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A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea?

Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me?

Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,

Till this funereal web my labors end.

Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort

Her mingled suits and sequences.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes[…], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:

"You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table