At last I parted from him on his ‘brig,’ with the old swallow-tailed gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

Another jerked at the rear pockets of his swallow-tailed coat to pick out a thought there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

I should have liked the chance of catching a swallow-tailed butterfly for my collection. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and a sheath-knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

Franz decided to join neither party, as his one idea was to catch a swallow-tailed butterfly for his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

He wore a pair of blue pilot cloth trousers, a vest with brass buttons and an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

Princess, into a tame civilized gentleman, in a swallow-tailed coat, handing apples to a poor little Yankee girl!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

He wore a black, swallow-tailed coat, made, however, to set very loose upon his back, a black waistcoat, and black pantaloons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference

Chimney-pot hats, swallow-tailed coats, and pantaloons that fit nothing, came creeping in upon us, one after the other, while the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

That swallow-tailed emblem of a gallant nationality -- which, according to song and tradition, has the enviable distinction of having.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

And he had happened to bring along the blue swallow-tailed pennant of a naval commodore, which he ordered to be taken to the masthead of the Vincennes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842] Reference

Sir John had looked dashing in his new blue swallow-tailed coat, blue goldstriped trousers, gold-fringed epaulettes, ceremonial sword, and Nelson-era cocked hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

BURGEE (of unknown origin), a small three-cornered or swallow-tailed flag or pennant used by yachts or merchant vessels; also a kind of small coal burnt in engine furnaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

He was in evening dress: swallow-tailed coat and white tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna the Adventuress] Reference

Think of Paul wearing a blue swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusement: A Force in Christian Training] Reference

Several breeds, such as Finnikins and Turners, the swallow-tailed pigeon of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Papilio androcles, one of the largest and rarest known swallow-tailed butterflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

"A swallow-tailed kite," Knight said as the bird dropped suddenly into clearer view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference

So there he was, arrayed in jaunty cap, and a swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings] Reference

He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

The horse had left ear swallow-tailed and was branded with a Diamond Five on the right shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference

In very early boyhood, my Sunday suit was a swallow-tailed coat, and hat of the stove-pipe pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman] Reference

The edges are fringed throughout, and the extremity is sometimes swallow-tailed, and sometimes rounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

The Dwarf in his swallow-tailed coat and wearing a plug hat, and his face deeply furrowed with wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference

He wore a loose swallow-tailed coat with bright brass buttons, and pants which were several inches too short.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning His Way] Reference

The smallest details were visible -- the turrets, the terraces, the windows, and even the swallow-tailed vanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

He wore a suit of crimson velvet knee-breeches, and a little swallow-tailed coat with beautiful golden buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of Christmas Stories] Reference

David turned out in a new blue swallow-tailed coat, with metal buttons, of his own fabulous cut, in honor of the occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

It consisted of blue velvet knickerbockers, a white satin waistcoat, and a beautifully cut little swallow-tailed coat with pearl buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

He wore a swallow-tailed coat, with a waistcoat of white satin and fancy knee-breeches, and upon his feet were shoes with silver buckles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland] Reference

He looked as natural as the day I bade him good-bye at Pontiac, and was wearing the same old silk hat, swallow-tailed coat and plaid pants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference