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    overcoats


    1. Along the now disused trail between Daiquiri and Siboney, overcoats and blankets were rotting by the wayside, and some of the “boys” told the ragged pacificos of this discarded treasure which was useless to the army


    2. The bitter cold gradually abated, but it remained cold enough for the men to wear their overcoats when outside the passenger car


    3. His mates back at college had decided that overcoats were in


    4. After years of putting on a macho front by venturing out in t-shirts and chinos in the depths of winter, fashionable overcoats were all the rage


    5. “Excuse me,” Gareth said to the old lady with the mottled complexion, “I wonder if you can point me towards any overcoats you might have


    6. After they put on their overcoats, Colling followed Hermann across the snow-covered yard to the stables


    7. Eberhard spotted an empty table close to the bandstand near the brass section which was sure to drown out any meaningful conversation, but who wanted to start cosy dialogue in a joint like this anyway? We had come without wearing overcoats to save on hat-check costs, a fact our waiter, a rotund little penguin, noticed immediately


    8. They wore white overcoats, winter hats and they both carried machine guns on their shoulders


    9. Sometimes when we were terribly bored, we wore khaki overcoats, green pants, and military boots before leaving home


    10. The two officers packed away their laptops and files, put on their overcoats and left the office for the car park where DS Burrows had his car

    11. He was the assistant foreman in the warehouse, at the manufacturers of overcoats and where Freda


    12. “It's OK for you, just you wait and see what happens when you have to start to use that awful material that they are calling lining for the military overcoats


    13. About twenty Japanese men wearing lab overcoats were sitting around the tables of the lounge, their face jittery, and looked up at the two women with fear and dread


    14. Kangaroo skins, for instance, might be used as ground sheets, blankets or overcoats, while the woomera -- used primarily to launch spears -- could also crack an enemy skull, or help with fire starting


    15. There stood two little boys around two and three years of age, dressed in winter overcoats and fur hats and mittens, their boots caked in snow


    16. They stepped into the dim foyer and removed their overcoats, the flame from the hearth casting a low glow into the room


    17. They passed men, women, and children busy about their days, dressed in heavy wool overcoats and furs


    18. hard hats and protective overcoats moved about the concrete slab


    19. And sheets, and stethoscopes, and overcoats of thick blue wool, And blue pyjamas


    20. We had taken off our overcoats

    21. drying out their soaked overcoats


    22. During the pause between speakers, the television network showed historic photographs of men, women and children dressed in long overcoats, carrying bundles over their shoulders, all with large yellow Stars of David pinned to their chests


    23. Innumerable overcoats of the quality prescribed hung empty all day in the corridors, but as the clock struck six each was exactly filled, and the little figures, split apart into trousers or moulded into a single thickness, jerked rapidly with angular forward motion along the pavement; then dropped into darkness


    24. The three men then removed their overcoats and


    25. The dead of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many


    26. frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of them all sides like the end of Loves old sweeeetsonnnng the poor men that have to be out all the night from their wives and families in those roasting engines stifling it was today Im glad I burned the half of those old Freemans and Photo Bits leaving things like that lying about hes getting very careless and threw the rest of them up in the W C 111 get him to cut them tomorrow for me instead of having them there for the next year to get a few pence for them have him asking wheres last Januarys paper and all those old overcoats I bundled out of the hall making the place hotter than it is that rain was lovely and refreshing just after my beauty sleep I thought it was going to get like Gibraltar my goodness the heat there before the levanter came on black as night and the glare of the rock standing up in it like a big giant compared with their 3 Rock mountain they think is so great with the red sentries here and there the poplars and they all whitehot and the smell of the rainwater in those tanks watching the sun all the time weltering down on you faded all that lovely frock fathers friend Mrs Stanhope sent me from the B Marche paris what a shame my dearest Doggerina she wrote on it she was very nice whats this her other name was just a p c to tell you I sent the little present have just had a jolly warm bath and feel a very clean dog now enjoyed it wogger she called him wogger wd give anything to be back in Gib and hear you sing Waiting and in old Madrid Concone is the name of those exercises he bought me one of those new some word I couldnt make out shawls amusing things but tear for the least thing still there lovely I think dont you will always think of the lovely teas we had together scrumptious currant scones and raspberry wafers I adore well now dearest Doggerina be sure and write soon kind she left out regards to your father also captain Grove with love yrs affly Hester x x x x x she didnt look a bit married just like a girl he was years older than her wogger he was awfully fond of me when he held down the wire with his foot for me to step over at the bullfight at La Linea when that matador Gomez was given the bulls ear these clothes we have to wear whoever invented them expecting you to walk up Killiney hill then for example at that picnic all staysed up you cant do a blessed thing in them in a crowd run or jump out of the way thats why I was afraid when that other ferocious old Bull began to charge the banderilleros with the sashes and the 2 things in their hats and the brutes of men shouting bravo toro sure the women were as bad in their nice white mantillas ripping all the whole insides out of those poor horses I never heard of such a thing in all my life yes he used to break his heart at me taking off the dog barking in bell lane poor brute and it sick what became of them ever I suppose theyre dead long ago the 2 of them its like all through a mist makes you feel so


    27. The American boys found a free massage table and laid Don Hume out on it, like a corpse bundled in overcoats, keeping him warm and dry and rested for as long as they could


    28. "And the other Montero, the 'my trusted brother' of the proclamations, the guerrillero—haven't I written that he was taking the guests' overcoats and changing plates in Paris at our Legation in the intervals of spying on our refugees there, in the time of Rojas? He will wash out that sacred truth in blood


    29. She had a confused impression of bare walls with torn wallpaper, room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms rows of blue overcoats and slouch hats hung on nails, a roaring fire, a long table


    30. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms

    31. Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers


    32. Glancing in at the door, Rostov saw that the sick and wounded were lying on the floor on straw and overcoats


    33. suffering, exhausted, and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers’ overcoats, the same sounds of firing which, though distant now, still aroused terror, and besides this there were the foul air and the dust


    34. But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers- but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles


    35. ’ he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage


    36. Poets are very fond of wearing the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of France


    37. But she persisted, because it was true that there was no room for anything else and nothing anywhere served any purpose, not the shirts hanging on the doorknobs or the overcoats for European winters squeezed into the kitchen cupboards


    38. "It was cold and we had no time to clothe ourselves with warm overcoats


    39. They were going home from school, some with their bags on their shoulders, others with leather satchels slung across them, some in short jackets, others in little overcoats


    40. in their overcoats: He is bringing them up, “making” men of the world of them

    41. “It may be treachery,” said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, and the glory that awaited him


    42. Glancing in at the door, Rostóv saw that the sick and wounded were lying on the floor on straw and overcoats


    43. There were still the same suffering, exhausted, and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers’ overcoats, the same sounds of firing which, though distant now, still aroused terror, and besides this there were the foul air and the dust


    44. But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers—but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles


    45. ” he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage


    46. At last our hero saw that his friend ran up to the office attendants who handed the clerks their overcoats, and hung about near them waiting for his in his usual nasty way


    47. Last Friday the gentlemen teachers kept their winter overcoats on all day, and shivered at that


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