"Cast-off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hath a sense of humor and doth wish to show us that his coronation hath so increased his importance that his cast-off garments have perforce won new ...
— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson
... come to the saddest part of our subject, the consideration of the dead body, so dear, yet so soon to leave us; so familiar, yet so far away—the cast-off dress, the beloved clay. Dust ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... with regard to clothes—it is doubtful if anything new is bought, in many families, from year's end to year's end. At "rummage sales," for a few pence, the women are now able to pick up surprising bargains in cast-off garments, which they adapt as best they can for their own or their children's wear. Economies like this, however, still hardly suffice to explain how the scanty resources are really spread out. Apart from a few cases of palpable ...
— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
... these happenings, had just finished exercising his men on the smooth green in front of the Castle of Crichton, and had dismissed them, when a gaberlunzie or privileged beggar, a long lank rascal with a mat of tangled hair, and clad in a cast-off leathern suit which erstwhile some knight had worn under his mail, leaped suddenly from the shelter of a hedge. Instinctively Sholto laid his hand on ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... skill in dodging. Rabbits mate in March and April, the usual litter of three or four being born about a month later. The nest is usually on the ground in some sheltered place under brushwood that forms a good protection, and the nest is lined with leaves, grass, or their own cast-off fur. ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
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