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  • “He is a powerful man,” de Gier said, struggling out of his duffelcoat.

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

  • “I thought my duffelcoat was silly, you made a lot of funny remarks about it on the train.”

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

  • Grijpstra had been amused when he saw de Gier at the central station of Amsterdam, huddled in a heavy, dark blue duffelcoat and adorned with a binocular case dangling from a leather strap, but now he envied the sergeant, who stood at the railing of the ferry, warm and comfortable under his load of cloth while Grijpstra felt the wind go right through his thin raincoat and had to hang on to his hat.

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

  • The commissaris was holding on to an enormous cigar and de Gier had rolled himself a cigarette from a little bag of tobacco which he had found in the pocket of his duffelcoat.

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

  • "It's cold outside, but that won't stop people tearing their clothes off and jumping into the pool," said Clare, as she peeled off her duffelcoat.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • "It's cold outside, but that won't stop people tearing their clothes off and jumping into the pool," said Clare, as she peeled off her duffelcoat.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • You looked too innocent, sitting on that log in your duffelcoat.”

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

  • He didn’t walk, he bounced, with great leaping strides, and he had long black hair and a thick curly beard and bloodshot small eyes, and he dressed in a long black duffelcoat with a hood.

    Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

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