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Example sentences for "frock coat"

  • Our God wears a frock coat, a starched linen collar and black necktie, and a silk hat, and on the Sabbath he preaches to the congregation of Heaven.

  • Visiting cards should be kept in a small case of sealskin or black or Russia leather and carried in the inside pocket of a frock coat, or if small enough more conveniently in the waistcoat pocket.

  • A pipe is never smoked on fashionable promenades, and a man in a top hat and a frock coat with a pipe in his mouth is an anomaly.

  • A frock coat can be made for forty or fifty dollars; seventy-five to one hundred dollars is charged by the most expensive tailors.

  • He still wore a frock coat but he did it with the most painstaking negligence, and from some standpoints it did not look a bit like a frock coat.

  • But in civies, even a frock coat, I've an idea she wouldn't recognize me as a noble hero.

  • Then Pa Gummidge, shaved and slicked up as to face and hair, his bowlegs in a pair of striped weddin' trousers and the rest of him draped in a frock coat and a fancy vest, with gold eyeglasses hung on him by a black ribbon.

  • A satin-faced lapel is not conservative on a cutaway, but it is the correct facing for the more formal (and elderly) frock coat.

  • A gray silk ascot worn with the frock coat is supposed to be the correct wedding garment of the bride's father.

  • Either a cutaway or a frock coat is always accompanied by a silk hat, and best worn with plain black waistcoat and a black bow tie or a black and white four-in-hand tie.

  • If you went into Lynn and Sedley, and made your way into the 'made robes' department, you would see me in a frock coat, walking about with a degage air and directing ladies who want to buy petticoats or stockings.

  • He wore a silk hat and a frock coat, the lapel of which was adorned with a white geranium surrounded by leaves.

  • You'd 'ave to get a frock coat, you know.

  • He removed a white hair from the lapel of his closely-buttoned-up frock coat, and passed his hand over his cheeks, moustache, and square chin.

  • Thick, short, and buttoned closely into his old frock coat, he walked toward Covent Garden market.

  • Alas," he added, in melancholy tones casting his eyes alternately upon a frock coat thrown on the bed and upon the acceptance, "causes depart but effects return.

  • You know very well I have never had a frock coat.

  • I will allow you to come in a frock coat.

  • Henry would have expected a frock coat; or at least a manner of businesslike calm.

  • Inside, a man in a frock coat, shoestring necktie, and Stetson hat, sat writing at a roller-top desk.

  • He wore a top-hat of grey, with a wide brim, and a frock coat, and carried a cane with a yellowed ivory head.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    capital fellow; cups brown; duties towards; faith and; frock coat; general system; itself alone; keep himself; killed them; legislative authority; little practice; look sharp; make resistance; natural history; now and; potable water; profound peace; right welcome; seventy miles; steps were; strong hold; with you