maud

Example Sentences

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She put a new candle in her lantern; she changed her shawl for a maud, and leaving the door on latch, she sallied out.

From Half a Life-Time Ago by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Hogg was perhaps the most remarkable man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Then wrapping himself in a large maud and pulling a slouched hat over his eyes, he left the room, descended the stairs and went out.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

I was within sight of the holly-trees, when I saw a shepherd coming down the hill, bearing something in his arms wrapped in his maud.

From Curious, if True Strange Tales by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

As Lockhart truly says, Hogg "was the most extraordinary man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd."

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew