Huntsman has a unique reputation when it comes to tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [Cut From Woven Cloth] Reference
Looking forward to those muted tweeds and ruddy hues of autumn?. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Fashions: Recycled In More Ways Than One] Reference
GEELONG (25,000) locally noted for its manufacture of "tweeds.". From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
A man in tweeds came on backwards and collided with the hammock. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
He beamed, walking ahead in his handmade tweeds, crocodile shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
A tall, good-looking man in tweeds was shaking hands heartily with. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
And his dusty tweeds and traveling cap was no calling costume. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Carruthers handed me the coveralls, and I pulled them on over my tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Doctor Hilary in a shabby overcoat or loose tweeds, was the usual sight. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He is clothed in tweeds or flannels and usually wears an old Wykamist tie. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
"Why not?" replied the other; "surely we are not going to pull in tweeds?". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference
“Like what?” said Harriet, who was wearing her practical country tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
A lanky young man in tweeds and horn rims was stuffing pages in a briefcase. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
For the rest, her vast person was clad in baggy tweeds and a tent-like blouse. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
The man, middle-aged and breathless, was dressed in tweeds and a deerstalker cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
He went back to the house, and came out again clad in a rough suit of tweeds and a helmet. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
KAPUR: The Camilla Parker Bowles caught her fiance's attention wearing tweeds and jodhpurs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2005] Reference
The hosier hurried forward, obviously anticipating a princely order for tweeds at war prices. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919] Reference
Paul, in ordinary tweeds, stepped quickly out of the darkness into the rays of the candelabra. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
"Larsen's the man to bring him out," said the big man in tweeds, who was George Devant himself. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
"And instead --" Ryder glanced down at his tweeds with humorous recognition of his change of figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
His tweeds, stained with drink and paint, have once been well-made, and still preserve a certain distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
It wouldn't do to waste coal when it was nearly February, thought Amelia, snuggling deeper into her heavy tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
In tweeds or pin-stripe and a bowler hat he would be almost perfect, although not as avuncular as Patrick Macnee. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
In the latest issue of American "Vogue," she's pictured sitting on a horse, also wearing those very English tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2005] Reference
They run around in tweeds owning huge estates and speaking in strange accents like Michael Ancram and Alex Douglas Home. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Turkish bath establishment, and that gave us an opportunity to change into some rough tweeds that I'd shoved in the bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Lunatics who wore fancy tweeds, shaved, devoured their fellow-creatures and imbibed poisonous acids were bound to catch cold. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919] Reference
They are used in the production of low and medium tweeds -- fancy woolen cloths not requiring small yarns or milling qualities. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The story had got about by this time; people stopped to stare at the man in tweeds and the bride in her full array in the hansom. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Sir Francis was leaning back in an easy-chair with one leg crossed squarely over the other knee, and in spite of country tweeds and. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
Behind him came Pauer, in tweeds and a white waistcoat, his face gold colour with his ancient jaundice, and his eyes a pale saffron. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A West-end cut is not achieved, but for flannels, light tweeds and all such clothes as are worn in the tropics, they are very passable. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
He was like a gray lion, his hair swept back in a mane, dressed in a snazzy charcoal suit instead of the usual threadbare set of tweeds. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Their readings together, in the age of "the generation gap," were considered a great show — Louis in his tweeds and Allen in his beads. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
"Maybe these London tweeds are taboo in this central zone," he grumbled as he made his way up the shaded street to the business district. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
So Hugh Alston was here in rough, shaggy tweeds, sitting on the self-same seat beside the old stocks where most mornings Ellice Brand came. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
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