heather-mixture

A nail caught the seat of my trousers, and I left a wisp of heather-mixture behind me.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Close by in the High Street perhaps the trumpets may sound about the stroke of noon; and you see a troop of citizens in tawdry masquerade; tabard above, heather-mixture trowser below, and the men themselves trudging in the mud among unsympathetic by-standers.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

A brown jersey dress under a knobbly heather-mixture cardigan indicated that she had probably gone to bed and tried to sleep for the first time since Alison had vanished.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

He had shaved and was neatly dressed in dark grey flannel trousers, a blue shirt open at the neck, and a heather-mixture tweed jacket.

The Murder of Busy Lizzie Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1973

I allow myself a month every year of my native heath, heather-mixture, and burr

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

But the real heather-mixture, double-distilled Scot is a hardy bird with different ideas from _nous autres_ as to what is cold: also as to what is hot.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various

I have brought the heather-mixture suit, as the climatic conditions are congenial.

My Man Jeeves 1928

"Not that tie with the heather-mixture lounge, sir!"

My Man Jeeves 1928

"Our heather-mixture lounge is in readiness, sir."

My Man Jeeves 1928

Arthur Juke's heather-mixture knickerbockers, of which hitherto I had never approved.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928