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Fourthy, fifthly, and lastly, another couple: newly married too, if one might judge from the endearments they frequently interchanged: of whom I know no more than that they were rather a mysterious, run-away kind of couple; that the lady had great personal attractions also; and that the gentleman carried more guns with him than Robinson Crusoe, wore a shooting-coat, and had two great dogs on board.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

I was present at an execution in Rome, for a most treacherous and wicked murder, and not only saw the same kind of assemblage there, but, wearing what is called a shooting-coat, with a great many pockets in it, felt innumerable hands busy in every one of them, close to the scaffold.

Miscellaneous Papers 2007

I then beheld, reclining on his back upon the floor, on a kind of mattress or divan, a little man in a shooting-coat.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

On turning to observe him, they perceived a person making towards them dressed in a clean grey shooting-coat, white trousers, black hat — in fact, a very decent-looking man.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

That little man in the square-cut coat — we may almost call it a shooting-coat — swinging an umbrella and wearing no gloves, is no less a person than the Lord

Phineas Finn 2004

But Frank had in some mysterious way drawn his hat very far over his forehead, and had buttoned his shooting-coat up round his chin.

Doctor Thorne 2004

He did not know where he was, but saw sitting on the trunk of a tree, which had been cut down, a man who was well dressed and wore a green shooting-coat.

Household Tales 2003

With a stout walking-stick in his hand, and a short shooting-coat, and a wide-awake hat in much better trim than

Uncle Silas 2003

And he put on a new shooting-coat, the buttons on which were elaborate, and a wonderful waistcoat worked over with foxes 'heads.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

They had all left the water, and were sitting or standing about at their toilets, in all costumes, from a shirt upwards, when they were aware of a man in a velveteen shooting-coat approaching from the other side.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971