Fleeces

Despite equally cold winters in Germany and Holland, rhubarb there is flourishing because much of it is covered in tunnels or 'fleeces' to ensure a crop in time for spring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After that we bundle in fleeces for the day we read our books we don't say a word to each other ❋ Joe Sullivan (2011)

So while I had promised myself I wouldn’t buy anything other than a quart of milk we’d run out on Black Friday, I made the transition effortlessly into über-cyber-saleswoman, posting every one of the fleeces my 20-something sons had outgrown on the retail site, along with all those shirts they’d really never liked in the first place. ❋ Wendy Gordon (2011)

There the itinerant specialist sheared around 35 each hour in two-hourly stints as fleeces were rolled up for dispatch to the depot of the wool marketing board at Liskeard. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Not an odd variety of cheaply made fleeces, shirts and tacky High-Viz jackets. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

In recent months, Eisman has emerged as a strident critic of the for-profit college industry, asserting that it fleeces taxpayers and preys on students. ❋ Chris Kirkham (2011)

So while I had promised myself I wouldn’t buy anything other than a quart of milk we’d run out on Black Friday, I made the transition effortlessly into über-cyber-saleswoman, posting every one of the fleeces my 20-something sons had outgrown on the retail site, along with all those shirts they’d really never liked in the first place. ❋ Wendy Gordon (2011)

The cold New England winters caused them to grow prodigious fleeces. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

The tram police in Prague were like a secret police left over from an expired Communist tradition, dressed casually in jeans and fleeces, riding the trains silently like they were just another tourist, and then flashing a gold badge. ❋ Alison Espach (2011)

An older couple in matching navy blue fleeces, parents, turned to look at Janice, a girl all crazy for a guy, and whispered to each other. ❋ Alison Espach (2011)

OK, before purchasing the fleeces it would be a good idea to check their fitness for purpose. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Pat Robertson is just another Kentucky Fried minister who fleeces the people who can least afford to make large donations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However I'm currently cleansing my palette by finishing off my festival photography show (all will be revealed eventually) and by making a set of classic, plain pots and bowls in undyed British fleeces and yarns - Black Welsh, Blue Faced Leicester, North Ronaldsay and Jacob sheep, possibly some Wensleydale too. ❋ MadeleineS (2009)

Light fleeces of cloud drifted in the azure sky, but to the west heavy cloud banks threatened with rain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For years a source of high-quality textiles, following Sir Titus Salt's breakthrough in spinning alpaca weft with a cotton warp in Bradford in the late 1830s, the animals have long been valued for their fleeces. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They were something inaccessible, as inaccessible as the blue of the sky or the drifting cloud-fleeces. ❋ Unknown (2010)