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. ❋ Michelle McEwen (2010)
He was taller and thinner than the local Mayans, and was dressed in dun work-clothes and a frayed canvas belt that might have been military in origin and his boots were half-unlaced in a way that somehow seemed filthy and debauched. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On to Kaplan Brothers work-clothes store; my first time there. ❋ Unknown (2005)
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. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1969)
So the work-clothes were not forgotten when my trunk was packed. ❋ Various (N/A)
"We must keep on our work-clothes, for our life is not done; but your clothes are for holiday, because your tasks are over," said the branches. ❋ Elizabeth [Compiler] Heber (N/A)
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. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
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. ❋ Unknown (1906)
I had not for a moment supposed that anything in my attire of simple decorous work-clothes could awaken pity. ❋ John Van Vorst (1900)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"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." ❋ Unknown (2010)
But she couldn’t blame him for not wanting to go to the hospital in his work-clothes and smelling of perspiration. ❋ Janet Dailey (1990)
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. " ❋ Unknown (2010)
