blue-coat

Then he rose up in the morning and stood before the blue-coat soldiers of the King and told them what he had done, and told them that they were free to choose, all of them, whether to obey their officers and go into battle, or march instead in defense of Tom Jefferson's great Declaration of Freedom.

Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987

There was an embarrassment of blue-coat prisoners on the march between two lines of gray uniforms, and pockets of the enemy such as that at Fort Clay were left behind.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

You know I am a blue-coat, and don't care about them. '

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

I had been there about fifteen minutes when a blue-coat rose up in front of me -- right out of the ground it seemed -- and says, very fierce, 'You're my prisoner!'

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute with library and school of art.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

"It's all right, Callahan," said Stodger to the discomfited blue-coat.

The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk

Thirty years afterwards, Mr. Saumarez retained the liveliest recollections of the extraordinary, enthusiastic blue-coat boy, and was exceedingly affected in identifying me with that boy.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

The Hamburgers were supposed to receive certain pecuniary advantages from this lottery in the shape of benefits bestowed upon the Waisenkinder of the town, who, like our own blue-coat boys of the old time, were the drawers of the numbers; but the advantages were very questionable, seeing that the bulk of speculators were the

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

The dog bit several other dogs, a blue-coat boy, and two children, before he was destroyed.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

"I seed a feller makin 'tracks toward the river," said the seeming countryman in answer to a query from a blue-coat.

Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton