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Usage examples of castoff.

A player comes on under the shadow, made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice.

The castoff glow of the sun, still hidden below the horizon, tinted the edges with a golden pink that gradually deepened to violet.

As he watched, they roughly competed for castoff hunks of raw boar fat and bones.

She had trailed along after him countless times, dressed in his castoffs, without anyone seeming to notice.

Since I was dressed in castoffs from the two privileged wives, and rarely given a moment of time by my husband, they looked on me with pity.

Sighing, Stef dropped his robe among the other castoffs on the floor and plowed into a musty closet, looking for something clean.

Now they wore the most outlandish collection of castoffs and borrowed finery he had seen.

They splashed through a foul pool and out onto a narrow street covered witfi decaying garbage, castoffs, and odd hunks of refuse, as softly yielding and treacherous as the floor of a rain forest.

Most of their ilk had to make do with, at best, castoffs and obsolete units of the Confederacy Navy.

They have to put up with the sort of castoffs who are almost ready to fall in love with lady physicists, embryologists, and embalmers.

The tunic must have given me a castoff glory, the shimmer of a fallen angel.

The handsome vampire managed to wear my castoff clothes and make them look like some kind of fashion statement.

The old groom sidled away warily, like a huge, hairy crab clad in an assortment of rags and castoffs.

His tangled hair was white, and his clothing was mismatched, appearing to consist mostly of castoffs he had found beside this trail or that.

But he sounded troubled, and his eyes seemed drawn to the orange shag rug that didn't fit with the room and was probably somebody's castoff.