"Topcoat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... during breakfast on the following morning. His colorful costume had given way to European clothes, except for a tarboosh. He wore a topcoat. ...
— The Egyptian Cat Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... his topcoat, and he reddened a little with the exertion. "Oh, grapes?" he said; "I took them this afternoon. I saw them standing ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... unrivalled nerve and aplomb, I was hesitating—whether to call on Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, knowing that her thick-headed husband was in hoc for debt—when the door of her house crashed open and that old scoundrel, Lord Steyne, came wildly down the steps, his livid face blood-streaked, his topcoat on his arm and a dreadful look in his eye. The world knows the rest as I learned it half an hour later at the greengrocer's, where the Crawleys owed an inexcusably large bill. Then the Duchess de Langeais—but all ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... He was dressed in a long black topcoat, high collar and string tie. The clicking noise was explained when he rubbed his long white hands together, making the knuckles pop ...
— The End of Time • Wallace West
... sympathized with him—he had no topcoat or umbrella—or whether I was guided by Fate I know not, but as he spoke I determined to give up my dreary vigil for that night. Pardieu! but certainly it was ...
— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer
... length engaged his wandering fancy. The stable's old swinging sign—a carefully painted fop with flowing side whiskers and yellow topcoat swiftly driving a spirited horse to a neat red-wheeled run-about—had been replaced by First-Class Garage. Of its former activities remained only three or four sedate horses to be driven by conservatives; and Starling Tucker, who lived, ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson |
