"Half-clothed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in sight unless I can have more men. So long as I can burrow underground my half-clothed and half-starved soldiers will hold Grant at bay. I may hold him until next spring. Not longer. The North is using negro troops. They have enrolled nearly two hundred thousand. Their man power counts. We can arm our negroes ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon
... that the door opened, and through it, breathless, white with terror, half-clothed, appeared none other ...
— Morning Star • H. Rider Haggard
... In one room he found a lamp burning on a dresser and two children asleep. He dragged them from bed and carried them to the stairway. From below came the surge and snap of flames. He held his breath and descended the stairs. A crowd of half-clothed workmen had gathered. Among them he saw ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... to me now—NOW! But at that time I would soak my pillow at night with tears of mortification, and tear at my blanket in my rage and fury. Oh, how I longed at that time to be turned out—ME, eighteen years old, poor, half-clothed, turned out into the street, quite alone, without lodging, without work, without a crust of bread, without relations, without a single acquaintance, in some large town—hungry, beaten (if you like), but in good health—and THEN I ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... dishevelled, half-clothed men of three worlds. The changing, lightening gravity on the incline caught them. Dr. Frank bounded up to the rail under the impetus of his step: caught and held himself, drew himself back. The line swayed. In the dim, blue-lit ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various |
