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  • Jacob Welse helped his visitor into his fur great-coat and went on.

    CHAPTER 6 2010

  • I unlaced my shoes, unbottoned my great-coat and coat, and was ready to make a quick partial strip a minute or so before we struck.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • He drew it under the sleeve of his mulberry-coloured great-coat, and I walked on, almost upon compulsion, arm-in-arm with him.

    Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

  • The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken.

    Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

  • I am afraid, you will catch cold, unless you throw off those wet clothes; and though I have no woman's gear, you can have my great-coat, and I can spare you a blanket besides. '

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags and black with mud.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the chair.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell from one of the pockets of the great-coat.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • But hand me that great-coat, Captain, and we will place the instruments in ambuscade, until they are called into action in due time.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon.

    Les Miserables 2008

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