast-off skins of snakes for decorative purposes. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals At the commencement of the University of Georgia the orator of the occasion appeared in a suit of white cotton cloth, while his valet wore the cast-off suit of shining broadcloth. Expansion and Conflict It so happened that my master had gone to Capua, to dispose of some cast-off finery. Gryll Grange There sits enthroned this cast-off bauble of some nursery, emblazoned with jewels enough to supply the means to educate the whole population of Mexico. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited He observed the skiff alongside; and his eye falling on Lawrence, he very naturally at first took him to be some poor fisherman habited in the cast-off finery of a gentleman. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War Some of them are dependent on their own ministrations, while others are greatly assisted by humble little servants, whose only remuneration is domicile, the cast-off clothing, or the garbage and refuse from their host's table. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals This and the old hair is shed in May and June; and in districts occupied by the flocks at that season the bushes and sharp corners of rocks are covered with their cast-off winter coats. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Jack had a book from his father, a knitted tie from Betty, skates from his mother—oh, for a good hard frost!—some cast-off tools from Miles, and a packet of black sticking-plaster from Jill. Betty Trevor His manners, too, seemed to have changed with his outer apparel, the off-hand boorishness of the whilom “deck hand” having vanished with his cast-off raiment. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes “Raise tacks and sheets!” and the fore-tack and main sheets were cast-off, while the weather main brace was hauled taut. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story Sarcoptes hominis is eminently a creature of filth, and is primarily a scavenger living on the dead and cast-off products of the skin. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals They were none too soon; for, hardly had they got on board, ere the engine-gong sounded and the steamer’s paddles began to move, the vessel gliding out into the stream as her hawsers were cast-off. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Jackson, and those with him forward, having now done as much as they could to cast-off the foremast gear, Captain Miles hailed them to come aft. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea Often a cast-off skin of a snake is used, and sometimes the end is permitted to hang out of the hole—a sort of "scare-crow," perhaps, intended for the notice of annoying neighbours. The Bird Study Book It was that, instead of having my outer raiment composed, as previously, of Ralph’s cast-off garments, I was measured for an entirely new suit of my own. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story I am sure Pyramid would have wanted this worn-out, cast-off tool of his to end his days decently," goes on Mr. Steele; "but to give him a lump sum would be worse than useless. Shorty McCabe on the Job Before I started I buried the dead man, and along with him my cast-off clothes, in a pit in the wood, which I covered over with leaves and moss. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 The empty launch with the negroes was now cast-off, and preparations made for raising the anchor again and making sail. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea “First,” said I, “put on this cast-off suit of mine, which I thought to give away to a beggar man, once; but thank Heaven I did not.” Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess The Esmeralda having completed loading in her cargo sooner than the owners had expected, had cast-off from the jetty and was now lying in the stream off the harbour. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story That indeed was bad enough, but, I argued, the lumber room was full of old cast-off shoes and bottles, and these would probably be set down as fragments of the rubbish displaced by the explosion. Tom, Dick and Harry By Jove! you are too big to wear my cast-off suits now. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Captain Miles, however, had given him some cast-off slops, and the hands forward had also rigged him out from their chests, so that in a short time he made a very presentable appearance. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea When somebody falls ill his family get a Brāhman’s cast-off sacred thread, and folding it to hold a little lamp, will wave this to and fro. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala His jacket was an ill-fitting garment, the cast-off coat of some well-to-do man, and his trousers slouched in ample folds above brightly beaded moccasins. Lords of the North This apparition gave me such a start, That I endowed him with a cast-off pair Of inexpressibles, and said, 'Depart, And be no longer bare.' Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses Thus time glided on until I was twenty years of age, and full six feet in height, and I could no longer wear the cast-off suits of my cousin. