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    surcoat


    1. his laces and pulling on his surcoat


    2. some of the dust on his surcoat


    3. rushed to collect his surcoat and join him


    4. breeches, but dispensed with a surcoat due to the heat of


    5. daisies, and Richard in his finest breeches and a surcoat of


    6. His opponent"s surcoat boar the crest of a blood red dragon and his armor was finely made


    7. Over all they put the silken surcoat with the royal lion worked in gold upon the breast, and they girt him with a broad gold-buckled belt which supported a jewel-hilted broadsword in a cloth-of-gold scabbard


    8. Three of the four were down, dying in their own blood, and the fourth was bleeding from half a dozen wounds, stumbling in headlong retreat as he parried frantically, when Conan's spur caught in the surcoat of one of the fallen men


    9. And at their head, the spies swore, rode a giant figure in black armor, with the royal lion of Aquilonia worked in gold upon the breast of his rich silken surcoat


    10. The men reacted quickly––one disappearing back the way he had come and the other following us, his green and grey surcoat rippling past the new foliage

    11. It was very smart: soft leather boots, blue stockings, tight tunic and a surcoat with the Gascoigne coat of arms


    12. He had taken off his smart surcoat and was wearing it round his waist with the arms tied in front


    13. Over his armour he wore a surcoat or cassock of what seemed to be the finest cloth of gold, all bespangled with glittering mirrors like little moons, which gave him an extremely gallant and splendid appearance; above his helmet fluttered a great quantity of plumes, green, yellow, and white, and his lance, which was leaning against a tree, was very long and stout, and had a steel point more than a palm in length


    14. That afternoon they took Don Quixote out for a stroll, not in his armour but in street costume, with a surcoat of tawny cloth upon him, that at that season would have made ice itself sweat


    15. They put the surcoat on him, and on the back, without his perceiving it, they stitched a parchment on which they wrote in large letters, "This is Don Quixote of La Mancha


    16. Her only garment was a sleeveless surcoat,


    17. The earl had been wearing a distinctive purple robe and a black velvet surcoat


    18. His father bowed several times, put on a surcoat and offered Edmund a cup of ale


    19. surcoat, with fleurs-de-lis on a blue background and heraldic lions on red


    20. Sir Gerald had a heavy wool surcoat and Lady Maud a fur cloak

    21. ” A head taller than Ser Raymun and almost of a height with Dunk, Ser Lyonel wore a cloth-of-gold surcoat bearing the crowned stag of House Baratheon, and carried his antlered helm under his arm


    22. Blood followed, seeping through the rings of his mail to redden his surcoat


    23. The old knight stood outside the tower door, wearing his mail and plate beneath a long, woolen surcoat that age had turned more yellow than white


    24. ” The old knight wore mail and plate beneath his yellowed surcoat


    25. On shield and surcoat and horse trappings he bore the twin towers of Frey


    26. A few drops of rain began to fall as Bulwer was carried away, darkening his surcoat where they fell


    27. Above the mail was a short surcoat of black, but broidered on the


    28. He was tall, lean, and lithe, yet wide across the shoulders in his cream surcoat with the red Lady’s Mirror emblem of his order on the chest


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    "surcoat" definitions

    a loose outer coat usually of rich material


    a tunic worn over a knight's armor