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Example sentences for "black coat"

  • It is not because one wears a black coat and is adverse to fighting that one is not able to defend one's self.

  • Black coat or no black coat," Vincent said, "you may find it more difficult than you think.

  • You say it's unpleasant to know that if you travel with a man in a black coat he may be a traitor.

  • Mr. Pendyce, in his Norfolk jacket, which he was on his way to change for a black coat, passed through the room, followed by the spaniel John.

  • She could see him--a little man in a black coat, with a white face which kept jerking up and down.

  • Ten minutes afterwards, General Morcerf was seen on the steps in a black coat with a military collar, black pantaloons, and black gloves.

  • Andrea Cavalcanti, the young man in a black coat, looking at Murillo's Madonna; now he is turning.

  • It looks very neat on a black coat buttoned up.

  • Leontes' costume consists of a black coat, belted around the waist, black knee breeches and hose, confined with a gold band and showy paste pin.

  • Was that your master's black coat, or a strange black coat?

  • I can save him by putting on a black coat, I'll go buy mourning, and wear it all my life.

  • Only put on a black coat, and the business is done.

  • I ran down to the stone-heap, and there I found my Sunday washing, my black coat, and my fiddle.

  • She found her child a poor student in a black coat, which he had had given him, and with his hair combed off his forehead.

  • The little man glanced at me quite fearsomely: I had a black coat on and a white scarf round my neck and I looked very grand in his eyes.

  • I found that my cousin, in avoiding one omen, had stumbled upon another, in my black coat.

  • I could not avoid stealing a look at the sleeve of my black coat.

  • However, no reflections; he is my cousin and a good prudent lad, and showed great anxiety for my safety; rather too anxious, for he would not let me take my black coat with me.

  • In the midst of the surging throng, above the sea of heads, could be seen an old man in a black coat, mounted on a white horse with a velvet saddle.

  • It had been better taste to come in a black coat, Mr. Coombes thought.

  • The braid that bound his decent black coat--it was a little loose--caught against the catch of the shop door, and was torn loose.

  • He wore a black coat worn at the elbows, and revealing whenever he raised his arms too high a ventilator under the armpits.

  • First of all, I renounce my vagabond existence: I shall dress like other people, set up a black coat, and go to evening parties.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also published; black and white marble; black ants; black ball; black beard; black belt; black buck; black cloth; black colour; black eyes; black face; black fellow; black fellows; black flag; black flies; black folks; black granite; black ivory; black magic; black marble; black market; black night; black smoke; good lady; must make; sixty miles