On to Kaplan Brothers work-clothes store; my first time there. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, My Love!] Reference
So the work-clothes were not forgotten when my trunk was packed. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888] Reference
At the bar, for example, there were mainly men in blue work-clothes or old men from the surrounding district who came in for their glass of red wine. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Killer]
The whole idea of summer reading is to shed your literary work-clothes, to lighten your usual reading load, to go on vacation from a certain kind of book. From Wordnik.com. [Summer reading] Reference
Just this morning my man came downstairs in the work-clothes I pressed for him the night before talking about why he love me, why he can't get enough of me. From Wordnik.com. [t Enough] Reference
The Grapes of Wrath humanized the plight of the Okies, who lost everything in a natural disaster, the drought and wind storms that turned the wheat farms of Oklahoma -- where my grandparents would later start and fold a work-clothes business -- into The Dust Bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Doug Levitt: The Unblogged and Unpolled: A View by Greyhound] Reference
I had not for a moment supposed that anything in my attire of simple decorous work-clothes could awaken pity. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
On the step next to the top one, some one was waiting -- a person dressed in work-clothes, with big, soiled hands, and an unshaven face. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
In his work-clothes and wooden sabots he watched the strangers come and dig his field, now renamed the Champ des Morts or Field of the Dead, from which in the end some 5,000 curious artefacts emerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
His first thought was his boots -- expecting to find them under his stretcher, and himself in flannels; but he had them still on, and also his work-clothes, humanity to the sick in the first stages not being in the Colmoor code. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] Reference
"If I called her Sara she would scream at me … Whenever I saw her I had to tell her how clever and pretty she was … She phoned me at home at two in the morning to complain about a cushion cover … She insisted I bring four sets of work-clothes: for doing the laundry, for cleaning the loos, for cleaning other rooms and for working in the kitchen.". From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
If I called her Sara she would scream at me … Whenever I saw her I had to tell her how clever and pretty she was … She phoned me at home at two in the morning to complain about a cushion cover … She insisted I bring four sets of work-clothes: for doing the laundry, for cleaning the loos, for cleaning other rooms and for working in the kitchen. ". From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
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