They aren't to be accepted as anything except actors wearing bear suits, which look as if they had been too long in an attic trunk.

Then, without a word, he got down on his knees beside me, and we both mopped up the floor with the old clothes from the attic trunks.

She has all but disappeared inside the long hallways of this red-brick complex, like some half-forgotten heirloom in a dusty attic trunk.

As a young girl, Jacqueline Norman Klauber discovered 13 bronze statues of deities in an attic trunk of her sea captain grandfather.

The Hindustan Times wrote that, "This one comes out smelling of mothballs, like a wedding dress stored for decades in an attic trunk.

Schubert masterpieces kept emerging from attic trunks 40 and 50 years after the composer's death.

I would have thought all this stuff had vanished during the Cultural Revolution, but Shanghai's attic trunks, apparently, are bottomless.

They stashed the new maid in an attic trunk.

But the first half was lost until the trustee's granddaughter, a Hollywood librarian, found it last year in an attic trunk.

The wittily outlandish costumes, designed by Jane Schloss Phelan, look as if they had come out of some attic trunk.