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Soissons and several other ecclesiastics in their robes, blackcoated officials, some uniforms -- the whole escorted by groups of children running alongside, and a fair sprinkling of women in light dresses, with flowers on their hats, making patches of colour.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

All the old blackcoated bustle with its cockney vivacity and vulgarity had disappeared.

The Ball and the Cross 1905

The Presiding Elders, whose work all this was, stared with gloomy and impersonal abstraction down upon the rows of blackcoated humanity spread before them.

The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877

"Would you like to look at the paper, sir?" here interposed the stout gentleman (it had a flaming article against the order of the blackcoated gentleman who was traveling with them in the carriage) and

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

"I chanced to look up from my book toward the swarm of blackcoated pensioners, and among them -- among them -- sat Thomas Newcome.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892