Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the lowroundkindfavoured by huntingmen, and with it a blackduffle-coatlined with white.
After the secondlunch, with a littlemore to drink, he helped her into her coatmorezealously, smoothing the materialdownover one should bladeas if the cloth had suddenlythrown up a ruckle.
The crowdhad torun away from the burningstructure with only the clothes on their backs.
...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphurprecipitatingsubstances, the surplusrubberadhering to the hidebeing then slickered off and finished with a clothdipped in a rubbersolvent.
用于句首
cloth that takesdyewell ; paper that takesink ; the leather that takes a certainkind ofpolish
用于句尾
The silence of our meal was alonebroken by the dullclattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the briskwaiter to bringwine and draw the cloth.
At the springsale, everyonezeroedin on the bargainclothes.
True, he'sa littleyoung for full curmudgeonhood, but he's been workingtirelesslyat it for years, and he takes a gadfly's delight inpointing out that this or that emperor has no clothes.