62 Verbs to Use for the Word overcoat

Old Grimes is dead, that dear old soul; We'll never see him more; He wore a great long overcoat, All buttoned down before.

Then, in an indolently casual way, she asked: "Who was that gentleman who rode by just now?" Her father glanced at her suspiciously as he took off his overcoat.

CHAPTER XIV A COOL ENCOUNTER On leaving the house Mershone buttoned his overcoat tightly up to his chin, for the weather was cold and raw, and then shot a quick glance around him.

They threw him an overcoat to put on, and he bowed like a hero, and quit the ring cage, and was met outside by the whole show management, and congratulated on having more nerve than any man alive.

If I had dreamed of this change in the weather I would have brought a heavier overcoat.

Every week night through November and December, save once, when he had to go into the far East to buy himself an overcoat, he was waiting to walk with her home.

"Does Mr. Jetson desire to take his coat off or not?" "Yes!" cried Jetson tempestuously, unbuttoning his own overcoat and tossing it to the ground.

The negro put his suitcase under the seat, hung his overcoat on the hook, and placed his hand-bag in the rack overhead; then with some difficulty he opened a window and sat down by it.

"It isn't cool enough for me to need an overcoat, is it?"

The winter day being mild, he did not trouble himself to don his uniform overcoat.

"Of course, I want the overcoat.

" Mr. Hatchard stood for some time in deep thought, and then, spurred on by a short, contemptuous laugh from his wife, went to the small passage and, putting on his overcoat and hat, stood in the parlor doorway regarding her.

A tired sigh now and then, a moan of weariness, and the soldier wrapped his army overcoat a little closer about him, curled up like a dog on a door-mat, and left the rest to fate.

He reached home toward evening, perhaps at about eight o'clockhow, and by what particular way he never recollectedbut, speedily undressing, he lay down on the couch, trembling like a beaten horse, and, drawing his overcoat over him, he fell immediately into a deep sleep.

For a moment Dr. Norris put Elizabeth on her feet again, but it was only while he removed his overcoat and wrapped it about her slight shivering body.

There he examined it, off and on, all day and much of the next morning, a light brown overcoat with tails, without discovering any excuse, far less a reason, for having spent twenty pounds on so worn a thing.

The deck officers of the liner sent their heavy overcoats for the use of the midshipmen, who, enveloped in these roomy garments, went out on deck to watch the pursuit of their own comrades.

"Shall I fetch your overcoat?" The telephone bell suddenly interrupted them.

I have seen some masters pay those unfortunate people the miserable overcoat which is their due; but others give them nothing at all, and do not even leave them the hours and Sundays granted to them by law.

" "What furniture is there in the study?" "There is a writing-table, a revolving-chair, two easy chairs, two large bookcases, and a wardrobe that Mr. Hurst keeps his overcoats and hats in.

But Father Orin was not quite satisfied, and moving a little farther over in the corner, where it was so dark that even Toby could not see what he was doing, he pulled off his poor old overcoat, from which the water was dripping, but which was still warm and partly dry on the inside.

Barton led him across, the overcoat dangling loosely from his shoulders, and he sat down on a wooden stool.

Then, as he felt he could not trust himself for another second, he rang the bell and ordered some tea to be brought, while he went to his room to leave his overcoat.

He is light on his feet, has a forward bend in his walk, as if trying to find something but never able to get at it; has a passion for an umbrella, which he carries both in fine and wet weather; likes a dark, thin, closely-buttoned overcoat, and used to love a down-easter wide-awake hat.

He offered the overcoat to the old gentleman's arms with the same air.

62 Verbs to Use for the Word  overcoat