harlequin's

King's are just another "noble beast" to be skinned and stitched into the harlequin's suit, far as Jack's concerned.

Archive 2008-05-01 Hal Duncan 2008

King's are just another "noble beast" to be skinned and stitched into the harlequin's suit, far as Jack's concerned.

Lost in Translation Hal Duncan 2008

Now, you saw that if the dress were a harlequin's the appearance of a policeman would be quite in keeping.

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

Those and a harlequin's costume complete with mask and bells on the toes.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

"No, I'm serious," I said and wiped grease off my chin with the sleeve of my less-than-clean harlequin's costume.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

"Richelieu" in a harlequin's jacket (sticking pirate's pistols in his belt, ere he valorously _took_ whole scenes from a French melo-drama):

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

Enter R. an important-looking personage with a long white beard, wearing a costume which might be, called a commissionaire's if it wasn't so like a harlequin's.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 Various

The carpet was of red baize with a Turkish border, and figured in the middle like an harlequin's jacket.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

It wore an anomalous garment, slashed with various colors, like a harlequin's coat.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Like everything that falls from her pen, it is pert, shallow, and conceited, a farrago of ignorance, indecency, and blasphemy, a tag-rag and bob-tail style of writing -- like a harlequin's jacket. '

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston