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He replaced the phone to his waistcoat pocket and looked up to see a man in his late 50s, heavy-set, bald with back and sides graying hair and a friendly if canny look on his face
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His waistcoat was disgusting
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He could barely see through the streams of water running across his horn-rimmed, circular, bottle glasses, and to look at him dripping and sodden in brown tweed and corduroy waistcoat, as thin as a rake and far too short to be a policeman, you would think him incapable of exerting the slightest force upon fresh air
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It was another foot, but tiny, belonging to a little old lady entirely over-dressed in black headscarf, ankle-length skirts, embroidered waistcoat and leather boots
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“And do you think those kids,” he motioned up the boardwalk from where they sat, “have ever heard the word, No?” A tall lady in an immaculate skirt and waistcoat was followed haltingly by a boy and a girl
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soldier, who has found his waistcoat
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- "The waistcoat that
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This evening, so far proving to be much as any other, Mr Snickerty drew his fob from his waistcoat pocket and noted, with some satisfaction, that it was precisely just about nearly eight
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Mackintosh he wore a tweed suit with a waistcoat and a striped tie, all large and baggy to suit his overweight frame
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” He took hold of my wrist and pulled a large fob watch from his waistcoat pocket and proceeded to take my pulse
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tweedy suit with a waistcoat, but this time he was alone and carrying an attaché case
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He wore a brown leather waistcoat over a coarse woven cloth pair of trousers, tied at the middle with a leather strip
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Leaning against one wall was a large wagon-wheel, and handcuffed to this by his hands and feet, wearing only a rawhide waistcoat, a pair of cowboy chaps and a ten-gallon hat, was Detective Inspector Grunt
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Crosby smiled, flicking open his serviette and tucking one corner over the top of his waistcoat
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Crosby pulled his serviette from his waistcoat and wiped his lips
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Gena walked in red, high-heeled stilettos from the back of the hall, wearing a long, flowing, dusty, dry-as-a-bone waistcoat
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The driver, a typical Spanish working class man with a rugged unshaven sun beaten face, a leather cap tilted to the back of his head, and a waistcoat that had seen better days
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adjusting his red waistcoat as he made his way towards the gate
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Other horse and buggy teams were parked along the sidewalk while their owners, one dressed in a beige top hat and waistcoat, solicited tourists for rides
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“Alex?” Sean in a black outfit with a dark mushroom colored waistcoat stands at the door
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A few seconds later, he stands before me in a maroon shirt with a matching waistcoat, briefs and nothing else
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It was wearing a floppy hat and a loud stripy waistcoat, and had a sack face with holes for eyes and a twisted slit of a mouth
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They left the yard and rounded a group of derelict buildings, but their route was blocked by a lopsided figure in a floppy hat and a stripy waistcoat
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Boglehob slipped the Key back into his waistcoat, and then hobbled out of the shed
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I loved being Bassanio wearing nothing but turquoise tights that stopped a hand width below my navel, a tiny embroidered waistcoat that ended a hand width above the navel, soft felt pixie boots and a cheeky little cap with a feather
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Suddenly insecure and no longer the confident curator of fifteen minutes before, I raced back upstairs and replaced the tight trousers and daring little waistcoat with something sensible and uncontroversial
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She had chosen a long sleeved blouse, waistcoat, hot pants and mid thigh boots
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He’s wearing a dark gray, pinstriped suit and waistcoat
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He was dressed like a southern landowner, his crushed top hat in one hand and monocle hanging from his waistcoat
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He looked at the gold watch that he removed from his waistcoat pocket
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Krane wasn’t given much time to ponder the thought as the old man quickly finished reading the note, then placed it in his waistcoat pocket
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I looked at him for several moments, noting his unshaven face, his creased collar and cuffs, and the black jacket and waistcoat he wore
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One of the quarreling thieves would tie a container of blood under the jacket of his waistcoat and would put a special mark on the outside of his clothing that indicated the whereabouts of the hidden packet of blood
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She wore the casino's uniform of a maroon shirt and waistcoat which was
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The publisher put his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, leaned back in his chair, gazed with refreshing coolness at Papa who was very hot, and said that as trade went it was quite a good check and that he had sent one that very morning to another author--a Jena celebrity who employs his leisure writing books about the Universe--for ninety pfennings
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When the presents had been given, and Joey found himself staggering beneath a waistcoat Vicki had knitted him, and a pair of pink bed-socks Frau von Lindeberg had knitted him, and an empty photograph frame from Papa Lindeberg, and an empty purse from the son, and a plate piled miscellaneously with apples and nuts and brown cakes with pictures gummed on to them, he observed Frau von Lindeberg take her husband aside into the remotest corner of the room and there whisper with him earnestly and long
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The stone was a Tourmaline; medium green with purple marbling cut into the shape of a rosette, which matched the embroidered flowers on my gown and his waistcoat
