Her voice was muffled against his kerseymere frock coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gamble]
He rapped with the knuckles of his left hand on his white kerseymere waistcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Their minds were haunted by a spirit in kerseymere in the evening they walked together in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
It is healthy to hate a bundle of broadcloth, kerseymere, buttons, and brass, and it's my delight by day and dream by night. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870] Reference
The Earl of Barfield stood at the lodge gate on a summer afternoon attired in a wondrously old-fashioned suit of white kerseymere and a peaked cap. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
She was forever telling him he should dress more stylishly, and the dark green kerseymere coat had been the first success in her long and difficult campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
And his wife took care that his rich red hood, kerseymere small-clothes, and black silk stockings upon calves of dignity, were such that his congregation scorned the surgeons all the way to Beverley. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
At least, he thought grimly, he had been wearing his good kerseymere coat for his abortive visit to Bautista, which had served to save the coat from the thieves and to save Sharpe from Lucille's wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Goethe, in top boots, light kerseymere breeches, redingote and loose. From Wordnik.com. [A Ward of the Golden Gate] Reference
Cobbett at the time had on a remarkably dirty pair of old drab kerseymere breeches. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3] Reference
I brought him a new pair of fine, drab-colored kerseymere trousers that had never been worn. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
"What! him in the kerseymere breeches and green jacket?" said I. "The same," answered Gordon. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
I brought him a new pair of fine, drab-coloured kerseymere trowsers that had never been worn. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Backwoods] Reference
The man has got on a blue coat and kerseymere leggings; he has black whiskers, and a reddish face. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Williams, you stole a lot of kerseymere from a store, and ran off with it -- a most pernicious crime!. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
The waistcoat was of toilenet, a pretty piece, the trousers of fine kerseymere, and the coat sat extraordinarily well. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
You could smother your neck in a stock, wear a high-waisted swallow-tail coat, kerseymere continuations and silk stockings. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
There had entered upon the down from another direction several battalions of foot, in white kerseymere breeches and cloth gaiters. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
His dress, when in the house, is a gray surtout, kerseymere stuff waistcoat, with an under one faced with some material of a dingy red. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Virginia] Reference
A blue coat, with metal buttons, ample laps, and pockets outside, with a handsome buff kerseymere waistcoat, formed his costume on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference
Mr. Scully had a brand-new blue coat and brass buttons, buff waistcoat, white kerseymere tights, pumps with large rosettes, and pink silk stockings. From Wordnik.com. [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference
He walked quickly, though he was tired and hot; tall, upright, and thin, in a grey parsonical suit, on whose black kerseymere vest a little gold cross dangled. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
Desire the tailor in the Kärntnerstrasse to get lining for trousers for me, and to make them long and without straps, one pair to be of kerseymere and the other of cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2] Reference
Desire the tailor in the Kaerntnerstrasse to get lining for trousers for me, and to make them long and without straps, one pair to be of kerseymere and the other of cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826]
But the search was vain; there was the tunic aforesaid, there was a smart-looking kerseymere waistcoat; but the most important article of all in a gentleman's wardrobe was still wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference
After some time the parson's single servant, a middle-aged, slovenly man, in a loose frock, and buff kerseymere nondescripts, opened the gate, and informed me that his master was at home. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
A white kerseymere waistcoat, and nankeen pantaloons, three inches too short, but which were prevented by straps from slipping up to the knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference
"My dear brethren," he said, with eyes upturned to the ceiling, his stubby fingers interlaced over his waistcoat of fawn kerseymere, "I am much perplexed and disheartened!. From Wordnik.com. [Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead] Reference
"There are certain moments," said Tomlinson, looking pensively down at his kerseymere gaiters, "when we are like the fox in the nursery rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
The kerseymere upon their tails. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense] Reference
(When clothed in silk and kerseymere). From Wordnik.com. [Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense] Reference
"You see that man with the drab kerseymere coat?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
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