I'm going to stop by my neighborhood army-surplus store, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [13th Floor Elevators :: You Don't Know] Reference

I feel like I'm back in the good old days of army-surplus ham radio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silly computer tricks] Reference

She pulled up the army-surplus blankets, turned on the light and nudged him awake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole in the Wall « A Fly in Amber] Reference

I hunt in army-surplus jungle camo wearing a bright orange vest (during deer season).    From Wordnik.com.  [Does scent eliminating clothing really work?] Reference

A ten-by-ten-foot army-surplus tent had been pitched at the edge of the nearest field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

And my damned army-surplus knee has decided to file a grievance with the shop steward.    From Wordnik.com.  [New England Weather] Reference

Or anyway, my army-surplus knee hates it, with draws the rest of me along for the ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax...] Reference

Here in the UK, we're accustomed to seeing the DPM battledress, either worn by soldiers or army-surplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

An ex-girlfriend of mine was a Canadian Reservist and would bring home army-surplus waterproof notebooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rite-In-The-Rain notebooks for shower idea capture] Reference

After fetching the army-surplus foxhole shovel I keep in the Camaro's trunk, I continued my spiral search.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Great archive page about the guy who flew around in a lawn chair tied to a bunch of army-surplus weather balloons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: October 29, 2000 - November 4, 2000 Archives] Reference

Using her restraining hands to his advantage, he moved forward until he'd backed her into an army-surplus file cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where There's Smoke]

Ramp allowed Lucy the small sofa that was tucked into one end of the trailer while he curled up on an army-surplus cot ten feet away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning Signs]

Cath began to hum as she felt around in her purse — a khaki army-surplus map bag that doubled as her kitbag — for a pack of cigarettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]

He had a frizzed-out, no-cut haircut, and carried an enormous army-surplus backpack that sagged with beat-up lefty books and bags of organic vegetariania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

Dressed in army-surplus clothes and carrying a woven basket packed with supplies, he dug through the rubble of his son's elementary school, unsuccessfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescue Effort Overwhelms China] Reference

For no logical reason — except that the muffled faces, army-surplus overcoats, and binoculars suggested maneuvers — she decided she was deal­ing with a soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Among the passengers were clusters of long-haired adults in well used army-surplus clothing, looking for all the world like hippies taking in the world-famous landmark.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism’] Reference

I went to the closet and took out my duffel bag of decoys, my army field jacket, and the old army-surplus bandolier I used when the hunting weather was too warm for a coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neon Rain] Reference

The army-surplus over­coats, balaclavas, and scarves had been handed out by Fox the day before at the rendezvous, with instructions to wear them every time they went outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

When I got out of the truck, the cold air cut into me, even though it was only early August, and I put on my army-surplus jacket that I had used for duck hunting in Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference

It was an impossible task; it would have been an impossible task with the aid of an army-surplus canvas tent, and all she had to cover herself with were her hands and forearms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

While he was at it, he also bought a kit for measuring blood pressure, a gas mask and a desert camouflage army-surplus jumpsuit which the site claimed could withstand chemical weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Fearful Symmetry] Reference

The same androgynous woman answered again, presum­ably because she was the figure he was looking at: big and burly in an army-surplus overcoat and with an accent straight from the Essex marshes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Hidden away in the English countryside, these simple shelters, made of coppiced hazel and willow covered in army-surplus canvas and other easily sourced natural materials, are part of a fine tradition of independent and ecologically savvy homemaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre] Reference

Whatever the explanation, however, the outcome was what we witnessed last week – massive coverage of Steve Jobs strutting his stuff in San Francisco, while over in Berlin poor old Fujio Nishida, president of Sony Europe, might as well have been flogging army-surplus radios in a Baghdad souk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple drives another nail into sluggish Sony's coffin] Reference

Mabey took over the running of the firm from his father Bevil, who built up the business, having started out buying army-surplus portable Bailey bridges after the second world war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Like The Black Keys and Kings Of Leon, Boston combo Black Helicopter manage to find something fresh and distinctive in the kind of heavy rock music that's the musical equivalent of an army-surplus greatcoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

He'd stuffed it all into a green army-surplus paratrooper bag, that he slung over his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference

Nowadays most of the ones you’ll see begging in army-surplus clothing are not really vets — they never could have passed the physical and psych exams, even if they’ve convinced themselves they served.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Right to Arms in the DC(!) Consitution] Reference

The -gypsy" turned out to be half Irish and half Puerto Rican and was not pregnant long: she suffered a miscarriage after falling in a hole one night while out in the brush with an army-surplus flashlight catching mice to feed the snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Roadside Attraction]

I bought a casing at the army-surplus store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulletproof Girl] Reference

"… A small determined group suited up for battle … wearing … motorcycle or army-surplus helmets … goggles and gas masks, heavy boots and gloves … Most of us carried an arsenal of … steel pipes and sling shots, chains, clubs, mace, and rolls of pennies to add weight to the punch … our bonfire was full up, feeding on … splintered park benches ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian] Reference

I carried my books in an army-surplus knapsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Freeze-thaw, freeze-thaw, you need a vehicle on the order of an old army-surplus "deuce-and-a-half" to navigate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hajj update] Reference