He had on evening trousers, pumps, black cottonsocks with just enough silk woven in to give them the shabby, shamed air of having been caught in a snobbish pretense at being silk.
Among other things she had taught Louie to wipe his feet before coming in, to respect and help women, and to change his socks often.
The socks and shirts were steaming above the huge stove; the smoke and stench for a moment were sickening, but Ridgeley pushed them just inside the door.
Above it hung scores of ragged gray and red socks and Mackinac boots and jackets which had been washed by the men themselves.
In each bunk, hanging to a peg, was the poor little imitation-leather hand-bag which contained the whole wardrobe of each man, exclusive of the tattered socks and shirts hanging over the stove.
To which the socks and things give evidence," said Field, promptly, pointing toward the huge stove which sat like a rusty-red cheese in the centre of the room.
I am sending you some cigarettes with my uncle's best wishes and a pair of socks with mine.
Its contents were a pair of woollen socks and a pair of stockings of the same material.
Your clean flannels (one always wears heavy flannel underclothes and heavy woolen socks in this climate) are laid out and your clothes for the day's march are ready for you.
You can't be six feet two in your socks and have the airs and graces of Prince Charming, without being conspicuous even amongst a crowd of first-class passengers on a fifty-thousand-ton liner.
Here are some socks I bought for you at a counter where no English was spoken.
It was she to whom he applied in any domestic emergency--she mended his socks and kept his handkerchiefs a good colour, sewed on his buttons, and inculcated a policy of thrift towards the end of the quarter when funds were getting low.
I am sorry to have to end my yarn on this prosaic note, but that is the way of things in an existence where the necessity to blow your nose or change your socks breaks in on the most exalted moments.
I wanted to lend him a pair, but he evidently thought that the feeling of dry socks would be too great a contrast to his wet body, for he positively refused my nice warm ones.
Their luggage was limited to changes of socks and shirts and rugs, but at the last moment they managed to get permission to take a little box of food also.
His socks followed, and then he rolled up his trousers to his knees, and waded into the stream.
That his silk socks were almost worn out; that his pumps were down at the heel?
Nothing escaped him; even the darns in the socks appeared worthy of his interest.
At the frontier we were met by guards on horseback and on foot, policemen, detectives and other grafters, who took our passports and money, and one fellow made me exchange mysocks with him.
If you've done all your own mending, there's a heap ofsocks to be looked over.
It certainly looked so as it bent over the pile of big sockshalf an hour later, and brightened with each that was laid aside.
Now and then she could see Margaret, her ankles incased in rough woollen socks showing above the tops of the Clown's brogans.
Why should Mr. Barrison be about to bathe in socks and neckties?
He lighted his pipe and smoked a few whiffs and added: 'Knit seventy pair o' socks fer my regiment this fall.
I don't like to have socks er luther on when I wade out into that pond.
Silver match boxes and cigarette holders would not be very useful, nor would silk socks with initials embroidered on them be much better.
I here underwent, for the second time, the catechizing process, which being again carefully booked, I was invited in the most dulcet tones to unrobe to the extent of everything except my socks and trousers.
I was then requested to get on the machine, and the astounding fact recorded that a mountain of humanity in his shirt and socks weighed 19 stone 13 lbs.
He first took our height with our socks on, and then without them--except in the case of those who possessed no such garment, and who formed the majority.
Socks form no part of the regulation outfit; the men usually replace them by bits of rag, which are nicknamed "Russian socks.
Why the deuce don't you take off your socks, socks aren't regulation," he angrily retorted.
But, Sergeant," I asked, "how can I be taller without my socksthan with them on?
Mrs. Noah was seated by the table knitting a pair of socksfor the captain, and the three boys were writing in their copy books.
I'll have to get some woolen socks and a pair of felt shoes or my toes will be frostbitten!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "socks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
