I was once so unwary as to mention my Fancy in relation to the new-fashioned Surtout before one of these Gentlemen, who was disingenuous enough to steal my Thought, and by that means prevented my intended Stroke.
Why, that splendid officer, talking to the pale little man, in a gray surtout and leather breeches.
Mr. John Brown, buttoning his surtout over the snug rotundity of his person and drawing on his gloves.
A camlet surtout was buttoned round his mouth, a large patch was placed over his left eye, and nearly every part of his face was concealed.
That which he usually wore: a foraging-cap with a gold band, a blue military surtout coat, light trousers, and Wellington boots.
The young man in the vault has anything but a military air; he shows no waistcoat, and he does not wear "a tightish blue surtout," or any surtout at all.
The surtout of the period is shown, worn by Jasper, in Sir L.
A tightly buttoned surtout would show Helena's feminine figure; but let that also pass.
At last a corpulent gentleman, who had equipped himself for this expedition with a scarlet surtout and a large hat with a broad lace, drew out his watch, looked on it in silence, and then held it dangling at his finger.
In a sort of inspiration he seized a pair of scissors, for the purpose of converting with his own untutored hand of genius his pea-green surtout into a pea-green frock.
He placed it under the bed, and waited until the first call of the turnkey was over, and then he stuffed his surtout into the flue of the small fire-place, which afforded the only ventilation of his cell, and so was smothered.
A loose surtout of thick green blanket-cloth, somewhat faded and worn, adds to the colossal appearance of the man: while a red-flannel shirt serves him also for a vest.
He walked stiffly and erectly like a petrified block of meat squeezed into a tight surtout with difficulty.
He was dressed, or rather squeezed into a stylish surtout and held his hat in his hand while a workman helped him on with his overcoat.
The elderly gentleman in the chestnut Surtout turned from the exit of Charlie and Dickie Maggs to survey the subject of their insolence.
By this time, they had reached the famous wrought-iron gates of the principal entrance, where an old man in an enormous three-cornered hat and long heavily laced surtout walked up and down.
Thomas produced it from under the seven capes of his surtout without perceptibly diminishing his girth.
He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air.
He then proceeded, in a hurried and agitated manner, to extract from a side-pocket in his surtout a large morocco pocket-book.
This odd little gentleman was dressed in a loose surtout of sky-blue satin, with tight breeches to match, fastened with silver buckles at the knees.
To this desk, then, Peter betook himself the moment he had hung his gray surtout on its hook in the closet and disposed of his hat and umbrella.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surtout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