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Marcus removed his waistcoat, showing his cream colored vest
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Two small pockets decorated the front of the vest and they were carefully embroidered with the same floral design of lavender and green that adorned his waistcoat buttons
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Where is she?" And throwing his hat to the footman, which the young man, having been till recently a prominent member of his village eleven, deftly caught, he gave a pull to his waistcoat, a twitch to his tie, wriggled his neck more comfortably into his collar, rubbed his hands, and was ready for anything
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the cloth-covered buttons on his black waistcoat were embroidered with small flowers that matched the lavender and green floral appliques sewn on the bottom hem of her wedding gown
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They needed the straight waistcoat and padded room of principles
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Dimly through Lucy's head floated thoughts: Seeing that Everard invariably spent his birthdays at The Willows, on that day last year at that hour Vera was sitting where she, Lucy, now was, with the kingcups glistening in front of her, and Everard tucking his table napkin into his waistcoat, and Chesterton waiting till he was quite ready to take the cover off the soup; just as Lucy was seeing these things this year Vera saw them last year; Vera still had three months of life ahead of her then, three more months of dinners, and Chesterton, and Everard tucking in his napkin
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stock had been starched into armor plate; his waistcoat had
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booted the red waistcoat once more
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He drew his wife up then pressed her face against his chest where she sobbed uncontrollably into his waistcoat
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Laughing, the mercenary shoved her viciously away as he pulled his own waistcoat off
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Soon a woman wearing a yellow waistcoat arrives, and in a loud voice announces that Alaska Airlines has cancelled its flight to Deadhorse because of adverse weather conditions, and concerns about the safety of the passengers and the plane
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A brightly multi-colored sleeveless waistcoat over a white silk shirt; bare midriff and white silk loose pantaloons tightening at the ankles
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He wore a well-cut, dark suit with a waistcoat that had a gold chain across it
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observed that it takes more than a plaid waistcoat to keep a check on your stomach
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The wine-shop was a corner shop, better than most others in its appearance and degree, and the master of the wine-shop had stood outside it, in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches, looking on at the struggle for the lost wine
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He was fashionably dressed and foppish, with his hair parted in the middle, well combed and pomaded, and wore a number of rings on his well-scrubbed fingers and a gold chain on his waistcoat
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"No holes, no spots, and quite respectable, although a little worn; and a waistcoat to match, quite in the fashion
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He wore a charming summer jacket of a fawn shade, light thin trousers, a waistcoat of the same, new and fine linen, a cravat of the lightest cambric with pink stripes on it, and the best of it was, this all suited Pyotr Petrovitch
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He had laid aside his coat and waistcoat; his shirt was open at the throat, as it used to be when he did that work; and even the old haggard, faded surface of face had come back to him
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drunk, had a loud and most unseemly laugh and only fancy--was without a waistcoat! One of the visitors sat straight down to the table without even greeting Katerina Ivanovna
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He moved away from the window, shut it, lighted the candle, put on his waistcoat, his overcoat and his hat and went out, carrying the candle, into the passage to look for the ragged attendant who would be asleep somewhere in the midst of candle-ends and all sorts of rubbish, to pay him for the room and leave the hotel
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Long ago great people lived here, and coming back from Court past midnight stood, huddling their satin skirts, under the carved door-posts while the footman roused himself from his mattress on the floor, hurriedly fastened the lower buttons of his waistcoat, and let them in
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The yellow columns of the Parthenon are to be seen at all hours of the day firmly planted upon the Acropolis; though at sunset, when the ships in the Piraeus fire their guns, a bell rings, a man in uniform (the waistcoat unbuttoned) appears; and the women roll up the black stockings which they are knitting in the shadow of the columns, call to the children, and troop off down the hill back to their houses
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`the bear-man' better than she did him, but though hurt, he concealed his anguish, for he hadn't the heart to insult a rival who kept a mine of chocolate drops in his waistcoat pocket, and a watch that could be taken out of its case and freely shaken by ardent admirers
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Bhaer, continuing to confess the young sinner, who stood upon the knee, exploring the waistcoat pocket
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He wore a black cloth waistcoat, a hair collar, grey trousers, and, all the year round, well-blacked boots, that had two parallel swellings due to the sticking out of his big-toes
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His waistcoat now never wanted lining, nor his shirt buttons, and it was quite a pleasure to see in the cupboard the night-caps arranged in piles of the same height
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Thus his cambric shirt with plaited cuffs was blown out by the wind in the opening of his waistcoat of grey ticking, and his broad-striped trousers disclosed at the ankle nankeen boots with patent leather gaiters
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At the sound of the bell, Theodore in a red waistcoat appeared on the steps; he came to open the door almost familiarly, as to an acquaintance, and showed her into the dining-room
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She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another!--and that other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married,--and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat!
