The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. From LearnThat.org. [James Lowell (1819-1891), American romantic poet, critic, editor and diplomat, from Democracy and Addresses.]
Look a you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are. From Wordnik.com. [White House fires back at Bush comments: 'We won'] Reference
Many, however, wore a felt "overcoat" -- or rather, "overskin," for there was no other garment underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
His overcoat will be the same material as his suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mob and Me] Reference
In the pocket of my overcoat was my scarf of office. From Wordnik.com. [A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen] Reference
When I got here the cape of my overcoat was a sheet of ice. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and memorials,] Reference
The overcoat was a good one, and relatively new; he'd be sore to lose it. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
His overcoat was a specious covering, and was not infrequently odorous of naphtha. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
She removes the little one's overcoat, which is wet from the rain, and wraps a shawl around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference
I had got ready long beforehand a good shirt, with white bone studs; my overcoat was the only thing that held me back. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from the Underground] Reference
Go back a century and you find people wondering intently what new kind of overcoat Viscount Petersham would wear this year. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Kaplan: Hot Celebrity Gossip!] Reference
That long, sporting overcoat which is down to your heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Passage] Reference
He objects to the cut of my overcoat which is unfortunately an English one. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy, an American novel] Reference
He pocketed the license, and picked up the overcoat, meaning to put it on in the hall while her ladyship was rearranging her hat. From Wordnik.com. [One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York] Reference
All I could see was the gray weave of Boris's overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Hat Shop Girls] Reference
His brown long overcoat made him look like an orphaned rat. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
Saniel felt the heat, and mechanically unbuttoned his overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I bought a navy cashmere overcoat there for less than 400 bucks. From Wordnik.com. [Posing a Rebirth of Cool] Reference
The overcoat will get thrown into a garbage bag and tossed aside. From Wordnik.com. [Upon Inspecting My Dead Mother's Closet] Reference
I'm just trying to figure out whether to pack my full-on overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
"If the heat is uncomfortable, will you not remove your overcoat?". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Off came the fur-necked overcoat, the cardigan, up and off the tanktop. From Wordnik.com. [None Of It Grace] Reference
K gasps when he gets the news, and seems to shrink into his black overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard] Reference
We recommend a camel blazer or overcoat, just like Dries and Michael Kors did. From Wordnik.com. [Refinery29.com: Fall 2010's Top Color Trends (PHOTOS)] Reference
After a little conversation, he asked me if I had seen that overcoat of Stephens's. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Trent reappeared, carrying an umbrella and with a man's overcoat thrown over his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He wore a cap and an overcoat so full that his form seemed smaller than I had expected. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Kennedy, clad in a dark overcoat with the collar turned up, climbed onto a flatbed truck. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Week] Reference
The father's scanty overcoat, the rather pale face of the little boy, all betokened poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She moved even further away from Victor, who still wore his black overcoat and red satin vest. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
Frank was dark-skinned, olive-skinned, and had on a flasher overcoat and hi-top tennis shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Running] Reference
Perhaps, on a return visit to Lewinsky's apartment, Tripp could lift the dress, throw her overcoat over it and walk out. From Wordnik.com. [Lewinsky Vs. Clinton] Reference
The video finds Hammons himself, in funky baseball cap and overcoat, meandering through Manhattan, kicking an empty pail. From Wordnik.com. [Stuck In The Middle] Reference
Carl Bensinger, a local lawyer who wore a business suit and black overcoat to ward off the rain, defined the third category. From Wordnik.com. [The Bluegrass Battle] Reference
At a recent wedding, Mitra shed her overcoat to reveal a form-fitting black miniskirt and black suede boots with soaring heels. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Inside] Reference
Oh, let's see he had the overcoat which would be bits of cloth and there was the corduroy blazer, the trousers and the torn underwear!. From Wordnik.com. [The Snowbank] Reference
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