unclothe
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With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
This with him was to unclothe himself of his true strength.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
How came so many men of such different races and nations of mankind to hasten to unclothe themselves of all their previous beliefs in order to adopt these fantastical fables?
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
Ministering angels are dimly seen in the background, and are summoned to unclothe and clothe Joshua.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
We uncover, indeed we unclothe an ugly, pot-bellied, pale-orange larva.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
In the course of the ceremony the priest unclothes the babe and asks the godfather, “What seeks the child?”
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Avedon's picture features the young man, his torso unclothed, eyes closed, arms back, and chin raised.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023
At the dawn of the Renaissance in Europe — including France, Germany and the Netherlands as well as Italy — unclothed human bodies are emerging from a long, medieval artistic slumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
Below the sheet, Gogol realizes, his father is unclothed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.
From Time Magazine Archive
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Queen Toplissy was a handsome lady, rather heavy in physique, of an orange-yellow complexion, with bright copper-bronze hair, and her unclad arms wore a profusion of bracelets and armlets of various metals.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
A rude north wind raved among the leafless oaks that defied its power with their rugged, unclad arms.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
Over the left shoulder and across the otherwise unclad breast of the aged diplomatist glistened a patent leather belt bearing a brass plate with the arms of Netherlands under the inscription, “Sultan of Sambir.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
Why am I to begin with taking up a position not my own, and unclothing my mind of that large outfit of existing thoughts, principles, likings, desires, and hopes, which make me what I am?
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
He looked at such unclothing in his own case as possible, but was confident that it would not happen so.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
