At the corner of her vision, she thought she saw a dark-coated figure move toward the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [War for the Oaks]

The street was almost empty, only a few dark-coated figures on the sidewalks turning to stare after the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

She had barely taken two steps into the living room when she saw a dark-coated figure standing beside the fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of Stone]

The dark-coated German Shepherd dog Rin Tin Tin made his first film in 1923 and was the world's biggest box-office draw by 1926.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-28] Reference

It is possible that these might even be improved through use of the white or cream-colored seed rather than the dark-coated seed now used.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 Food Use and Nutritive Value] Reference

Because he was dark-coated as Triell had been, and not much bigger than my lost brother, I felt I had known the smallpup for longer than a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promise of the Wolves] Reference

Even Wolfie with his sharp sight could barely make out the dark-coated figures against the black of the serried trunks, and he wondered if the lady, too, was a magician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Leicester races on that cold autumn day turned out to be as busy as a well-smoked beehive, with only a scattering of dark-coated figures trudging about doggedly, head-down to the biting wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

All else would be there to follow and commemorate — soldiers, sailors, foreign princes, half-masted bunting, tolling bells, and above all the surging, great, dark-coated crowd, with perhaps a simple sadness here and there deep in hearts beneath black clothes put on by regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Chancery] Reference

And then the dark-coated troops seemed to be driven back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Storm] Reference

A dark-coated gentleman on a good family horse solves the important question -- 'Which way?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

Tom Washball, Mr. Wake, Mr. Fyle, Mr. Fossick, and several dark-coated horsemen and boys were congregated around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

All dogs, but particularly dark-coated breeds, need some protection from the sun on warm days to prevent them from overheating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crookston Times Homepage RSS] Reference

'There's a man down!' exclaimed a groom, who formed one of the group, as a dark-coated rider and horse measured their length on a pasture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

Again, a little nearer, were some of the persevering ones -- men who still hold on in the forlorn hopes of a check -- all dark-coated, and mostly trousered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

After sable was hunted to extinction in Finland, the word was applied to any dark-coated fur animal, such as the marten, which are found in the area to this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

"The best part is I get to hang out with Marley," she adds of her research partner, a dark-coated, mixed-breed former shelter dog who's now part of the therapy program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The grand-stand, with its pretty girls and gowns, and waving pennants, and dark-coated students, resembled a huge mosaic of many colors, moving and flashing in the sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Pitcher] Reference

But around the bend came a procession which told plainly enough what had happened; a procession of boats filled with dark-coated provincial soldiers, a few white-coats, many women and children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

Still the tall horsemen, towering above their dark-coated antagonists, moved here and there, cutting their way as best they could amid the mass, who yielded as they advanced, only to close again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Commanders] Reference

The light was getting worse at every moment in the shadows beneath the elm, but as a dark-coated figure leant for a moment against the trunk of the very tree up which he sat a thrill of surprise passed through him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Danger]

All else would be there to follow and commemorate -- soldiers, sailors, foreign princes, half-masted bunting, tolling bells, and above all the surging, great, dark-coated crowd, with perhaps a simple sadness here and there deep in hearts beneath black clothes put on by regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

Along the narrow bank of shingle at the foot of the cliffs flocks of dark-coated sheep and goats wander in search of such scant herbage as may be found along the water's edge, and many native boats lie along the banks loading the stone extracted by the quarrymen, who look like flies on the face of the rock high above you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt] Reference

Railways and fox-hunting make most people punctual, and in less than five minutes from the halting of the hounds by the Windmill, the various roads leading up to it emit dark-coated grooms, who, dismounting, proceed to brush off the mud sparks, and rectify any little derangement the horses or their accoutrements may have contracted on the journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference