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Example sentences for "blue serge"

  • It was a dark-blue serge, very neatly made.

  • She wore a very dark-blue serge dress, and her white sailor-hat looked correct and pretty on her shining brown hair.

  • Thelma was too proud to be clothed in anything that she had not paid for herself, and the consequence was that coarse blue serge was as near as she came to poor Billie's dream.

  • Kent pulled off the timbers and broken glass and unearthed Judy's blue serge dress, which was waiting to be dyed a dismal black.

  • The purchaser of sauce and potato salad, the two cheapest and most filling of the wares, held up rather sheepishly a blue serge suit.

  • Still holding the pistol ready, the girl shifted her glance to Blue Serge.

  • I proceeded to unpack, plunged in a hand and drew forth--a pair of blue serge trousers.

  • They were made of blue serge, and when held out at width stretched all across the Common-room.

  • Farquhar, who, standing in his well-cut suit of blue serge, looked a splendid specimen of the lithe, athletic young Englishman.

  • Diamond had not long to wait, for in a few moments the door opened, and there entered a smart-looking, dark-haired young man in a blue serge suit.

  • Next moment the man who had posed on the previous evening as "Captain Wetherton" entered the room, looking smart and spruce in a well-cut suit of blue serge.

  • And this time it is it, and by ten minutes past seven Fenwick is in the arms of his family, who congratulate him on a beautiful new suit of navy-blue serge, in which he looks very handsome.

  • Add to this the chief thing you would recollect him by, an Elizabethan beard, and you will have all the particulars about him that a navy-blue serge suit, with shirt to match, allows to be seen of him.

  • A quarter of an hour before, this coastguard had looked after the visitor in a blue serge suit up at Lobjoit's, who had passed him going briskly towards the fishing-quarter.

  • Van Torp also saw a slim young lady in blue serge, with a veil tied over her hair, leaning on the rail of the promenade deck and looking towards him.

  • But what was that compared with the pedigree of the little thing in a blue serge frock?

  • There she was, looking over the rail, as neat as a pin, in a blue serge dress, with a white veil tied over her hair, watching me.

  • The result of his calculations was that he had at least ten days before him, and that as he was not at all bored by the little Tartar lady in blue serge, it was quite useless to put her ashore at Carterets and take her to Paris by that way.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    angry with; blue clay; blue cloth; blue coat; blue coats; blue color; blue cross; blue fire; blue flame; blue light; blue line; blue paper; blue rectangle; blue ribbon; blue ruin; blue silk; blue steel; distinguished himself; done before; faithful minister; half wide; hour and; operative societies; several thousands; similar work; went immediately