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  • At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, gray-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf.

    To Build a Fire 2010

  • There was plenty of talent onstage, too; in the Stravinsky it consisted of three actors and a dancer, entering in a gray-coated, floor-stamping cadre and then splintering off so that three of the performers moved fluidly into different roles around Sean Donovan's impressive, beleaguered, sometimes manic Soldier.

    Opera Review: Performances of Stravinski and Falla close the Castleton Festival 2010

  • The gray-coated veterans dug an extensive line of entrenchments behind the stream.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • At times, gray-coated infantrymen supported the mounted units in the clashes.47

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • "To be honest, I used to think they were all pests," Mozian said of the run-of-the-mill, gray-coated rodents that dig up his tulip garden every summer.

    White Squirrel Jan 2008

  • The gray-coated veterans dug an extensive line of entrenchments behind the stream.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • My mother and father, children of the Confederacy, descended from a slew of gray-coated delusionists, built a house on land that had been worked for 120 years by people descended from a slew of black-skinned laborers—realists by necessity.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • At times, gray-coated infantrymen supported the mounted units in the clashes.47

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • A gray-coated deer emerges from the tangles on the far side of the hole and makes its way slowly in my direction.

    Hunting in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, Whitetail Deer Capital of the World 2005

  • When he could see, he saw lancers gray-coated in ashes, and when he could not, he could remember all too vividly the pain of all the deaths, and the last groaning from within the earth as he had gutted, unknowing, the vast orchard for the force necessary to prevail.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

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