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She groped in his waistcoat pocket, while he stood panting
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She knew exactly how his breast was shapen under the waistcoat, and she wanted to touch it
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She would gladly have gathered it up at this information, but Hareton beat her; he seized and put it in his waistcoat, saying Mr
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As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her
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there, than when under my own insipid handling! And now his waistcoat
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everything being now ready, he took his coat and waistcoat off; and at
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breeches of the same, white waistcoat and stockings, a jockey cap, with
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The day after that in which the scene we have just described had taken place on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, a man of about thirty or two and thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and accent of an Englishman, presented himself before the mayor of Marseilles
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He wore a vest of garnet-colored velvet, with buttons of cut gold; a silk waistcoat covered with embroidery; a Roman scarf tied round his neck; a cartridge-box worked with gold, and red and green silk; sky-blue velvet breeches, fastened above the knee with diamond buckles; garters of deerskin, worked with a thousand arabesques, and a hat whereon hung ribbons of all colors; two watches hung from his girdle, and a splendid poniard was in his belt
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`I've got a pill ready for 'im, though, next time 'e start yappin',' Crass continued as he drew a small piece of printed paper from his waistcoat pocket
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When the pipe was smoked out he knocked the bowl against the grate to get rid of the ash, and placed the pipe in his waistcoat pocket
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a three-cornered cap braided with gold, his curly white wig came down on to his shoulders, he had a chocolate-colored waistcoat with diamond buttons, and two large pockets to contain the bones that his mistress gave him at dinner
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Albert was impatient to see how he looked in his new dress—a jacket and breeches of blue velvet, silk stockings with clocks, shoes with buckles, and a silk waistcoat
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Crass slowly drew the Obscurer cutting from his waistcoat pocket, but after a moment's thought he replaced it, deciding to defer its production till a more suitable occasion
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The long garment beforementioned was unbuttoned and through the opening there protruded a vast expanse of waistcoat and trousers, distended almost to bursting by the huge globe of flesh they contained
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When Crass, Philpot, Easton and Bundy entered, the landlord, a well-fed, prosperous-looking individual in white shirt-sleeves, and a bright maroon fancy waistcoat with a massive gold watch-chain and a diamond ring, was conversing in an affable, friendly way with one of his regular customers, who was sitting on the end of the seat close to the counter, a shabbily dressed, bleary-eyed, degraded, beer-sodden, trembling wretch, who spent the greater part of every day, and all his money, in this bar
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And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his waistcoat heaving with windy arithmetic, made me vicious in my reticence
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And then fell to pulling off, not only his jacket and waistcoat, but his shirt too, in a manner at once light-hearted, business-like, and bloodthirsty
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' The speaker here suddenly drew from his waistcoat pocket a small glass bottle and held it out towards Misery, who shrank from it with horror as he continued: `I have here a most deadly poison
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Philpot realized this all the more because some of the buttons on his coat and waistcoat were missing
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He stood up to put on his coat and waistcoat, more helpless than ever
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After this he took from his cupboard the bank-notes and gold he had put there, thrust the one into the pocket of his trousers, and the other into that of his waistcoat, hastily tied up a small bundle of linen, and rushing towards the door, disappeared in the darkness of the night
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`Come to think of it,' continued Crass as he drew the Obscurer cutting from his waistcoat pocket, `I've got a little thing 'ere that I've been goin' to read to yer
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About two o'clock the following day a calash, drawn by a pair of magnificent English horses, stopped at the door of Monte Cristo and a person, dressed in a blue coat, with buttons of a similar color, a white waistcoat, over which was displayed a massive gold chain, brown trousers, and a quantity of black hair descending so low over his eyebrows as to leave it doubtful whether it were not artificial so little did its jetty glossiness assimilate with the deep wrinkles stamped on his features—a person, in a word, who, although evidently past fifty, desired to be taken for not more than forty, bent forwards from the carriage door, on the panels of which were emblazoned the armorial bearings of a baron, and directed his groom to inquire at the porter's lodge whether the Count of Monte Cristo resided there, and if he were within
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Pumblechook took me by both hands again, and communicated a movement to his waistcoat, which had an emotional appearance, though it was rather low down, "My dear young friend, rely upon my doing my little all in your absence, by keeping the fact before the mind of Joseph
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Once or twice Crass's heart began to beat quickly as he furtively watched the great man and saw him thrust his thumb and finger into his waistcoat pocket, but on each occasion Sweater withdrew his hand with nothing in it
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He averred that he had been watching Crass and Sweater and had seen the latter put his thumb and finger into his waistcoat pocket as he walked into the dining-room, followed by Crass
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"Did you never hear that? And the men used to go in on Sunday morning before the houses were open to buy a waistcoat or a trousers--moya! But Tricky Dicky's little old father always had a tricky little black bottle up in a corner
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He had no money in his possession when he was found by the policeman; all that his pockets contained being several pawn-tickets and a letter from his wife, which was not found until after he died, because it was in an inner pocket of his waistcoat
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When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body
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He then took from his waistcoat pocket a little paper and glanced at the headings he had made for his speech
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For, after I had made the monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family), and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence
