blue-coats

The action is pretty much pell mell, the narrative and main character well drawn but … most of the remaining cast are one-dimensional and in some cases outright caricatures (wenches, blue-coats, henchmen, etc).

“Mad Kestrel” by Misty Massey Doug Knipe 2008

But the Frogs made nothing of their part of the business, and Nolan and I were to and fro like shuttlecocks to St Arnaud; he was looking like death, and jabbering like fury, while a bare half-mile away his little blue-coats were swarming up the ridges, and being battered, and the smoke was rolling back over the river in long grey wreaths.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

He kept firing, until the blue-coats were within twenty yards.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

We're very likely to have a thousand or more blue-coats charging the compound.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Within moments, the road was empty of mounted blue-coats and greencoats, with only the wounded and dead and at least a half score of mounts milling around.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Pate again beat off the hard-striking blue-coats—but in so doing yielded his life.4

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Pate again beat off the hard-striking blue-coats—but in so doing yielded his life.4

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

He reasoned that the blue-coats might be too numerous for him to assail without help, and chose to emulate the rabbit and “lay low.”

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Pate again beat off the hard-striking blue-coats—but in so doing yielded his life.4

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Pate again beat off the hard-striking blue-coats—but in so doing yielded his life.4

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971