outwear
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It was a carnival of outwear that could only be matched by typing “Rococo” into the Amazon search bar.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
The luxury outwear maker will hold an investor presentation on Thursday, its first since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the acquisition of streetwear brand Stone Island in 2020.
From Reuters ● May 4, 2022
Meanwhile, men’s pants and shorts rose 11.2 percent from a year ago, while suits, sport coats and outwear prices climbed 9.3 percent.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines.
From Fox News ● Jun. 14, 2019
If you must have a string of loafers to prove that your attractions outwear anno domini, I must accept Hartley, and other Hartleys, so long as you continue to play the same game.
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie
"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
If they who hate the trespass most, Yet, when all other love is lost, Love the poor sinner, marvel not; Christ's mark outwears the rankest blot.
From The Christian Year by John Keble
It outwears the protests and appeals of total generations of unhelped, indignant hearts.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be saved evermore.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Forgive me, mother, if my whims outwore Your patient heart.
From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn
They call the days the Golden Days that 'neath that king outwore, Amid such happiness of peace o'er men-folk did he reign.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
How the dream outwore the night and strengthened as morning broke gray and cold, and quiet with the stillness of the desert, we need not follow.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
Instead he falls back on older ones, long outworn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2017
Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Lo! on pinions bright, The Love-god comes, a yellow cincture bearing, To bind thee ever to thy dear delight, In nuptial knot, all other knots outwearing.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
I had asked her to go home with me, and she had refused because she is so afraid of outwearing her welcome.
From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
That gave father-strength for bearing Famine-need and sword, Honor death itself outwearing, And it gave accord.
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
But neither at the candle-lighted breakfast, nor later, when Ballard asked him if he were fit for a leisurely ride to the southern watershed for the day's outwearing, did he speak of young Carson's desertion.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