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Looking back Mary saw the mother bird fluttering wildly about over the cast-off pile of leaves. The Coming of the King They therefore tear up their cast-off threads or sew them into clothes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala The clothing of the Negrito consists simply of the breechcloth and an occasional cast-off shirt given him by some Filipino in exchange for articles. Negritos of Zambales They were uncurtained, too, every one, and grimed with dust: and through this dust we could see rows of cast-off suits dangling within like limp suicides. The Adventures of Harry Revel Among all my petty trials there were none which I felt more keenly than having to wear the cast-off clothes of my cousin. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I In the wilderness of the Up Country wander some two or three thousand cast-off wood rovers of the old French fur trade. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom An appeal for cast-off clothing for the poor clergy being made, some one took the line that such an appeal was infra dig. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions Who knew but the débris at its foot was merely the cast-off sweat and exuviæ of a stone life's great work-day? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 He stared into the empty passage, out of which a room opened on either hand, each hung with cast-off suits which seemed to sway slightly in the scanty light filtered through the shutter-holes. The Adventures of Harry Revel I'm a lady, I am, and me mother was a lady before me, and I don't accept cast-off clothes fer Christmas prisints. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays The worldliness has slipped from me like a cast-off shell; now I experience a democratic indifference to my Lady Silverhampton, and a brotherly affection for Mr. Edgar Ford. The Farringdons Every old-clothes shop on Petticoat Lane must have contributed its allotment of cast-off apparel. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army Here you may find the cast-off finery of the wife of a millionaire—the most of it stolen—or the discarded rags of a pauper. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City In a few years more it might lie outside the lecture-halls and renowned churches as thoroughly discarded as a cast-off garment. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Enriched by a pair of cast-off breeches, and the worn leggins thereto, he rode now with both feet in the stirrups and looked square between his horse's ears. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West The feeling of unrest, which had oppressed her for so many years, now fell from her like a cast-off garment. The Farringdons I never give away any but my cast-off plumage. Among the Farmyard People It seems as if all New York had placed its cast-off clothing here for sale, and that the stock had accumulated for generations. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But, like many a ball-room beauty, when the time comes for putting aside the gay leafy attire, it is sadly untidy, and makes a great litter of its cast-off clothing. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Its cast-off skin was carefully collected by the savages and stored in the medicine bag as possessing remedial powers of high excellence. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America "There's an old dress of Ellie's you can have, an' a pair of Sue's cast-off boots, and Tom's old cap." The Making of Mary I wanted desperately to be alone with this cast-off garment of Sidney Vandyke's—alone with any secret I might force it to yield up. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley That lady had previously won and lost a second spouse, but, it appeared, was then in such straits for another husband, that she was willing to take up with her own cast-off household furniture. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A few minutes later they started, Vincent leading the horse and Tony carrying the bundle of food and his cast-off uniform. With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War Nevertheless, in religious circles, old time prejudices and slow conservatism, clinging to its creeds, as the hermit crab clings to the cast-off shell of oyster or clam, 56still resist it. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 They are old and ragged, the cast-off finery such as is picked up by street gamins. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation He was not of the type that submits to being manhandled and browbeaten into purchasing cast-off garments. The Substitute Prisoner Paul took advantage of the animal's attention being wholly centred upon Fritz, to run out upon the field, and pick up the cast-off staff of the busy scout. Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps He looked again at the heaps of cast-off clothing on the floor and his gorge rose within him. Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love Then came a day of warm rain, that washed away the last fragment of earth's cast-off vesture, and bathed her pure for the new adornment that was to be laid upon her. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Pepita protested when she saw these cast-off garments, showing an aversion to putting on those underclothes which seemed worn and old. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) "It's for an amateur theatrical performance," Whitmore explained to the proprietor, who was unable to hide his surprise that a customer of such seeming prosperity should invest in these cast-off garments. The Substitute Prisoner "I see one thing," said Wentworth, "and that is that I'm not inclined to marry your cast-off mistress." Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron It was not an uncomfortable position, for the floor was carpeted and an old satchel filled with his cast-off garments furnished him a pillow sufficiently soft for a person on extraordinary duty. Stand By The Union Sometime you may find these cast-off dragon fly overcoats. The Insect Folk In addition to their wages they also receive lodging, cast-off clothes, and are trained in matters of household economy and taste. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Jim: So, I may have young master’s cast-off boots, Since he’s stepped into my shoes—a fair swap! Krindlesyke Nobody wanted it; so he acquired it as he acquired the cast-off hat that he wore. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story About five o'clock he put on a gray wig and some old cast-off clothes, and walked to the door. Choice Readings for the Home Circle He has brought us the cast-off skin of a cicada to look at. The Insect Folk One or two old canoes could be seen on the other side; cast-off property of the Etchemin Indians who had broken camp. The Lady of Fort St. John Anne had lifted her veil,—a feature in her smart tribute to convention,—and her lovely features were revealed to the cast-off sister-in-law. From the Housetops His clothes were mostly a pair of cast-off overalls, which had not been discarded by the original owner until he was in danger of arrest for indecent exposure. I Married a Ranger The nest is usually on the ground in some sheltered place under brushwood that forms a good protection, and the nest is lined with leaves, grass, or their own cast-off fur. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Down in the grass are the cast-off coats of the grasshoppers and the crickets. The Insect Folk Annesley could follow the passing moments on her wrist-watch in its silver bracelet, the only present Mrs. Ellsworth had ever given her, with the exception of cast-off clothes, and a pocket handkerchief each Christmas. The Second Latchkey "They were not really what you would call cast-off garments, ma'am," he explained in some haste, evidently to save his dignity. From the Housetops In a nest recently abandoned this zone is covered with fine cast-off skins which shiver at the least breath, and soon disappear when exposed to the open air. Social Life in the Insect World When all is done and in the oozing clay, Ye lay this cast-off hull of mine away, Pray not for me, for, after long despair, The quiet of the grave will be a prayer. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The ground was brown with their cast-off needles, and the air was pungent with their fragrance. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories It is, however, but as a cast-off vestment of the Soul, and is incapable of endurance as ghost. Death—and After? This long anticipated interview with her daughter's cast-off, bewildered lover was inevitable. From the Housetops There are certain cast-off articles of clothing, certain rags and tatters, left on the threshold of the egg-chamber by the new-born grubs as they leave it and hurry in search of a new lodging. Social Life in the Insect World My third attempt to woo Fortune was to set myself up as a dealer in cast-off boots and shoes, my idea being to buy, sell and exchange. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Several of the Spanish sharpshooters had picked up cast-off clothing of the American soldiers, and wore them while they were at their deadly work. Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain The floor of the big dormitory was littered with rubbish—miners' cast-off clothing, shoes, broken lamps, and in a corner there was a junk-heap of broken bedsteads, slats, army blankets and sodden mattresses. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Every one of those defaced and cast-off books may be a messenger of life to some starving soul. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Beyond the door lay a raftered garret half filled with cast-off house lumber and lighted and aired by two high roof windows. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady We do not glory to quote our costume, dress in cast-off court robes, or furnish our houses from the marine store. Certain Personal Matters She could not herself have defined her reason for refusing her cast-off lover this one comfort, but it was not so much loyalty as the fear of disloyalty which led her to do so. Pembroke A Novel The eternal questions of sin and poverty were to be answered by the pious phrases and the cast-off junk of immature students. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Professor Putman describes a number of cast-off sandals from Salt Cave, Kentucky, as "neatly made of finely braided and twisted leaves of rushes." Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 Would a humorous anecdote of the happy gratitude of a child for a cast-off toy be good to produce emphasis? Public Speaking They were the cast-off eccentricities of the fashions of six years ago, and had drifted from the Rue de la Paix to this obscure Serbian shop which was selling them as serious articles of clothing. