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    1. of them Tom’s cast-offs, hung around in the background at the odd dance at the


    2. A couple of happy shoppers mistake him for a tramp in someone's cast-offs, a missing person in a dead man's suit


    3. It was one of SAP COIN favourite ways of expanding a more practical fatherly talk to wayward constables who carried cast-off ones around for punishment


    4. There were stories of masters who didn’t beat you, hurt you, slap you, starve you, provide you with cast-off clothes, forget about your teeth, or your shoes, or your health, or work you sixteen hours a day, and expect you to sleep in a shed or hut


    5. is cast-off, then the view will be very similar to that from everyday con-


    6. The ladies of the Church have cast-off clothing of every kind


    7. Why did his laundry basket contain a complete set of cast-offs, like shirt, singlet, socks, underpants?”


    8. Their homes were squalid, their children half-starved and raggedly clothed in grotesque garments hastily fashioned out of the cast-off clothes of charitable neighbours


    9. That was why they sat there in their rags and ate their coarse food, and cracked their coarser jokes, and drank the dreadful tea, and were content! So long as they had Plenty of Work and plenty of - Something - to eat, and somebody else's cast-off clothes to wear, they were content! And they were proud of it


    10. If you see a workman wearing a really good suit of clothes you may safely conclude that he is either leading an unnatural life - that is, he is not married - or that he has obtained it from a tallyman on the hire system and has not yet paid for it - or that it is someone else's cast-off suit that he has bought second-hand or had given to him by some charitable person

    11. Elsie and Charley Linden came first, the girl in a pretty blue frock trimmed with white lace, and Charley resplendent in a new suit, which, like his sister's dress, had been made out of somebody's cast-off clothes that had been given to their mother by a visiting lady


    12. He wrote a letter to the Weekly Chloroform appealing for cast-off boots for poor children


    13. The society also received large quantities of cast-off clothing and boots, and tickets of admission to hospitals, convalescent homes and dispensaries from subscribers to those institutions, or from people like Rushton & Co


    14. Although the people who got the grocery and coal orders, the `Nourishment', and the cast-off clothes and boots, were very glad to have them, yet these things did far more harm than good


    15. They continued to distribute the rotten cast-off clothing and boots, and the nourishment tickets


    16. Mr Bosher talked of reopening the Labour Yard; the secretary of the OBS appealed for more money and cast-off clothing and boots - the funds of the Society had been depleted by the payment of his quarter's salary


    17. Outside the hail in which the meeting was being held a large crowd of poverty-stricken Liberal working men, many of them wearing broken boots and other men's cast-off clothing, was waiting to hear the report of the slave-drivers' deputation, and as soon as Sweater had consented to be nominated, Didlum rushed and opened the window overlooking the street and shouted the good news down to the crowd, which joined in the cheering


    18. Toil-worn women, most of them dressed in other women's shabby cast-off clothing - weary, tired-looking mothers who fed their children for the most part on adulterated tea, tinned skimmed milk and bread and margarine, grew furious as they thought of the wicked Socialists who were trying to bring Ruin upon them


    19. He bought a new second-hand pair of black trousers at a cast-off clothing shop in honour of the occasion, and discarded his own low-crowned silk hat - which was getting rather shabby - in favour of Hunter's tall one, which he found in the office and annexed without hesitation or scruple


    20. The remainder of the Brothers consisted of half-starved, pale-faced working men and women, most of them dressed in other people's cast-off clothing, and with broken, patched-up, leaky boots on their feet

    21. He was fed at the family table, he slept on the kitchen floor, and he wore Elfric’s cast-off clothes, but he got no wages


    22. The Beau that strutted with his Snuff-Box and Sword, the Footman that ap’d the Beau’s Fine Manners and wore his cast-off Clothes, the proud Physician all in black, the Officer of the Guard in his Finery, the Linen Draper that mimickt the Officer’s Fine Manners in his turn, e’en the lowly Nightmen and Polemen whose assorted Stinks call’d forth Memories of the Privies they clean’d—all of ’em could strut imperiously above the best-hearted, most learned Lady in the Land


    23. As she had no longer any clothes, they dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thenardier brats; that is to say, in rags


    24. Cosette turned towards the wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging


    25. Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress


    26. Sam Malloy: In chapter 8 of Cannery Row, the Malloys take up residence in this cast-off cannery boiler


    27. They were anxious, therefore, to meet with a dealer in cast-off clothes, and this was one of Elizabeth's callings


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