Today there are Jews like Karl Marx, both on the right, such as the fur-hatted, black-coated brigade that love Yasser Arafat, and also on the left, like your Kaufman MP. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Leslie Coons with the Austin Humane Society said that black-coated animals spend the longest amount of time at the Austin shelter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Even from his partial perspective he could see a knot of black-coated footmen and a steady passage of elegantly dressed guests coming in from the front. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
“Would you like to look at the paper, sir?” here interposed the stout gentleman (it had a flaming article against the order of the black-coated gentleman who was travelling with them in the carriage), and Pen thanked him and took it, and pursued his reverie, without reading two sentences of the journal. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As he went he dodged two small parties of Dragoons and one of the black-coated Germans. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
For just an instant, he thought it might be a huge black-coated shaggy dog, with a body three yards in length. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2006)
As we came to this verse, I chanced to look up from my book towards the swarm of black-coated pensioners: and amongst them — amongst them — sate Thomas Newcome. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Another of the black-coated functionaries tottered backwards, his hands laden with another burlap sack of broken ice, and fell. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
The mingling of black-coated men and bright ladies gave a charming appearance to the groups as seen by Faith and her brother, the whole spectacle deriving an unexpected novelty from the accident of reaching their eyes through interstices in the tracery of green leaves, which added to the picture a softness that it would not otherwise have possessed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She was dragged without ceremony down a nearby hallway and thrown, there was no other word for it, like a sack of goods into a dimly lit room guarded by two black-coated soldiers of Macklenburg. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
The remaining Dragoons saw what was happening and charged the knot of figures at the door, cutting down two more of the black-coated men in their way. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
Directly above him on the wide, first landing of the staircase, which made a balcony from which to overlook the quarry, stood the party of black-coated men: the Royal personage, Crabbé, and to the side, his complexion the color of dried paste, Mr. Phelps, his arm in a sling. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
And as for Oriel, he has not even the benefit of purgatory, which he would accord to his neighbor Ebenezer; while old Slocum pronounces both to be a couple of humbugs; and Mr. Mole, the demure little beetle-browed chaplain of the little church of Avemary Lane, keeps his sly eyes down to the ground when he passes any one of his black-coated brethren. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Instead of ‘showing up’ the parsons, are we indulging in maudlin praises of that monstrous black-coated race? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Black-hatted, black-coated, cadaverous, expressionless, the survivor is left watching the train rage past, every face in every window as blank and pitiless as his own. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
She caught her footing and turned to see Chang parry a cudgel with one of his blades and bring the other down deep into the shoulder joint of one of the black-coated men. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
Among the varieties of the Snob Clerical, the University Snob and the Scholastic Snob ought never to be forgotten; they form a very strong battalion in the black-coated army. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Notwithstanding the regularity of his tread, there was caution in it, as in that of one who mentally feels his way; and despite the fact that it was not a black coat nor a dark garment of any sort that he wore, there was something about him which suggested that he naturally belonged to the black-coated tribes of men. ❋ Unknown (2006)
From the forge behind him emerged two of his black-coated troopers. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)
