So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the palace under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the cistern to Jeremiah.
And he said to Jeremiah, Put these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords.
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords.
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Had we done so at first, we had droven them home With clouts about their heads.
If I were mad I should forget my son, Or madly think a babe of clouts were he.
The two young men in breech clouts alternately flailed and hugged each other, the referee constantly danced between them crying, "Break!
The two young gentlemen in breech cloutsnodded nonchalantly.
When they put their clouts on they asked the women, "Where is the road to the house of Algaba of Dagála?
There will be a thin Cream swimming upon the milk of the Kettle after the Clouts are taken away, which is very sweet and pleasant to drink.
When you have laid a good Laire of Clouts in the dish, put upon it a little more fresh raw or boiled cream, and then fill it up with the rest of the Clouts.
If you put these clouts into a Churn with other cream, it will make very good butter, so as no sugar have been put with it.
If you should let your clouts lie longer upon the milk, then I have said, before you skim it off, the Milk underneath would grow soure, and spoil the cream above.
These clouts they put away on entering a house, as we should put away umbrellas, and wear only socks in-doors.
I had Ifugaos who ran about clad in clouts only, but were nevertheless quite capable of carrying a road or trail across the face of a precipice, doing all of the powder work.
Some of our soldiers were dressed in clouts before we reached civilization, and crawfishes on which our men could pounce along the edges of the river were out of luck!
In the same year with the Amoretti was published Colin Clouts Come Home Again, several additions having been made to the original version.
A full account of this visit and its important results is given us in Colin Clouts Come Home Again, which gives us at the same time a charming picture of the poet's life at Kilcolman.
Once more settled in his home, he wrote an account of his recent absence from it, which he entitled Colin Clouts Come Home Again.
In 1591, in his dedication of Colin Clouts Come Home Again, he entreats Raleigh, to 'with your good countenance protest against the malice of evil mouthes, which are always wide open to carpe at and misconstrue my simple meaning.
I shouldna wonder gin the folks did rabble ye and tear your white clouts ower your head, if ye gied them balderdash like that in the pulpit.
Of chintz, perpetuanas, printed callicoes, tapsiels and nicanees, are made clouts to wear round their middles.
The broad linen serves to adorn themselves and their dead men's sepulchers within, they also make clouts thereof.
They wore only leggings, shirts, breech clouts and a blanket.
They were clad in breech-clouts with their naked bodies painted in all the colors of the rainbow, put on in the most grotesque figures imaginable.
They cut off my snow-shoes and stripped off the clouts from my feet, which were as void of feeling as any frozen flesh could be.
The foam was grey where it beat on the islands at sea and in the no-light the great cliff of his father's castle wall was like grey clouts hung from the mists.
The old woman pulled out her clouts and said, "Eyah, eyah.
She was all in hodden grey, she carried a great basket of tumbled clouts upon her head, and so the tears poured from her red eyes that at the first she did not see him though she came into the road at his horse's forefoot.
The old Elizabeth had told her tale of sorcery alleged against himself at an intolerable length, dwelling on the nature of linen clouts here and there, and upon all that she had said to the Lady Rohtraut when she lay in the swoon.
When they unbound the rope, as they led them all in, the rags and clouts dropped off with it.
Soon after in came my companion with his nose beaten almost flat to his face, all his head wrapped up in clouts very bloody and dirty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
