They had discarded their overcoats for a number of hunting jackets of which the bungalow boasted, and had also donned leggings and caps.
It was great sport for the boys to divest themselves of their heavyovercoats and caps and then get to work preparing the Lodge for occupancy.
With their overcoats buttoned up tightly and their caps pulled well down over their ears, Gif, Jack and the twins sallied forth in the direction of the woodshed, which was about fifty yards away.
I came past Suwalki as they were moving up, column after column, in gray overcoats aswing in the rhythm of their stride, like the kilts of Highlanders.
Jones was adopted, with all the honors, as "Daughter of the Regiment"; and secondly the comfortable and becoming overcoats prepared with wise forethought for the regiment were issued.
I had been at the State House all night; and early in the morning, rode to the arsenal at Cambridge, to ascertain whether the orders from headquarters to send in arms, ammunition, overcoats and equipments had been properly attended to.
They are always half-clad in the winter time; their clothes differ nothing at all from their summer clothes; they have no overcoats or coats; many of them go barefoot all winter long.
Keep your mufflers up to your ears and have the collars of your overcoats turned up.
You and Coverdale had better leave your overcoats in that room and go up.
We seemed to be in the middle of a street that appeared quite familiar, and policemen and extremely efficient persons in dark overcoats seemed to abound.
By the time we had got into our overcoats and mufflers and the means of travel had been provided for us, a scene with some pretensions to pathos had been enacted in the hall.
All were soon up except Hen, who, when a more dismal and bloodcurdling wail than ever came along, hid his head under one of the overcoats that covered him.
Or, if you feel too respectable to like my company, then you can all put on your overcoats and step outdoors.
The negroes had been outfitted with old cavalry overcoats of a period shortly after the Civil War.
All summer long they wear big overcoats which come below the knee.
And what with winter coming on and everything I call it a bit thick to be taking our overcoats off of us.
Those who lacked overcoats and blankets--and some there were who lacked both--would half freeze at night.
Then, too, on the night before theirovercoats had been taken from them and no explanations vouchsafed.
The weather had turned intensely cold; the men were without tents and could not keep up fires where most of them had to stay, and, as previously stated, many had thrown away their overcoats and blankets.
Expecting to be back in their tents by that time and to be engaged in battle while out, they took with them neither overcoats nor blankets.
The young lady lay dark and silent in the stern, covered over with the overcoats and wraps, and evidently asleep.
You may fetch up the two overcoats from the boat,” Jack said, “and be quick about it.
They spread out one of the overcoats upon the sand, and made her as comfortable as they could.
There were two overcoats we brought with us,—they belong to Captain Teach,—but I left them in the yawl last night.
Not that it was really cold enough to wear them, but it is a fad with South Americans to don overcoats upon the slightest occasion.
In all this Nuble country overcoatsand thick underwear come in handy.
These overcoats had been sold by the nurses to the guards for Confederate scrip.
On the grass and leaves we spread the four overcoats belonging to our party.
What would they do, Mary, in very cold weather, if they should lose their winter clothing, overcoats and blankets, now that supplies are so difficult to obtain?
When the aperture thus made was sufficient, I began to draw from their hiding place the precious Confederate overcoats and other winter apparel confided to my keeping (as already related), by soldiers of General Joseph E.
Outer wraps andovercoats should never be worn in a warm room or while working hard.
Woolen clothing, such as overcoats and fine cloth dresses and suits, is made from the wool cut from sheep.
Cloaks, as you may see, were worn over the dress, and also those overcoats shaped much like the modern dressing-gown.
With overcoats in general the hanging sleeve is being worn, the arm of the wearer coming out just below the puffed shoulder-piece.
Overcoats were cut as simply as possible, though they did not skimp the material but made them wide and loose.
Although theovercoats of Henry's and Edward's reigns still form the principal wear, the short Spanish cloak has come in, cut in full folds, and reaching not far below the waist.
The boys were well acquainted with the trappers, and always made themselves quite at home with them; so, after brushing the snow from their feet, they pulled off their overcoats and seated themselves before the huge fireplace.
Uncle Joe met them at the door, and, while they were relieving themselves of their overcoats and weapons, asked innumerable questions about their sojourn in the woods.
Abraham Duncan wondered how it happened that so many British officers with their overcoats on were mounting their horses and riding out towards Roxbury, not in a group, but singly, or two together, with pistols in their holsters.
The provincials wrapped their overcoats closely around them, kindled fires, ate their bread and beef, told stories, sang songs, and kept ward and watch through the dreary hours.
They turned to the right in the Rue de Barrie, mounted one flight of stairs in a fine modern house, and gave theirovercoats and canes into the hands of four servants in knee-breeches.
Very recently, during the few weeks before Christmas, a sale of overcoats was advertised.
All the windows were then dressed with Christmas merchandise, but from one of them this was all removed and the sale overcoats substituted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overcoats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
