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Smoots Beste was about to grumble, but he changed his mind, and took the letter, buttoning it up in the flapped pocket of his tan-cord jacket, and the long whip cracked like
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Dutch bodies, in moleskin, tan-cord, and greasy homespun, topped by lowering Dutch faces.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Then a short young Corporal, who had been leaning back in an angle of the earthwork, hugging his sharp knees and staring at nothing in particular with pale-coloured, ugly, honest eyes, grew painfully crimson through his crust of sun-tan and grime, and said something that made the lean bodies in ragged, filthy tan-cord and dilapidated khâki, or torn and muddy tweed, slew round upon the unclean straw on which they squatted.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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