paddings

Example Sentences

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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have got rid of the trammels pretty well,—haven't I?—have unshackled myself, and thrown off the paddings, and the wrappings, and the swaddling clothes.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony

They swallowed their liqueurs, and the ashes of their cigars fell on the paddings of the furniture.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

The paddings of civilisation may be useful, yet Gilbert held more valuable a realisation of the realities of things.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs. 

From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington