Word: clad
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WOULDST like to know, O gentle reader, of the pleasures and pains of Hare and Hounds? then listen to the mournful story of Ferdinand Van Rasselas. When Ferdy appeared in front of Matthews, his six feet two of skin and bones clad in a nice new flannel shirt and in new brown knickerbockers and stockings to match, he created quite a sensation. His clean things, in comparison with the rough boating jerseys and dirty football trousers, made him conspicuous. In fact, Ferdy wished he were not quite so conspicuous, for it was n't pleasant to hear whispered remarks about...
...from the stare of the world by the rough-clad sentinel mountain...
NIGHT.DARK-HAIRED am I, - all clad in sable mist...
...might venture an opinion; he should have been all blue glass. Patriotic emblems are excellent in their proper place, but they should not be mingled with the tracery of a mediaeval architecture. Would it not have been better if the whole window had been a Goddess of Liberty, lightly clad in the star-spangled banner...
...HUGE, half-clad figure was seen looming up a few nights ago in one of the windows of a college building not far from Holyoke Street. Much discussion arose among the bystanders whether a camel or weasel or human being. Subsequent investigations found it to be a modest and unassuming member of one of the upper classes...