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Example sentences for "plain clothes"

  • You, Mr. Inspector, will therefore take care and have at least a dozen of your men in plain clothes at the assembly to-morrow evening.

  • Next second three men in plain clothes and a couple of police-agents in uniform burst into the room, and Adolphe found himself seized roughly and secured.

  • Another agent of police, in plain clothes, entered and saluted.

  • Adolphe, in the hands of the two other men in plain clothes, made no reply, but at the moment Mme.

  • Two men were there--men whom he instantly recognised as police agents in plain clothes.

  • One night I put my plain clothes on and spent the night with the "wharf rats" on the banks of the Thames.

  • Gordon was dressed in plain clothes with a cane in his hand.

  • As a flunky, there was the incentive of double pay, the wearing of plain clothes, and some intimate touch with the aristocracy.

  • About midnight, July 29, he entered Paris on foot and in plain clothes, having clambered over the barricades.

  • That afternoon I was called out, being part of a batch of nine prisoners, mostly in plain clothes.

  • Some of us were in plain clothes, some in uniform.

  • Later in the day two mounted officers in plain clothes, one of them a captain, whom our friend had served as orderly, called him and an artilleryman out of the ranks, and ordered them to accompany them.

  • At last Edwards ascended the stairs with Horton and another constable in plain clothes, and scrambled across the settle to where we stood.

  • About half-past ten we four men walked down the avenue into the village, where we found the constable with two other officers in plain clothes.

  • She probably took me for a police officer in plain clothes.

  • Three of them were in plain clothes; the other was a soldier.

  • Yes; we had some of our people at the store, in plain clothes," Slater said.

  • And four guards, plain clothes if possible, but don't waste time changing clothes if you don't have anybody out of uniform.

  • They are being concentrated in lower Manhattan, in plain clothes, with only concealed weapons, and carrying their hoods folded up under their coats.

  • Let you, and this fellow, put on plain clothes, and I will meet you both; and then I will show you whether I am afraid to give satisfaction.

  • Bradbury and one of his fellows waited as private servants; other officers, in plain clothes, watched back and front.

  • At least the German term he used was one which could be translated as hostage, but after talking it over we came to the conclusion that the man's role was more analogous to that of a "plain clothes" special policeman.

  • I had my emissaries in plain clothes stationed at each exit.

  • Some of my men were placed with backs against the wall, whilst others were distributed amongst the chairs, all in plain clothes.

  • There were seven others in there, all quiet individuals in plain clothes, who rose and bowed to me when I was brought in, thinking at first, I suppose, that I was Gerald.

  • A policeman in plain clothes wanted to speak to him.

  • It was two men in plain clothes, and there was a cab outside and a p'liceman on the box.

  • He was in plain clothes; the first time since her childhood that she had ever seen him out of uniform.

  • Remember, both of you, the face of that Russian in plain clothes, and if you should see him about the streets, inform me of it; I have a little bill to settle with my gentleman.

  • Accustomed to male attire, which she had worn for some seventeen out of the full tally of the years of her life, she betrayed no awkwardness, whether in plain clothes or in uniform.

  • The Duchess introduced them to Captain Tartar, who imagining them, from their being in plain clothes, to be young Englishmen of fortune on their travels, was very gracious and condescending.

  • Let you and this fellow put on plain clothes, and I will meet you both--and then I'll show you whether I am afraid to give satisfaction.

  • On receipt of my card, an experienced man, in plain clothes, will present himself at any address that I indicate, and will take her quietly away.

  • And then he stood at ease, self-revealed in his own sinister identity--a police officer in plain clothes.

  • While she was gazing in rapt admiration upon the blazing jewels, the messenger returned, accompanied by a policeman in plain clothes.

  • The boy vanished and soon reappeared, ushering in the policeman in plain clothes.

  • Rose, growing impatient of the whispered colloquy between the jeweller and the policeman in plain clothes, although she was quite unsuspicious of its subject.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    canned fruit; early years; five centimes; fruit juices; honour bound; land will; make like; merely nominal; other mens; plain chant; plain enough; plain knitting; plain round; plain sewing; plain sight; plain story; plain that; plain truth; plain view; plain white; plainly appears; plainly seen; plainly written; small boy; ten dollars; what relates