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  • His regular and strongly marked features, his handsome blue eyes rolling in their orbits, enormous mustaches, and black hair falling in long ringlets over the collar of a kurtka with narrow sleeves, struck the attention at first sight.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • His regular and strongly marked features, his handsome blue eyes rolling in their orbits, enormous mustaches, and black hair falling in long ringlets over the collar of a kurtka with narrow sleeves, struck the attention at first sight.

    Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895

  • The neck of the king was bare, a large white scalloped collar fell over the collar of the kurtka.

    Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877

  • He rode a very noble white horse and wore a Polish kurtka of light blue velvet which reached down to the knees, embroidered with golden lace, dark red mameluke pantaloons with golden galloons, white gauntlets and a three-cornered general's hat with white plumes; the saddle was of red velvet and a caparison of the same stuff, all embroidered with gold.

    Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877

  • His regular and strongly marked features, his handsome blue eyes rolling in their orbits, enormous mustaches, and black hair falling in long ringlets over the collar of a kurtka with narrow sleeves, struck the attention at first sight.

    Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811

  • Methinks, the honourable scarecrow, clad now in trist and fashionable attire, may be welcome to those who never saw him in his modest kurtka of

    Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809

  • And that brings to my mind a witty thing you said about him; you had often seen him, heaven knows where and when, in an old black _kurtka_, {20} which in fact he always wore, and you declared "he would be a lucky fellow if his soul were half as immortal as his kurtka!"

    Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809

  • A strange man with a long grey beard, wearing a black, worn-out kurtka, with a botanical case suspended at his side, and slippers over his boots, on account of the damp rainy weather, inquired after me, and left these papers behind him.

    Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809

  • pozytywnie's diary pozytywnie's Diaryland Diary spedzamy wczoraj 12godzin razem. zupa u mnie, chodzenie po galerii. przelamuje sie, widze to. zdejmuje klapki z oczu, poza quiksilverem pojawiaja sie inne sklepy. fajna kurtka + rekawiczki w kappahlu, fajny sweterek w zarze. w miedzyczasie smsowanie z Klaudia i cos, ze jej bardziej dzis pasuje.

    - pozytywnie 2007

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