O-ver-alls!" yelled Dan, who knew that one of the Carrie's crew had worked in an
overall factory the winter before.
We were detained under suspicion by the hospital porter, until Cynthia appeared to vouch for us, looking very cool and sweet in her long white
overall. She took us up to her sanctum, and introduced us to her fellow dispenser, a rather awe-inspiring individual, whom Cynthia cheerily addressed as "Nibs."
He hung his bow over his shoulder, and as an
overall he wore the skin of a grey wolf, while on his head he set a cap of ferret skin.
It could not be--not in those faded
overalls, too long in the legs and frayed at the bottoms.
Not being entirely bereft of prudence, he had discarded boots and stockings and borrowed Tommy Cotton's
overalls. Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him.
We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue
overalls; leathern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high-quarter coarse shoes snugly laced.
At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker's signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing
overalls and long tattered coats.
It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in
overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean.
These soiled, once-blue
overalls, these heavy, manure-spotted shoes, this greasy, shapeless straw hat, with its dozen matches showing their red heads over the band, the good soils and fertilizers of Kansas resting placidly in his ears and the lines of his neck--such a Romeo might not tempt his Juliet; he must spruce up.
In the North a suit of
overalls cost three dollars -- a day's wages; in the South it cost seventy- five -- which was two days' wages.
Uncle Henry, when the summons came, had been out in the barn "doin' chores." He wore a ragged and much soiled straw hat, a checked shirt without any collar and blue
overalls tucked into the tops of his old cowhide boots.
His trousers were ordinary
overalls, his coat was made from a blanket.