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Twice before the dawn she was stoned down Roothing High Street, even as seven years before men looked at her from behind glazed, amused masks; and she had put up her hand to her head and found that a stone had drawn blood; and Mr. Goode's kind voice said something about, "A bit of boys 'fun, Mr. Peacey," and she had stared before her at a black, broadclothed bulk.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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The men were sleekly broadclothed, but they lacked the well-dressed air, somehow.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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The men were sleekly broadclothed, but they lacked the well-dressed air, somehow.
Fanny Herself 1917
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The grave, square-bearded, broadclothed burghers, and their portly dames in velvet and three-piled taffeta, looked down from every post of vantage, while here and there a pretty, timid face peeping out from a Puritan coif made good the old claim, that Taunton excelled in beautiful women as well as in gallant men.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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In that solid, black-broadclothed, respectable figure, that massive watchchain, that white waistcoat, that diamond pin glistening in the satin cravat,
A First Family of Tasajara Bret Harte 1869
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