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  • Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Alexander had his dust-coat, but Hannele had nothing but a light knitted jersey-coat, such as women wear indoors.

    The Captain's Doll 2003

  • Elsa, in a drab-coloured dust-coat, a grey hat with a brown gossamer veil flying from it, and yellow boots; with a little travelling-bag slung across her shoulders, and carrying a band-box and a brown-holland hold-all, on which, in red cotton, with many a flourish, was embroidered: “A pleasant journey!”

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • I did not take stock of him very carefully, but he seemed to be dressed in some shabby summer dust-coat, much too light for the season.

    The Idiot 2002

  • He came aboard like a vessel of wrath, stamping up the gangway and roaring, a small, round, red-faced cleric with corks hanging from his hat like an Australian swagman, a green veil streaming behind, an enormous dust-coat, and a fly-whisk which he used as a flail on hindering Orientals.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • He came aboard like a vessel of wrath, stamping up the gangway and roaring, a small, round, red-faced cleric with corks hanging from his hat like an Australian swagman, a green veil streaming behind, an enormous dust-coat, and a fly-whisk which he used as a flail on hindering Orientals.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • He came aboard like a vessel of wrath, stamping up the gangway and roaring, a small, round, red-faced cleric with corks hanging from his hat like an Australian swagman, a green veil streaming behind, an enormous dust-coat, and a fly-whisk which he used as a flail on hindering Orientals.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • The paper he crammed into the pocket of his light yellow dust-coat, and extended his hand as if to assist some one else from the vehicle.

    Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

  • Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair — the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

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