Only yesterday my year 7s were falling about watching two of their number lying on the floor in front of the whiteboard, fooling about under a "gaberdine". From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Shall I leave this gaberdine of thine so long on my body?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The wind was blowing and it blowed that lint on us, on those gaberdine coats. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George and Tessie Dyer, March 5, 1980. Interview H-0161. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I was bought a navy gaberdine raincoat when I was about six with plenty of room to grow into. From Wordnik.com. [Harbingers] Reference
An ankle-length gaberdine or oilskin tarpaulin worn by deep-sea herring fishermen in Arbroath and publicans in Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [The Meaning of Liff]
Next he produced a long darkish grey gaberdine raincoat, which he put on although the weather was as good as the forecast. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
Ostap, abandoning all efforts, stripped off his gaberdine and lay down upon the floor without a thought of begging for mercy. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba] Reference
Asked Al – Rashid, “Where is thy gaberdine, 220 and where are thy waistcloth and girdle and where be the rest of thy raiment?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He was an un - shaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
The conversation stopped as Irina emerged from the bathroom wearing a black gaberdine skirt and a silk blouse open to an amber necklace. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
“Your wisdom may guess, by looking on my gaberdine,” answered the Bohemian, pointing to his dress, which was covered with seeds of hay. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
But the pity was, that the only thing poor Peter had was a grey gaberdine with more holes in it than there are gold pieces in a Jew's pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
The first thing I noticed as we entered the Old City through the Jaffa gate was that there were a lot of men in top hats and gaberdine walking around. From Wordnik.com. [The Tour-Bus Diaries: Visiting Jim Crow in his Bethlehem Condo] Reference
The man wore a gaberdine raincoat and hat which made him look like he'd stepped out of a 1940's movie, but they did not look like an affectation on him. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
His Imperial Majesty's disguise was complete, consisting as it did of an aquiline nose of considerable size, and a secondhand gaberdine of primitive cut. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. From Wordnik.com. [The Tempest] Reference
"Your wisdom may guess, by looking on my gaberdine," answered the. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
He lost his hat; the tails of his open gaberdine flew behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference
So he threw off his clothes and she invested him in a gaberdine and. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Panurge, pulling off his gaberdine and mystical accoutrements, replied. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
He did as she bade him, upon which she garbed him in a gaberdine and a bonnet and laid him in. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
He spread out the skirts of his gaberdine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Would Be King] Reference
He was old, and his woollen gaberdine still reeked of the stinking artemisia of the mountain passes. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
So saying, he was turning his mule's head away, when the Palmer, in his turn, took hold of his gaberdine. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Lor ', Peter! "she added, as her eye fell on her brother," do go and take off that horrid gaberdine and them boots. From Wordnik.com. [White Lilac; or the Queen of the May] Reference
Frankish elegance which the depth of his potations made unsteady, seized the landlord by the breast of his gaberdine. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
Semite in his black gaberdine and low-crowned hat is now only an occasional figure on the Jerozolimska and Nowy Swiat. From Wordnik.com. [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference
I promised, as the price of your admission, to hide me under his bearish gaberdine, and prompt him in the hour of need. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
My, best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
As he spoke he gave the boots to Peter, who was now engaged in dragging up a leather purse from some great depth beneath his gaberdine. From Wordnik.com. [White Lilac; or the Queen of the May] Reference
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