Example Sentences

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I trudged through the next day barefoot, cloakless, and thinking grim thoughts about my life.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

She also was cloakless, with magnificent bare arms and shoulders gleaming white above the rippling waves of yellow chiffon.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

The king then took a very good cloak off his shoulders and gave it to Kjartan, saying he should not go back cloakless to his companions.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Press, Muriel A.C.

Lettice held the door open, and she rushed out into the drizzling rain, hatless, cloakless, as she was, forgetting everything but that awful suggestion that she might never see Rex again.

From Sisters Three by Lloyd, Stanley

Henry III., indeed, had taken horse at the Tuileries, and, attended by his principal councillors, unbooted and cloakless, had issued from the New gate, and set out on the road to St. Cloud.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert