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Frocked  adj.  Clothed in a frock.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Frocked" Quotes from Famous Books



... lovelier than love, adown the lea are singing, As they gambol, lilygarlands ever stringing: Both in blosmwhite silk are frocked: Like, unlike, they roam together Under a summervault of golden weather; Like, unlike, they sing together Side by side; Mid May's darling goldenlocked, Summer's ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... decision. He called three of his men, and desired them to take their seats in the carriage, and to convey it to the capital. A bundle of fresh straw was thrown in, two youths with arms in their hands placed themselves behind the travelers, while a white-frocked peasant sat on the box, took the reins, and indifferently drove the whole cargo, suspicious characters, patriots, and all, at a ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier. He watched little brisk figures, figures whose movement was as the tick of the great Paris ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... just how long he stood staring at her in dumb, dazed bewilderment. After those mental pictures of the Mary Thorne he had expected to find, it was small wonder that the sight of this slip of a black-frocked girl, with her soft voice, her tawny-golden hair and wistful eyes, should stun him into temporary speechlessness. Even when he finally pulled himself together to feel a hot flush flaming in his face and find one gloved hand recklessly crumpling his ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... itself before her vision. Excited faces round her. A sudden stoppage of the music, a frocked priest making anxious inquiries. Her own wild words; a jingle of spurs. Then many hoofs pounding on the road ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... with us, of course; and these two frocked gentlemen likewise. I see no reason for refusing ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... Benji, her littlest one, her darling! She longed, as it were, to throw open the door, and in that blue frock and in the spirit of that blue frock most ardently to run in to them and hug them, blue frocked, to her breast, and be one with them and tell them the things and the things and the things that were the blue frock's mysteries and joys, and hear from them the things and the things and the things that were the blue frock's all-enchanted ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... astounded that the padre addressed the council in their own words—truly of all priests ever frocked he had found the one most subtle for the work in hand, for having gained the council—as it was easy to see he had gained them—Padre Vicente spoke in ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan

... showers Allah deign * Shed on Convent hight Abdun[FN85] drop and drip of railing rain: Oft the breezes of the morning have awakened me therein * When the Dawn shows her blaze,[FN86] ere the bird of flight was fain; And the voices of the monks that with chants awoke the walls * Black-frocked shavelings ever wont the cup amorn to drain.[FN87] 'Mid the throng how many fair with languour-kohl'd eyes[FN88] * And lids enfolding lovely orbs where black on white was lain, In secret came to see me by shirt of night disguised ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... she was, looking as she did, in comparison with Sally, she held all the weapons. She could play them, wield them, just as she wished. Well-frocked, looking her best, a woman is a dangerous animal; but throw her in contact with another of her sex who is but poorly clad, socially beneath her, and in training her inferior, and you may behold all the grace, all the symmetry of the cobra as it unwinds its beautiful, sinuous body before ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... park gate to his left, he hurried up the lane leading to the vicarage. One look! he might not be able to leave the squire later. The gate of the wood-path was ajar. Surely just inside it he should find Catherine in her garden hat, the white-frocked child dragging behind her! And there was the square stone house, the brown cornfield, the red-brown woods! Why, what had the man been doing with the study? White blinds showed it was a bedroom now. Vandal! Besides, how could the ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... though nominally he had been acting as best man to a brother officer, he had spent most of his time in the service of the muslin-frocked, bare-legged atom who now sprawled upon his knee with all the privilege of old acquaintance, assuring him of her whole-hearted ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... way to New York, and to the pier of the incoming French Line steamer, must always remain a mystery. But he was there, with the fierce old eyes quenched and swimming and the passionate Dabney lips trembling strangely under the great mustaches, when the black-frocked little waif from the Old World ran down the landing stage and into his arms. Small wonder that they clung to each other, these two at the further extremes of three generations; or that the child opened a door in the heart of the fierce old partizan which was locked and ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... them, the two frocked boors now took a good long look at Israel, meantime scratching their heads under their ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville



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