Far from the Madding Crowd: (Thomas Hardy Classics Collection)
- ISBN-10
- 1502313294
- ISBN-13
- 9781502313294
- Series
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Category
- Farm life
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-08
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
Description
Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own-the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp-their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
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