Miss Snark is laughing so hard she wrinkled her Sunday go-to-meeting ensemble. From Wordnik.com. [12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006] Reference
In the two closets of this chamber were mine hostess's cloak, best bonnet, and go-to-meeting apparel. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Deborah asked, hands on her hips in her Sunday go-to-meeting outfit that was ready to come off at any time. From Wordnik.com. [A Love So Deep] Reference
Unwilling to finish us off and pull the trigger, they are so desperate to preserve their Sunday go-to-meeting persona of the good guy. From Wordnik.com. [The World They've Always Wanted] Reference
It is further reported that the large collection of go-to-meeting hats, frock-coats, and patent-leather boots extorted universal admiration from all beholders. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890] Reference
Why, you might as well say we ought to pull down Westminster Abbey, and put up a go-to-meeting shop with churchwarden windows; or never read Shakespeare, but only Sheridan Knowles. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
That meant his best robes, for our durbar appearance at noon, with Flashy in full fig of frock coat and go-to-meeting roof, making my official bow to little Dalip enthroned in state; you'd not have recognised the lively imp of yesterday in the regal little figure all in silver, nodding his aigretted turban most condescendingly when I was presented by Lal Singh, who was second minister. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
I only spoke because you're so all-fired go-to-meeting like. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Cousin] Reference
Sunday go-to-meeting clothes, whereas I can 'rag out proper.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
Tell you what, I shook the creases from my go-to-meeting pants. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp] Reference
I won't put on my Sunday go-to-meeting clothes when I go a-walking with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
I won't put on my Sunday go-to-meeting clothes when I go a walking with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
He wore neither wig nor gown, and had not even put on his Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
"Paddy, must we put on our best dresses when she comes -- our Sunday go-to-meeting frocks, you know?". From Wordnik.com. [Girls of the Forest] Reference
Mary-'Gusta noticed that she was not, as usual, garbed in gingham, but was arrayed in her best go-to-meeting gown. From Wordnik.com. [Mary-'Gusta] Reference
Around me were solemn, go-to-meeting faces, -- smileless and awful; and close at hand were the delving, toiling, mud-begrimed laborers. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
My thick go-to-meeting trousers that I left at Minsterham are gone up to my ancles; I must ask Wilmet if Clem hasn't left a pair that have got too seedy for Cambridge. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
Snow did come, and Leonidas, arrayed in his best "go-to-meeting style," geared up his sleigh, and what with bear skins and bells, fancying himself and appurtenances enough to charm the heart of any maid or matron in the back woods, set off to spark Grace Marley. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America] Reference
In the same way, Emperor William, although he gets his civilian clothes from some of the leading London tailors, invariably looks by no means to advantage in them, and suggests the French description of endimanche, that is to say, like a young man in his Sunday, go-to-meeting attire. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
Ibsen, it is allowable to think, may sometimes have dreamed of a pill, "with arsenic in it, Hilda, and digitalis, too, and strychnine and the best beetle-killer," which would decimate the admirable inhabitants of Grimstad, strewing the rocks with their bodies in their go-to-meeting coats and dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
"Brave old world she is after all," he said; "and right well made; and looks right well to-day in her go-to-meeting clothes, and plenty of room and chance for a brave man to earn his bread, if he will but go right on about his business, as the birds and the flowers do, instead of peaking and pining over what people think of him.". From Wordnik.com. [Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife] Reference
"go-to-meeting" clothes, which looked very much out of keeping with his staring sunburnt face, and were a bad fit. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers of Ice] Reference
We don't often tackle no Sunday go-to-meeting names on to it, but I reckon, maybe, it's the same you're a-lookin 'for. ". From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Folks] Reference
"Gammer, who went last year, says it was an awful go-to-meeting turn - out. From Wordnik.com. [The Master of the Shell] Reference
You and your nice Sunday go-to-meeting thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
A Sunday go-to-meeting suit. From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
His Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
I mean these are my Sunday go-to-meeting jeans! ". From Wordnik.com. Reference
405 go-to-meeting, 94 goul, 246 goulash, 199 go up Salt River, vp. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
Baptist), low-flung, codfish (to indicate opprobrium) and go-to-meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary] Reference
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