indescribables

Scarcely (gentlemen, conceive his feelings of alarm), scarcely had he taken off his indescribables, when shrieks (to his experienced ear MATERNAL shrieks) scared the silence of surrounding night.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Mr. Trotter smiled, and holding his glass in his left hand, gave four distinct slaps on the pockets of his mulberry indescribables with his right, as if to intimate that his master might have done the same without alarming anybody much by the chinking of coin.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

He put his indescribables on again, and ran down – stairs.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Other and more transient guests included Congressmen, State legislators and lobbyists, merchants, professional men, and, after them, the whole raft of indescribables who, coming and going, make up the glow and stir of this kaleidoscopic world.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

Finally, that other despatch rider arrived swathed about with some filthy, grey, forlorn indescribables.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

He is, of all the indescribables I have known, definitely the most completely or entirely indescribable.

The Enormous Room 1928

My wife and I, if indescribables would permit us, would dance for joy to-day at the news of your release.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

Those indescribables yonder, half rabbit-hutch, half dry-dock -- a long row for ladies and a short one for gentlemen, three hundred yards apart -- couldn't trust 'em any nearer, bless you!

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

I cracked him and crushed the spider, and went to have my bath, only to find I had to fish out about twenty long-named indescribables that had committed suicide during the night.

Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

As a giant is not so easily moved, a pair of indescribables of most capacious dimensions, and a huge shoe, are usually brought out, into which two or three stout men get all at once, to the enthusiastic delight of the crowd, who are quite satisfied with the solemn assurance that these habiliments form part of the giant's everyday costume.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841