Blue Coat

Then he rose up in the morning and stood before the blue-coat soldiers of the King and told them what he had done, and told them that they were free to choose, all of them, whether to obey their officers and go into battle, or march instead in defense of Tom Jefferson's great Declaration of Freedom. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1987)

There was an embarrassment of blue-coat prisoners on the march between two lines of gray uniforms, and pockets of the enemy such as that at Fort Clay were left behind. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

You know I am a blue-coat, and don't care about them. ' ❋ Alfred Kingston (N/A)

I had been there about fifteen minutes when a blue-coat rose up in front of me -- right out of the ground it seemed -- and says, very fierce, 'You're my prisoner!' ❋ Robert Fitzgerald (N/A)

The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute with library and school of art. ❋ Various (N/A)

"It's all right, Callahan," said Stodger to the discomfited blue-coat. ❋ Charles Edmonds Walk (N/A)

Thirty years afterwards, Mr. Saumarez retained the liveliest recollections of the extraordinary, enthusiastic blue-coat boy, and was exceedingly affected in identifying me with that boy. ❋ James Gillman (N/A)

The Hamburgers were supposed to receive certain pecuniary advantages from this lottery in the shape of benefits bestowed upon the Waisenkinder of the town, who, like our own blue-coat boys of the old time, were the drawers of the numbers; but the advantages were very questionable, seeing that the bulk of speculators were the ❋ William Duthie (N/A)

The dog bit several other dogs, a blue-coat boy, and two children, before he was destroyed. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

"I seed a feller makin 'tracks toward the river," said the seeming countryman in answer to a query from a blue-coat. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)

The blue-coat raised his eyes to Heaven with, "Thank God, Johnnie; it may come around that I may be able to do you a kindness, and I'll never forget this drink of liquor." ❋ Unknown (1905)

So ended the Confederate control over the mouth of the Mississippi; and Porter, after waiting long enough to see a blue-coat garrison in Forts St. Philip and Jackson, started up the river to rejoin his chief in New Orleans. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)

I assure you, however, that I make this statement with reluctance and reserve, for the handsome blue-coat is one of our most cunning and interesting birds, and would be greatly missed if he were exterminated. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The blue-coat stopped another by drawing his revolver and commanding a halt. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Hansom-cab drivers, attracted by the noise of our altercation, drew up to the sidewalk to watch developments, and then, after the usual fifteen or twenty minutes, the blue-coat emissary of justice appeared. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

The big blue-coat looked a little bit ashamed as he marched him down the street, followed at a distance by a few hooting boys. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

He had found the Union officers men of means, if not of such picturesquely martial attributes as their Southern opponents; and while he would not deny his friendship for many a gallant fellow in the rebel gray, neither would he rebuff the blue-coat whose palm was tinged with green. ❋ Charles King (1888)

Unless I am greatly mistaken, he is now a member of the Ithaca, N. Y., police force, and an honored member of the blue-coat and brass-button brigade. ❋ Adrian Constantine Anson (1887)

Mrs. Beaton expressed a wish that he could be turned into a blue-coat boy; his curly golden head was so pretty that it was almost a sin to cover it with a cap, and he would soon grow used to being without one. ❋ Sarah Doudney (1884)

White Trash person on [the porch] in northern Alabama: "Hey, do y'all see [thuh] blue coats cummin' in [thur] Leen-cun towncawr down from Ohah-yuh? (Ohio)" ❋ Harry Balzac (2005)

She is a blue coat and followed the [holistic] approach to [healing] her [cancer]. ❋ Iron Skillet Soup (2016)

She is [one of] the blue coats, she [chose] not to have [chemo] ❋ Iron Skillet Soup (2016)

"oh are you coming [sixth form]?" "[no way jose], blue coat academy sucks I'd rather go [Walsall] College or something." ❋ Spicyspinalfluid (2019)

Blue coat [school] is [a shit] school ❋ Bbc Gangster (2019)

DId you see Blue Coat Boy? Yeah he [held] [the door] out [for me] today and I really wanted to talk to him! ❋ Avocado Toast ✰ (2018)