I, too, think on Hobbes every time the word smock pops up. smocksmocksmock. From Wordnik.com. [Painterly Fashion] Reference
Probably it is the sting from not getting that smock, which is entirely understandable. From Wordnik.com. [This Just In: Plugs and Deliberations] Reference
You would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square ont. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene III. The Winters Tale] Reference
His young apprentice, however, took off his smock. From Wordnik.com. [The Paprika Ewer] Reference
There was a notebook and a pencil in my laboratory smock. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference
"Ladies 'smock" is another name for this harbinger of Spring. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Her smock was pink in the bright sun; she shaded her eyes with her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Autumn] Reference
He wore a white smock with red and blue embroidery at the neck and wrists. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Then he gave chase, and soon caught sight of a vanishing blue linen smock. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
The men of the family wore a white linen smock for weddings and great occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
Strapping young women were induced to run against each other for a new smock or hat. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The sight of this smock-frock brought to my recollection many things very dear to me. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
She saw that he wore a familiar, patched, blue smock, baggy trousers, and wooden shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Likewise, the smock, and baggy trousers, like those worn by Nicko the chocolate peddler. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
The short, loose sleeves of her fringed leather smock gave freedom to her strong brown arms. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
A sense of mission animates the women who wear the project's trademark green smock over their saris. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Light Revolution] Reference
Ed wore a black barber's smock, and a white mask over his mouth and nose as he worked on a customer. From Wordnik.com. [Credentials] Reference
Or just 'cause I'm singing about a woman having a baby doesn't mean I have to wear a maternity smock. From Wordnik.com. [DOLLY SINGS IT BACK HOME] Reference
Suddenly she realized that she recognized the ragged blue smock and the old droop-brimmed hat he wore. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Bob placed her on a scaffold, donning a dirty smock and clunky loafers, one or two brushes posed in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference
My chin sags towards my chest and I stare at the corporate logo stamped in a checkerboard pattern on my smock. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Jeans and Black Leather] Reference
Dawn was already approaching — a thin and dilute orange band against a smock of darkening grey on the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
Look what it's got me, I say, spreading my palms to encompass my chain store smock, the store, this situation, my life. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Jeans and Black Leather] Reference
A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
Also, I was wearing a pinafore over a white smock and Buster Brown shoes; these may have attracted the children as well. From Wordnik.com. [My Date With Satan] Reference
The boy, probably about 10 or 11 years old, was wearing a smock frock, loose below, but fastened fairly tight about the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Again, she picked up the phone, and two seconds later a girl in a starched white smock appeared from behind the white curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Mustache] Reference
I'd find once jagged pieces rubbed down by the years; I'd carry these pieces with me under my smock and remember the impulse to run. From Wordnik.com. [I know everything's broken, but still I pretend] Reference
And then she took flowers and fresh grass and green leaves, and bound them on with the lappet of her smock, and he was quite healed. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
He wore the full uniform of a Mentorian on Lhari ships: the white smock of a medic, the metallic blue cloak, the low silvery sandals. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Doc had whipped off his Duncan beard and thrown on a brown smock and hood to play the Porter with his normal bottle-roughened accents. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
Oread beneath the smock of a girl in her teens; this, merciful Heaven, to be a vortex when poets are swirling down the stream of Time. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
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