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia The result of her search was three or four cast-off garments, which the cook said "were so bad the rag man would hardly buy them." Tempest and Sunshine She stirred his youth and his cast-off dreams by her own youth and zest for it all. His Second Wife He saw the purple robe upon Him, but it was the cast-off garment of a Roman Governor. A Life of St. John for the Young That evening, clean-shaven, freshly-bathed, dressed in a cast-off suit of James Nippit's, whole if slightly rusty, and robbed of its clerical significance, Nickie the Kid attended a religions function with his reverend employer. The Missing Link Now he is a cast-off wreck of the system that made him. Class of '29 Formerly Foreign-Office messengers were the cast-off butlers and valets of secretaries of state. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. The polite store-keeper promised to send the farmer's cast-off garments to the vessel, and Mr. Sherwood was soon introducing his friend to the members of his household. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Her shoes were several sizes too large, and were some person's cast-off ones. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope The coat, in fact, was a cast-off one of Mr. Wesley's, narrow in the chest, short in the sleeves, but inordinately full in the skirts. Hetty Wesley The grave, that now doth press Upon that cast-off dress, Is but his wardrobe locked—he is not there! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation A young man having refused to marry one of his cast-off mistresses, he was enlisted in the army, but after some months submitted to his fate. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Rhoda, followed the squaw and together they folded the cast-off clothing. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert The hotel-keeper had unconditionally refused to trade, and here, when a heaven-sent alternative was delivered into their hands, they found themselves hampered by the coils of a cast-off lie. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Bacchus was the same size as his master, and often fell heir to his cast-off clothes. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is When his service was complete, he took up the bowl and cast-off dress and went forth. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Gantry's playful mood fell away from him like a cast-off garment. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush A handsome, rich, and imposing city, though content to accept a cast-off station from Paris, as a poor relative would accept a cast-off suit of clothes. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Even if she had wanted to she could not in the presence of the appreciative Mr. Briggs resume her cast-off severity and begin rebuking again; but she did not want to. The Enchanted April He returns covered with glory, and is rewarded by the King, who has discovered his connection with Leonora, with the hand of his cast-off mistress. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Several strips of linen were scattered over the floor, with the customary litter of dried leaves, dust, refuse brought by rodents, cobwebs and the cast-off chrysalides of insects. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt From old stubs out of cast-off shoes Mr. Allison shod a horse for Fisherman to accompany me to the O'Shanassy River. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The Germans, who made heroes of robbers, and honest women of cast-off mistresses, had already exhausted the extravagant and marvellous in sentiment and situation: our native writers adopted a wonderful simplicity of style and matter. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution "Once more the cast-off plumage of the Peacock family is left for me!" croaked the Crow to himself. The Curious Book of Birds She was dressed well, evidently in her mistress's cast-off clothes, for she wore a handsome silk dress and mantle. Uncle Max "Ah, Monsieur Paul," said the lackey, hiding the cast-off clothing in the closet, "I am that glad to see you safe and sound again!" The Grey Cloak Why, sir," replied Corrigan, "he gives: me a cast-off wig once a year, God bless him!—This is his I have on me. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two How durst you take the liberty of sending one of your cast-off strumpets to attend personally upon my pure and virtuous daughter? Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Now it was his delight to behold the Parisians of the Boulevard or the clubs buy as sentimental rags the cast-off garments of his passion. His Excellency the Minister One was particularly fine,—doubtless a cast-off dress of the bride's former mistress. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 The poets, in particular, instead of finding a challenge to their imagination in the new life about them, are apt to go on imitating the cast-off literary fashions of the mother-country. Initial Studies in American Letters It is the vice, but not the excellence of manners, that they are continually being deserted by the character; they are cast-off clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Things, therefore, in his view are no longer empty and hollow like old cast-off shoes, but pieces of sublime design. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 He smiled, and stepped out of it, as out of a cast-off garment. The Poor Little Rich Girl "And a few cast-off winter memories," she said. The Firing Line "How will you ever keep me at home after this?" she said, as Phyllis and Nell stood surveying her dressed in one of their cast-off frocks, of a rose-coloured tint which suited her brunette complexion. Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。