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Example sentences for "great coat"

  • I told the landlord what had happened, and on taking off my great coat, I found it to be pierced in two places just below the armpit.

  • At the hour she had named I called on her, wearing my great coat, and with a sword for my only weapon.

  • The only thing that ever makes me cold is putting on a great coat; but then I have always a great deal to do, and that keeps me warm.

  • It was a rainy, wretched night, and I was greatly surprised when Worcester, in his full dress regimentals, without a cloak or a great coat, came home on foot absolutely wet to the skin!

  • I put on my great coat I shall be dead with sweating; if I put on no jacket I shall be roasted brown; but if I put on the captain's jacket I shall be considered disrespectful.

  • But I'll take off my great coat, for the sun is hot already.

  • However, I must say, that they were very kind to me, and put a great coat or something under my wounded leg, for I was in an agony, and fainted several times.

  • Put your hand into the breast pocket of my great coat on the chair yonder, and I think you'll find the letter.

  • I will make you a present of my cloak, which you must exchange for a great coat and a hat, and everybody will take you for a countryman, as you are luckily rather like one in the face.

  • Baletti received me in his arms, I cut the cord, and after taking my great coat I followed his footsteps.

  • Whilst he was drinking with the sentry I was getting on my great coat, girding on my hanger (I had no longer a sword), and putting my loaded pistols in my pocket.

  • O'Brien put on a great coat, which the woman handed to him, with a wide-brimmed hat.

  • I pulled off the sleeves of my great coat, not thinking of my shot-pouch being over my coat, it having a very short strap, the coat got so tight in the strap that I could not get it loose for a considerable time.

  • They shot four bullets into my horse, one high up in his withers, one in the bulge of the ribs near my thigh, and two in his rump, and shot four or five through my great coat.

  • In the morning I forgot to put on my shot pouch before I put on my great coat, and then put it on over it.

  • They took me into a room where there were seven or eight of Cawsand men and my brother Charles, and when he saw me, knew me by my great coat, and cryed with joy, "This is my brother!

  • The first night I sleept on the cabin flooar covered with a great coat, then got a hammack [.

  • I slept four or five hours, and then rose and went out in my great coat to call on Greppi, for I had no more money.

  • I put on my great coat, and in the same room in which I had seen Irene I saw a young and pretty girl, about whose face there was something peculiarly noble and attractive.

  • The morning after my arrival I put on my great coat to escape observation, and proceeded to walk about Florence.

  • The road making a turn, he was concealed from me by the bushes, and took advantage of this opportunity to carry away a great coat from a load which was driven by one of the sick men.

  • The thief accordingly made his escape amongst the rocks, and when I returned to my horse, I found the other of the royal descendants had stolen my great coat.

  • Cherry put a great coat on, as a measure both of prudence and respectability.

  • But a great coat," said Cherry, "is a rational kind of garment that can't look odd anywhere.

  • A great coat," said Mr Stanforth, "is one of those graceful garments which have commended themselves to all ages.

  • The Viscount was likewise a great Mæcenas among the tailors, and a particular kind of great coat, when I was a young man, was called a Petersham.

  • A tolerable waistcoat still remained to me, and my great coat, though full of honorable scars, was yet capable of much service.

  • I now thought of my master's sword, which I had not removed from its quilted scabbard, in my great coat, since I commenced my journey.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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