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  • For the fortieth time he plucked at a too-tight collar and pulled up his shirt-sleeves, for it was stifling, and he was coatless and waistcoatless.

    The Titan 2004

  • Standing by the window, coatless, waistcoatless, a glass of brandy in his hand, Simon looked down into the garden, and tried not to think.

    The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

  • For the fortieth time he plucked at a too-tight collar and pulled up his shirt-sleeves, for it was stifling, and he was coatless and waistcoatless.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • He was hatless, coatless, waistcoatless, but he had a pair of trousers, short in the leg, precariously held by one brace.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 Various 1898

  • He had also assumed, evidently in great haste, a black frock coat buttoned over his waistcoatless and cravatless shirt, and a tall black hat that already seemed to be cracking in the sunlight.

    A Sappho of Green Springs Bret Harte 1869

  • His male _vis-à-vis_ was a waistcoatless young Daniel Lambert, in white ducks, and a blue dress-coat, with a carnation in his mouth, who with a damsel in ten colours, reel'd to and fro in humble imitation.

    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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