Clad in the pleasant tweeds of civilisation, part hidden under a close-buttoned pea-jacket, he bulked enormously.
Why, now I'm sitting around in dandy tweeds in the boss chair of a swell office, with a crazy notion back of my head I'm here to beat the game with the greatest groundwood mill in the world, and ten million dollars capital behind me.
As we came out of the grounds, we were accosted by an old man with a flowing white beard, who suggested that we visit his tweed depot, just across the street, and see for ourselves what Donegal tweeds really were.
And his dusty tweeds and traveling cap was no calling costume.
V Langham, clad in tweeds from head to foot, sat on the edge of his bed.
A ray of light from the roadway above shone on them as they passed, and I noticed that while the woman wore an ordinary dark cloth coat, the man was in tweeds and a golf cap.
I sat reading by the fire and dozed till just past two o'clock, when he returned dressed in unfamiliar clothes: a rough suit of tweeds in which he presented the appearance of a respectable artisan.
That New York tailor has turned you out wonderfully, but even those very square English tweeds do not entirely disguise the French cavalier.
He had on the match to these gray tweeds and was fitted out in lavender from the skin out.
On one occasion, too, he appeared in the trousers of a lounge-suit of tweeds instead of his dress trousers, and with tan boots.
Feeling instinctively that Cousin Egbert would not now be dressing for dinner, I omitted evening clothes from my box, including only a morning-suit and one of form-fitting tweeds which I fancied would do me well enough.
Yet I stood aghast, for with the lounge-suit of tweeds I had selected the day before he had worn his top-hat!
You might have told me where I'm to find my brown tweeds and the body linen.
We had a ghastly glimpse of each other before the match went out, and I saw he was in tweeds and knickers, and had one of Daphne's sandwiches in his left hand.
The man intweeds on the floor raised himself into a sitting position and listened, his hands clasped about his knees.
Whether the bicycle or the tourist woretweeds and knickers was not entirely clear.
Tweeds are beginning to come into use amongst the upper middle, as they long have in the lower middle and lower classes.
In a dusty place like this it is impossible to keep black clothes clean, and tweeds give far the best wear and appearance of any stuff.
They card and dye and spin the wool, they knit the Gairloch hose, and they prepare the various coloured worsteds which the weaver converts into tweeds of different patterns.
Some of the tweeds are worn in the parish, and some are sold to strangers.
Daunt seized this excuse, plunged ferociously into tweeds and an hour afterward found himself in a railway carriage thudding gloomily toward the lower bay.
What he means," explained the young man in tweeds helpfully, "is that I don't know the steps.
She had a feeling that he would look better in tweeds in a field than in evening dress in a theatre.
The country gentleman may wear a suit of tweeds for ten years, till the leather gun-patch on the shoulder threatens to pervade the whole man, back and front.
Then a man in tweeds entered one of the fields by the gate.
Men in tweeds stood motionless on the edge of the covert, and suddenly moved.
Having encased himself in some serviceable tweeds and a blue guernsey, he rolled me in his coat ere beginning to demolish the homeward mile--an infinitesimal bagatelle to such a magnificent pair of arms.
Probably he went to ascertain who he really was, for I was left sitting alone until a splendidly muscular figure in a fashionable pattern of tweeds halted opposite the vehicle holding my driver.
He was daintily booted and gloved, and wore morning tweeds of perfect cut; a sprig of violets was thrust in his button-hole.
He dressed himself with unusual care and discrimination, selecting a suit of dark brown tweeds that matched his complexion, and a scarf with a good bit of red in it.
Mr. Stonor's presence reduced poor old Jermyn to a mere shabby wisp of a man, and made the talkative stranger in tweeds on the hearthrug look absurdly boyish.
But for a few men in frock-coats and tweeds it would have been almost undistinguishable from the recognised resorts of fashion.
After a second's hesitation the two men in tweeds followed her in.
We didn't bring along a second suit of tweeds for the simple reason that we mean to do some pretty rough tramping with our packs on our backs, and then a fellow is likely to grumble at any unnecessary pound of weight he carries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tweeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
