What is "cloaths"

Usage examples of "cloaths".

Instead of returning any answer to this sage advice, Jones was entirely attentive to what had happened to the boy, who received no other than what had before befallen Partridge, and which his cloaths very easily bore, as they had been for many years inured to the like.

Those I shall be easily able to carry for you, and the rest of your cloaths will remain very safe locked up in my house.

The only danger, she said, lay in the fellow she had formerly mentioned, who, though a beggar and a vagabond, had, by some means or other, she knew not what, procured himself tolerable cloaths, and past for a gentleman.

You may see it amongst the best pollitiks, that a comonwele is readier to ebe then to flow, when once fine houses and gay cloaths come up.

I imagine them to have been places only of occasional use, in which the Islander, upon a sudden alarm, hid his utensils, or his cloaths, and perhaps sometimes his wife and children.

But as for your ladyship, I am heartily sorry your ladyship hath had a misfortune, and if your ladyship will do me the honour to wear my cloaths till you can get some of your ladyship's own, to be certain the best I have is at your ladyship's service.

Jones came to her relief at that very instant when her strength failed and she was totally overpowered, and delivered her from the ruffian's hands, with no other loss than that of her cloaths, which were torn from her back, and of the diamond ring, which during the contention either dropped from her finger, or was wrenched from it by Northerton.

I shall be content to stay with good will, having but ye cloaths on my back.