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The woman caught the corner of a blanket upon a projecting nail and another corner upon a similar nail in the upright of the bunk, and motioned the girl behind the screen with a short wave of her pipe The man offered Bill a pair of faded blue overalls and a much-bepatched shirt of blue flannel, and when Jeanne emerged, clad in the best dress of her hostess, Bill took his turn in the dressing-room Can't be too pedicular in a pinch," he grinned as he wriggled dubiously into the dry garments, and in a few minutes he was seated beside the girl upon a rough bench drawn close to the fire Chenault, being a half-breed, was more inclined toward garrulity than his Indian spouse How you come?"— The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
His rear was so marvelously bepatched with colored squares and triangles that one was half persuaded he had got it out of an atlas.— Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
This morning, when I looked into the room, there were one or two gentlemen and other respectable persons; but in the best place, close to the fire, and crouching almost into it, was an elderly beggar, with the raggedest of overcoats, two great rents in the shoulders of it disclosing the dingy lining, all bepatched with various stuff covered with dirt, and on his shoes and trousers the mud of an interminable pilgrimage.— Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
Sovran bade summon the Headsman and committed to him the criminal bidding him take the youth and robe him in a black habit bepatched with flamecolour; [FN#121] then, to set him upon a camel and, after parading him through Cairo city and all the streets, to put him to death.— Arabian nights. English
The man offered Bill a pair of faded blue overalls and a much-bepatched shirt of blue flannel, and when Jeanne emerged, clad in the best dress of her hostess, Bill took his turn in the dressing-room.— The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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