As for clothes, parbleu! there is not much money to be saved in clothes, for the fact is, as a man advances in life--as he becomes an Ancient Briton (mark the pleasantry)--he goes without clothes. When my tailor proposes something in the way of a change of raiment, I laugh in his face. My blue coat and brass buttons will last these ten years. It is seedy? What then? I don't want to charm anybody in particular. You say that my clothes are shabby?英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
HUSBANDMAN. Talk not of goose nor capon, give me good beef or bacon, And good bread and cheese, now at hand; With pudding, brawn, and souse, all in a farmer's house, That is living for the husbandman. SERVINGMAN. Why the clothing that we wear is delicate and rare, With our coat, lace, buckles, and band; Our shirts are white as milk, and our stockings they are silk, That is clothing for a servingman. HUSBANDMAN. But I value not a hair your delicate fine wear, Such as gold is laced upon; Give me a good grey coat, and in my purse a groat, That is clothing for the husbandman. SERVINGMAN. Kind sir!英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
Jack rode home to Solong every night. I was staying at a pub
some distance out of town, between Solong and Haviland. There were three or four wet days, and we didn't get on with the work. I fought shy of Mary till one day she was hanging out clothes
and the line broke. It was the old-style sixpenny clothes-line. The clothes were all down, but it was clean grass, so it didn't matter much. I looked at Jack.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
"Rob him when you have dropped him. Take his money and his jewelry. I want to have the killing of him attributed to robbery as the motive. Make sure before you leave him that he is dead. Then go to the malt-house. There is no fear of your being seen; all the people will be indoors, keeping Christmas-eve. You will find a change of clothes hidden in the malt-house, and an old caldron full of quicklime. Destroy the clothes you have got on, and dress yourself in the other clothes that you find.英文原著 · 《Miss or Mrs》
``I mean your clothes,'' explained he. ``They were unusual for this part of the world. And when anyone wears unusual clothes, they act as a disguise. Everyone neglects the person to center on the clothes.''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
Garred me gang: made me go; Gang maiden: remain unmarried. Gest: deed, adventure. Gif: if. Glede: live-coal. Glent: passed suddenly, flashed. Goodman: the master of the "good" or little property of house and field. There is the same sense of "good" in the first use of "goodwife," or "goody." Gowk: cuckoo. Grain, cloth in: cloth of special quality with a fast purple dye.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
It happened -- I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing, It happened -- I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing,演讲 · 《My year of living biblically ~ A.J. Jacobs》