Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting: — ❋ Unknown (2003)
A saucepan of baked beans stood in the middle of the clothless table. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1970)
Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting: ❋ Joyce, James, 1882-1941 (1922)
He waved his hand comprehensively, indicating the decayed pink-and-purple wall-paper, the ragged oil-cloth on the floor, the dingy window with its dingier outlook, the rickety deal wash-stand with the paint peeling off, a horrible clothless tray on a horrible splotchy chest of drawers, containing the horrible scraggy remains of a meal. ❋ Unknown (1914)
You know how comfy those big beds are, you sit at the long clothless table in the brown dining-room. ❋ Stella Benson (1912)
The remains of his breakfast were on the clothless, homemade table. ❋ Arthur Preston Hankins (1906)
Crude tallow dips in the necks of cracked jugs and bottles spangled a dark clothless table, a slanting heap of blazing logs filled the wide rock-and-mud chimney, and a bonfire of pine knots at the "wash-place" near the door outside threw a red light far down the road which led past a row of cabins to the residence of ❋ Unknown (1900)
Two of his clothless seniors came in, as I sketched, from the deep swell outside the surf, through the breakers slanting-wise. ❋ Unknown (1900)
"Supper is here," he said, and stood up to look at the table -- the polished clothless top laid ready with a couple of wooden plates and knives, a pewter tankard, salt-cellar and bread. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
These things ready, he took them to the big, empty dining-room, resting the smoking frying-pan on an inverted plate on the clothless table. ❋ Unknown (1888)
Pina was not so sure about the piety of the Bravi and their servant, and as she nibbled her last bit of bread, she looked thoughtfully across the clothless deal table at the hunchback's trusting and spiritual face. ❋ Unknown (1881)
They were right, for he threw down his spoon on the clothless board and said suddenly: ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
This left many people clothless and with well ... quite interesting tasks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even town Mayor S Raghuramireddy is homeless, clothless and foodless. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To the right were the complete tea-ers with everything heart could desire, then a small group of three young men in remarkable green and violet and pale-blue shirts, and two girls in mauve and yellow blouses with common teas and gooseberry jam at the green clothless table, then on the grass down by the pollard willow a small family of hot water-ers with a hamper, a little troubled by wasps in their jam from the nest in the tree and all in mourning, but happy otherwise, and on the lawn to the right ❋ Unknown (2003)
a round clothless table stood two plates, one with a piece of bread and butter remaining, and two cups and saucers. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
a dark corner; an oval buhl-table set in tawdry ormolu, islanded in the centre of a poor but gaudy Scotch carpet; and but one other table of dull walnut-wood, standing clothless before a sofa to match the chairs; the eternal ormolu clock flanked by the two eternal ormolu candelabra on the dreary mantelpiece. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
