Each one wore a kind of surcoat made of the skin of the elk, reaching from his neck to his knees, and answering the purpose of. From Wordnik.com. [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference
His surcoat was a bear-skin on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Gavlok, strip off your surcoat disguise and shield cover. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
He seemed to be important; his surcoat had fur trimming on it. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Paperarello bowed, put the nose in his surcoat, and rode away. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
He wore one, too, on the breast of his purple and gold surcoat. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
In the street he stopped to don the surcoat off a dead Crusader. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
The man wore some manner of thin white surcoat over his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Alain was dressed in a white linen surcoat and a white silk mantle. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The poison struck his surcoat harmlessly and bubbled away, steaming. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Dragging off his clinging silk surcoat, Sabin wrung it into the rushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
I have her badge on my sword-belt, and her colours on my surcoat and my cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
He quickly stripped off Jermayan's surcoat, trying to be as gentle as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Grimacing, he rubbed the top of his head, then wiped his slimy hand on his surcoat. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He saw a tall figure in a red surcoat with a red helmet shaped like a bishop's miter. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Blood shone its wild red, hiding the cross on the surcoat, dripping in thick gouts to the stones. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
His surcoat was ripped, showing the mail underneath, and she saw dark stains on the purple and gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Over his mail shirt de Verceuil wore a long crimson surcoat sewn with cloth-of-gold Maltese crosses. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The gorget is of edge-ringed mail, the surcoat is blazoned with a chevron between three leopard's faces. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Under that purple and gold surcoat the Frenchman was wearing mail armor from his toes to his fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The intersection of the limbs of the red cross on the Frank's white surcoat made a perfect spot to aim at. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
At the threshold, unhelmeted, stood the knight whose long surcoat was covered with the white eagles of Este. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
A silken surcoat, (2) too, the maid put on, which sword had never cut in any fray, of silken cloth of Libya. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Hear now about her weeds; enow of these she had; she wore a surcoat of silk of Azagoue, (3) noble and costly. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
The sun shone upon the gems and goldwork of their helmets, upon lances and pennons, upon buckler and embroidered surcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
De Puys, like Simon, wore a purple surcoat on which the three gold crowns of Gobignon were embroidered over and over again. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The purple surcoat that extended below his knees sparkled with dozens of embroidered repetitions of a design of three gold crowns. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The robe is represented as having had tight sleeves and a train, over which was worn a surcoat and mantle, with cords and tassels. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
In a candlelit alcove behind Manfred hung a painting of a red-bearded man in mail armor partly covered by a black and gold surcoat. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Roger wore a checkered surcoat from Italy, and French plate armor, and a Persian peaked cavalry helmet with an Arabian peacock plume. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
His handsome violet silk tunic reminded Simon that his own surcoat was travel-stained and that Thierry had not polished his mail in days. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
This represents a knight in a hauberk of mail covered by a surcoat, and drawing his sword slightly out of its sheath, pendent on his left. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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