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  • They made for a motley trio—Morris with his fine clothes and gold-tipped walking stick, Washington in his blue-serge uniform, and Paine disheveled and threadbare.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • They made for a motley trio—Morris with his fine clothes and gold-tipped walking stick, Washington in his blue-serge uniform, and Paine disheveled and threadbare.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • He wore a blue-serge suit, a crisp white shirt, and a checkered tie.

    Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010

  • He wore a blue-serge suit, a crisp white shirt, and a checkered tie.

    Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010

  • He wore a blue-serge suit, a crisp white shirt, and a checkered tie.

    Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010

  • The desk clerk, a thin guy with a funeral-director smile and a blue-serge suit, told me he was sorry but Mr. Forbes and Mr.. Forbes were not in the hotel.

    Dancing in the Dark Kaminsky, Stuart 1996

  • She wore a blue-serge skirt, a white blouse buttoned high around the neck, and a small gold watch on a necklace chain.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • One of the newcomers, dressed in the neat blue-serge uniform of an inspector of the Force, was familiar to

    The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

  • Presently the papers were cast aside, the bowed shoulders in the splendidly-cut blue-serge uniform squared back in the chair, and Redmond found himself being scrutinized intently by the all-familiar bronzed old aristocratic countenance, with its sweeping fair moustache.

    The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

  • He was in summer and office negligée, an unlined blue-serge coat, a white-silk shirt which lay lightly to his body flexuosity, and above the soft collar he had taken on enough outdoor tan to make his smile whiter.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

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