1 And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
2 No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down because it was crammed so full of goodies.
3 It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.
4 He didn't seem at all ashamed of it, for when I explained and hurried on, he waved his hand, sock and all, saying in his loud, cheerful way.
5 I had been sitting near this door, finishing off the last sock, and trying to understand what he said to a new scholar, who is as stupid as I am.
6 But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.
7 Trembling they obeyed, even Pitty picking up a sock and holding it in shaking fingers while her eyes, wide as a frightened child's went around the circle for an explanation.
8 Kennicott drew from the injured leg the thick red "German sock," the innumerous other socks of gray and white wool, then the spiral bandage.
9 Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright needle across a hole in Otto's sock.
10 The ladies were making uniforms, knitting socks and rolling bandages, and the men were drilling and shooting.
11 She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
12 It was a warm morning and Melanie sat on the vine-shaded porch, her mending basket piled high with socks.
13 A large brick-colored Norwegian takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and props his feet in their thick gray socks against the seat in front of him.
14 She was not much disturbed when for hours he sat about the living-room in his honest socks.
15 We have to darn socks, and yet we're not content to think of nothing but socks and darning-cotton.