"Sweater" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the discovery of the letter's outline under his sweater, and he extracted it by way of the neck of that ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... meetin' that afternoon, where a lot of the ladies was swappin' tales of woe about their kitchen expense accounts. Some of 'em had been keepin' track of prices in the city markets and was able to shoot the deadly parallel at Belcher. Anyway, they ditched the sweater-knittin' and bandage-rollin' for the time bein', and proceeded to organize the Woman's Economic League ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
... of sticking to an idea, and he began to persuade himself that Saserkopee was a haven of refuge. Whenever they seemed to be having a peaceful discussion of Lulu Hartwig's canary-yellow sweater, they were hearing her voice, wondering if they could tolerate its twangy comments the ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... out of her sweater. But Eleanor caught at her skirts from behind. "Sit down, Phil. Here comes that wretched Madge, swimming toward us from over there. ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... warmed to his work he stopped to draw off the heavy sweater that he wore over his woollen shirt, and made as if to throw it in the bow of the dory. "But no," he said, "it will get wet there. You put it on you, Simon, and keep it dry for me." He was a full size bigger than me in every way, and I put it on, over my cardigan jacket and under my oil jacket, and ...
— The Trawler • James Brendan Connolly
... right; you're a handy little guy with machinery," I reminded him. "Hop in now and break forth. Don't let the public think that you're afraid to blow a Bubble through the streets of your native town. The rubber sweater buttoned to the chin and the Dutch awning over the forehead for yours, and ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... departed without having definitely broken the negotiations. His whole week was befogged by doubt, his work became uncertain, his chalk marks lacked their usual decision, and he did not always cut his coat according to his cloth. His aberrations became so marked that pretty Rose Green, the sweater's eldest daughter, who managed a machine in the same room, divined, with all a woman's intuition, that ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... it. I love the outdoors. Somebody find me a sweater and a rug, and I'll be as happy ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... from?" Lora Hunt asked. She was pretty, small and dark, in her yellow sweater and ...
— The Skull • Philip K. Dick
... moment he looked somewhat stupidly upon the wreck. Had it been a horse or a steer he would have known the procedure, but this experience was new to his life. Besides, there were strangers here. He had no fear of strangers when they wore schaps and coloured handkerchiefs, but a girl in a brown sweater and an oldish man with a white collar were creatures to be approached with caution. The oldish man was lying on the ground, with a leg pinned under the car, and Brown Sweater raised his head against her knee and pressed his cheeks with small white fingers and looked ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... some degree by Pearl's expected arrival. "Don't be wearin' yer sweater now, Tommy man, I'm feart the red strip'll run in it when its washed; save it clean till ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung |
