waistcoat

• Others might see glory only through hexameters and pentameters; renown might await others only through boating or cricket; with him the colour of his coat and the cut of his waistcoat were the materials of fame. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• His manner denoted a degree of social training and a knowledge of social forms acquired in another than his present environment, but he was too fond of the limelight--it cheapened him; too broad in his attentions to women--it coarsened him; his waistcoat was the dingy waistcoat of a man of careless habits; his linen was not too immaculate and the nails of his blunt fingers showed lack of attention. —  The Lady Doc
• The Earl of Barfield had kept his promise, and had bestowed upon Joseph a laced waistcoat--a waistcoat which had not been worn since the first decade of the century, and was old-fashioned even then. —  Aunt Rachel
• The brute has a toothpick in his waistcoat pocket, or in the thing that serves him for a waistcoat--an instrument that, he says, has been in his family the last fifty years. —  Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
• In the waistcoat was a gold watch (which had stopped at 10.55), with a chain and a sovereign-purse containing two sovereigns and a half-sovereign: in the left-hand breast pocket of the dinner-jacket a handkerchief, unmarked: in the right-hand pocket a bundle of notes and a worn bean-shaped case for a pair of eyeglasses. —  Foe-Farrell

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