Wood in floors and roofs has been completely consumed, but in wooden partitions, where a coat of plaster sufficiently thick was exposed to the action of the fire, the wood has been completely preserved.
In cellars or other basement offices no extra coat whatever is necessary.
To which came an answer that fortunately they had on hand such a car as he described, and that as soon as the last coat of paint and lettering could be put on, it should be shipped.
Then she bravely took her husband's coat and drew from the breast-pocket that Russia leather letter-book which she gave him at Christmas.
Then said Mr. Thompson, "we will take the privilege of clothing you with a coat of tar and feathers, and riding you out of town on a rail.
There was a pause during which Peggy rubbed her cheek up and down his coat in tender silence.
Her hands clasped the front of his coat with nervous force.
Well pleased to escape excuse and the questions it might provoke, Kenelm therefore put on the coat he had laid aside and joined Jessie, who had waited for him at the gate.
And, putting aside religion and capital, I don't see how, if these doctrines passed into law, with a good coat on my back I should not be a sufferer.
Five minutes afterwards Mrs. John Chillingly, entering the room to summon her husband to breakfast, stood astounded to see him with his coat off, and parrying the blows of Kenelm, who flew at him like a young tiger.
The whitewashed walls were relieved with coloured prints, chiefly Scriptural subjects from the New Testament, such as the Return of the Prodigal Son, in a blue coat and yellow inexpressibles, with his stockings about his heels.
By the way, the prisoner has a small box in the right-hand pocket of his coat which it would be as well to remove.
I need not say that I rushed for my coat and my hat.
And Lawyer O'Meara buttons his coat tightly about him and draws closer to the cellar wall, the better to protect himself from the drip, drip, of the rain.
He saw my blood-stained hands and garments; I opened my coat and displayed the knife, and he obeyed me.
I were goin' to give the railings a fresh coat o' paint anyways, so I may as well do it afore you begins.
This is theircoat of arms over the porch--a griffin holding a sword.
Yes, and I verily believe he'd put his coat on inside out, or wear two hats, or do something horrible, if he were thinking very hard of the Pleistocene period.
The patriarch in the picturesque weather-stained coat would slowly bring out his reminiscences during the hours she sat sketching him in his garden; the mothers would tell her their troubles; and the children swarmed round her like bees.
So the scholar's gown and pen suit thee better than the coat of mail and the sword, master Martin!
He coulde better than his lord purchase Full rich he was y-stored privily His lord well could he please subtilly, To give and lend him of his owen good, And have a thank, and yet* a coat and hood.
A white coat and a blue hood weared he A baggepipe well could he blow and soun', And therewithal he brought us out of town.
Still copying her, he learned to comb his ears with his claws and to dress his coat and to bite the burrs out of his vest and socks.
And when the last link had received its second coat of black paint, he declared himself.
He fumbled in his coat pocket and drew forth an object that flashed in the faint light.
And now," said Harry Snowling, when the survivors had been picked up and stowed safely below, "I reckon we may as well steer straight for home and get a coat of paint over them scratches on our bows.
It was astonishing how wicked looking a coat of war paint had made them.
Once, when a particular boat was passing, crowded with women, all of whom seemed to be ill, she took off her rich coat and threw it down to one of them and then returned to her car to buy yet more food.
Determined to have a hand, or rather a foot, in the chase, I threw off my coat and hurried on, before the swarm was yet fairly organized and under way.
He saw a bird, a sparrow he thinks, fly against the side of a horse and fill his beak with hair from the loosened coat of the animal.
A common coat now serves for both, The hat's no more a fixture; And which was wet and which was dry, Who knows in such a mixture?
The last of the sect to his fathers may go, Leaving only his coat for some Barnum to show; But the truth will outlive him, and broaden with years, Till the false dies away, and the wrong disappears.
Then the little red coat tails suddenly dropped out of the cloud of dust and came running back up the road to meet its master.
Instead of a clergyman's frock he wore a faded coat of blue buttoned up to his neck.
It had been the coat of an officer in the artillery, and had evidently passed through the Civil War.
After lunch Shiloh went to sleep on a soft carpet of Bermuda grass with the old man's coat for a blanket, while the other children waded in the branch, and gathered nuts till time to go back home.
But when I got there I found the door open, and inside was Mark with his coat off and dust on his nose and dust on his hands, digging around among the stock to see what was there.
It was a boy, and he was so fat his coat was 'most busted in the back where he bulged, and his name was Mark Tidd.
First he took off his coatand then he wiped his face, for the dust had been flying, and then he lifted the hood of the car and peeked inside.
I’ll give the shaven deal A coat of paint--a colourable dress, To look like calf or vellum, and conceal Its nakedness.
But no, he closed the lid of his desk; donned his hat, took down his coat from the hook, was leisurely getting into it.
Absently he stooped and dropped the message, unopened, into his coat pocket.
And now the Judge was rising, donning his coat and hat.
O'Byrn thrust his hand into the inner pocket of the boss' coat and extracted the papers, carefully transferring them to his own.
There was a big geezer in a sunrise coat goin' by just then.
Straight to Mead's desk strode the new arrival, tearing off his shabby coat as he went, Mead heeling.
She smiled assent, and, selecting one of the white roses, raised herself upon her pillows and pinned it upon his coat lapel.
Dressed simply in coat and gown of the brown hue he liked so well, with a hat of the same shade, she made a picture to rest his wearied eyes.
Mechanically the man on the wharf rose to his feet, standing with hands in his coat pockets, watching the soaring gulls.
They didn't say anything but it grew kind o' chilly, so I turns up mycoat collar and wanders along and by and by I came to the club house.
To-night the material was lavender silk trimmed in white, but the skirt had not lengthened, and over a white silk waist she wore a kind of cut-away coat that matched the skirt.
There was just zest enough in the air to make a top coat comfortable.
In the third instance the stranger undoubtedly took pains to hide his face, but he, too, was well dressed and wore a top-coat and a fedora hat of current style.
I thank you, Lord Arrowood, for this mark of confidence; but you have led me a hot chase through this house, and it is clear that you have something tucked under your coat that you have seized feloniously.
There was a clearer light in her eye, and as I helped her into her coat I felt that here was a woman to whose high qualities I had done scant justice.
She turned up the collar of the covert coat and obeyed, laughing a little nervously but asking no questions.
At the Asolando and when we had met at tea in her own house, she had worn the severest of tailored gowns, with short skirt and a coat into whose pockets she was fond of thrusting her hands.
At this moment the negro boy appeared, closely followed by the man with the bluecoat and white beaver hat whom I had taken for an eccentric gambler.
He advanced toward a bench on which his coathad been flung.
The doctor resumed his coat and picked up his beaver hat.
The servants had covered all else with a sheet; the soaked fur collar of the coat was turned up, and made a pillow for the big, iron-grey head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
