Waistcoats in example sentence

Oh, my young friend, who else could have resisted the pleading of sixteen of our fairest sisters, and withstood their exhortations to subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket-handkerchiefs?''What's a moral pocket-ankercher?' said Sam; 'I never see one o' them articles o' furniter.'

More example sentences with word waistcoats

'And these idiotic open waistcoats – it's impossible!'

The young men wore long-waisted loose uniforms wide across the shoulders with white waistcoats, or else were in uniforms with black collars embroidered with laurel leaves – the emblem of the Ministry of Justice.

The chins of the other members of the jury went slowly up and down in their waistcoats in sign of approval.

The young beaux were strutting about in the pit, showing in the opening of their waistcoats their pink or applegreen cravats, and Madame Bovary from above admired them leaning on their canes with golden knobs in the open palm of their yellow gloves.

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