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

    To Build A Fire 2010

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

    To Build A Fire 2010

  • The Prussian Black Hussars fell into the grey-coated Mestre-de-Camp cavalry regiment of the French.

    Battle of Muhlenberg - January 19, 1758 Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • The Prussian Black Hussars fell into the grey-coated Mestre-de-Camp cavalry regiment of the French.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Presently, the brothers Diatlov appeared descending from the hill with bottles in their hands, and sporting like a couple of joyous puppies, while to intercept them there could be seen advancing along the bank of the river a grey-coated police sergeant and two black-coated constables.

    Through Russia 2003

  • Harry Price only had time for one more volley before the grey-coated enemy had retreated out of range.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • It was first-rate mixed cavalry for all that; I watched a bearded, grey-coated sowar, eyes glaring, whip out a peg and wheel away to yells and cheering, and was glad I wasn't a Manchoo Tartar.

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

  • It was first-rate mixed cavalry for all that; I watched a bearded, grey-coated sowar, eyes glaring, whip out a peg and wheel away to yells and cheering, and was glad I wasn't a Manchoo Tartar.

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

  • It was first-rate mixed cavalry for all that; I watched a bearded, grey-coated sowar, eyes glaring, whip out a peg and wheel away to yells and cheering, and was glad I wasn't a Manchoo Tartar.

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

  • Back, and still further back, the struggling lines of grey-coated Hun fighters had been thrust.

    Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold Charles Amory Beach

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