"Oilskin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my mascot," he said, drawing from a pocket a small envelope of semi-transparent oilskin. "Here it is. Now that ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... began to suffer more acutely from thirst, and drawing out a sailors' oilskin pouch, one of the few possessions he had been allowed by the police to retain, he took from it a piece of tobacco which he began to chew. At the same time he eyed the rest of the contents—half a ship's biscuit, some matches ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... that made us shake? When a cow or a sheep in the field at the side touched against the fence we trembled still more. There were footsteps on the road. Bob was returning. My fate had been decided. A rough-looking sailor wearing a sou'wester and an oilskin ...
— Nobody's Boy - Sans Famille • Hector Malot
... Irving left that Hall, he left sitting in an old oak chair, in a small parlour of the Boar's Head, a little man with a red nose, and an oilskin hat. When I came away he was sitting there still!—not a man LIKE him, but the same man—with the nose of immortal redness and the hat of an undying glaze! Crayon, while there, was on terms of intimacy with a certain radical fellow, who used to go about, with a hatful of newspapers, wofully out ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... steamers this weather,' said Bell. His beard and whiskers were frozen to his oilskin, an' the spray was white on the weather side of him. ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
|
