Example Sentences

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It was Mr Hazlit, whose bloodless countenance and shrunken condition had become more apparent than ever after he had been enabled to reclothe himself in the garments of civilisation.

From Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters by Pearson, Francis B.

He said he did not keep two suits of the same kind in stock, but manufactured a second when it was needed to reclothe the dummy.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark

The winter had been so mild that the river had not been frozen, "the trees also began to reclothe themselves with leaves, and the fields to be enameled with flowers."

From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Champlain, Samuel de

Without altering at all the structure of the Evening Prayer, it would be perfectly possible so to refill or reclothe that formulary as to give it the one thing needful which now it lacks—freshness.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

I afterwards learned that they had had to persuade Mrs. Spain to reclothe herself in the pink foulard, because she had decided that they were not coming and had gone back to work.

From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.