clothless

Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting: —

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

A saucepan of baked beans stood in the middle of the clothless table.

A Guilty Thing Surprised Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1970

Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

He waved his hand comprehensively, indicating the decayed pink-and-purple wall-paper, the ragged oil-cloth on the floor, the dingy window with its dingier outlook, the rickety deal wash-stand with the paint peeling off, a horrible clothless tray on a horrible splotchy chest of drawers, containing the horrible scraggy remains of a meal.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

You know how comfy those big beds are, you sit at the long clothless table in the brown dining-room.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

Yet as he prowled in quest of that call, his senses, stultified only by his desire, would note keenly all that wounded or shamed them; his eyes, a ring of porter froth on a clothless table or a photograph of two soldiers standing to attention or a gaudy playbill; his ears, the drawling jargon of greeting:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

The remains of his breakfast were on the clothless, homemade table.

The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906

Crude tallow dips in the necks of cracked jugs and bottles spangled a dark clothless table, a slanting heap of blazing logs filled the wide rock-and-mud chimney, and a bonfire of pine knots at the "wash-place" near the door outside threw a red light far down the road which led past a row of cabins to the residence of

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

Two of his clothless seniors came in, as I sketched, from the deep swell outside the surf, through the breakers slanting-wise.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900