red-jacket

It is the red-jacket boy that I remember, the one who has big thoughts to think, decisions to make.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

And the red-jacket guy had gone back to his own world, back out to sea, maybe.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

Sebastian, my red-jacket boy, looks at me for a while.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

I want to be there if the red-jacket boy happens to come back.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

Here is where he is supposed to smile back, big and beaming, the red-jacket boy seeing the connection we already have.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

It is the same red-jacket boy who comes to the zoo at night, who I now know works in a bookstore with posters of Paris on the walls and too many gardening books, with customers who call him by name.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

I flip over to the elephants, hoping for even red-jacket cyber contact.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

I hurry home after school the day after I see the red-jacket boy.

The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

Slapper's long-tailed leggy mare in the custody of a red-jacket until the Captain is primed for the Park with a glass of curacoa; and where you see Hobby, of the Highland Buffs, driving up with Dobby, of the

The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Hard doubtless it is -- and I freely confess it -- to be called by sound of bugle, or tuck of drum, from the counter and the shopboard -- men, that have been born and bred to peaceful callings, to mount the red-jacket, soap the hair, buckle on the buff-belt, load with ball-cartridge, and screw bayonets; but it's no use talking.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824