clothes-peg

Its startling range of imagery includes a sketch of the functions of the nervous system, a builder's crane, a drab interior with clothes-peg and clock, and a gloriously expansive outdoors.

Great Regulars: Although he was never a thorough-going Imagist, Rus Bowden 2009

Its startling range of imagery includes a sketch of the functions of the nervous system, a builder's crane, a drab interior with clothes-peg and clock, and a gloriously expansive outdoors.

Archive 2009-12-01 Rus Bowden 2009

The little clothes-peg angel with her shimmering wrapping-paper wings and the hand-drawn ‘best teacher’ card still bring tears to my eyes as I think about those children, long since grown.

playground love 2006

Although I didn't realise it then, the only games I played were concerned with warfare, whether it was under the bed in my imaginary cave or on the table with clothes-peg troops.

Surviving With Wolves Defonseca, Misha 2005

The furniture had been greatly disordered — perhaps by some inquisitive rat — but a coat upon a clothes-peg on the door, a razor and some dirty scraps of paper, and a piece of soap that had hardened through years of disuse into a horny cube, were redolent of

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

He fished a clothes-peg out of his pocket and looked at it solemnly.

The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

His scrap of relationship throws a glimmer of possession around the one, endowing with inherent right every act of his ministry; while his "cloth" invests the other with a halo of sanctity and Platonic freedom that disarms gossip of the usual clothes-peg whereon it hangs its scandal.

She and I, Volume 1

I tied it up in two splints cut out of a clothes-peg in a manner which I stated to be the most popular at the Hôtel Dieu at Paris; and the old girl was so pleased that she has asked me to keep Christmas-day at her house, where she burns the Yule log, makes a bowl of wassail, and all manner of games.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Various

"There is a clothes-peg sticking into the back of my head," remarked Mr. Travers.

Captains All and Others 1903

Go fer carrots an 'cabbages, specially carrots,' whispered the commandant, whose experience of goats was large and varied, and taught him that the average nanny or billy would desert home and kindred and go through fire and water in pursuit of a succulent young carrot not larger than a clothes-peg.

The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898