Coat
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So he ends up in the army but after a spell in the cooler for insubordination he escapes by nicking the car and
coat
of an army scientist along with, inadvertently, secret tank drawings.
Kangaroos appear on the country’s
coat
of arms, on its coins, on its sporting uniforms, and on the aircraft flown by Australia’s most popular airline.
The Two Faces of Vladimir PutinRussia’s split personality – symbolized by its Tsarist
coat
of arms, a two-headed eagle – has been on open display recently.
Rudyard Kipling got his arithmetic right in 1886:No proposition Euclid wrote,No formulae the text-books know,Will turn the bullet from your coat,Or ward the tulwar’s downward blowStrike hard who cares – shoot straight who can –The odds are on the cheaper man.
Indeed, it has been demonstrated that non-conscious environmental cues and symbols – the white
coat
or the diploma on the wall – can “prime” a patient to experience improvement.
The reason, as it was explained to me back in 2009, was that the core of the ACA was identical to the plan that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had proposed and signed into law in that state in 2006: “ObamaCare” would be “RomneyCare” with a new
coat
of paint.
But the push has been a source of unexpected controversy, with many predicting little more than business as usual with a
coat
of green paint.
We shall soon see whether there is substance to the initiative, or whether it is just a
coat
of fresh paint on an old and tired idea.
This challenge has been particularly difficult because of the nature of the virus, particularly its ability to integrate itself into the genome of host cells, to readily mutate, and to conceal that part of its outer
coat
that would induce protective antibodies.
At a time when partisan divisions are undermining America’s economic leadership, China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia should raise a question: If push comes to shove in the South China Sea, will the US find allies in its corner, or will they just be holding Uncle Sam’s
coat?
The entrepreneur might buy his wife a new fur
coat
or his workers a new production plant.
Still, it is painfully clear that Brexit is a defeat for the idea of Europe – that metaphysical chimera, that geopolitical Harlequin’s
coat
of many colors.
Levin meanwhile, in trousers but without
coat
or waistcoat, was pacing up and down his room, perpetually putting his head out at the door and glancing up the corridor.
It will all "shape itself'!'The fact of the matter was that when Levin told his old servant Kuzma to get his things ready, Kuzma had duly brought his dress coat, waistcoat and what else he considered necessary.
A handsome head-waiter, his thick hair greased with pomatum and parted from the nape upward, dressed in a swallow-tail coat, with a wide lawn shirt-front and a bundle of charms dangling on his rotund stomach, with his hands in his pockets, his eyes screwed up contemptuously, was answering a bystander's questions in a severe tone.
This hotel had already reached this stage: everything – the soldier in a dirty uniform smoking a cigarette at the front door, acting as a hall-porter, the dismal and unpleasant ornamental cast-iron staircase; the free and easy waiter in a dirty dress coat, the general room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers decorating the table, the dust and slovenliness everywhere, mingled with a kind of modern, self-satisfied railway-induced state of bustle.
Yashvin emptied another glass of brandy into the sparkling water, drank it, and then rose, buttoning his
coat.
The attendant, an old man, helped him off with his overcoat, recognized him and, addressing him as 'Your Excellency,' suggested that he need not take a ticket for his coat, but should merely call for 'Theodore' when he wanted it.
'You might be a diplomatist, an artist, or anything of that kind.''Yes, as soon as I returned home I put on a black coat,' Vronsky replied with a smile, slowly taking out his opera-glasses.
Oblonsky was wearing raw hide shoes, bands of linen wound round his feet instead of socks, a pair of tattered trousers and a short
coat.
Crows were flying to the fields, and a barefooted boy was already driving the horses toward an old man, who had got up from beneath his
coat
and sat scratching himself.
She began thinking that she would have to move into another house in Moscow for the winter, have the drawing-room furniture re-covered, and a new winter
coat
made for the eldest girl.
He, as well as the other men, had with the ladies' permission taken off his coat, and his large handsome figure in white shirt-sleeves, his ruddy perspiring face and impetuous movements, stamped themselves on the memories of the onlookers.
Having finished his speech the Governor left the hall, and the noblemen, noisily, vivaciously, some of them even rapturously, followed him out with enthusiasm, and stood around him as he was putting on his fur
coat
and talking in a friendly way with the Marshal of the Province.
'But put on a morning coat, so that you can call on the Countess Bol on the way.''Is it absolutely necessary then?''Yes, absolutely!
I gave in a separate report,' Katavasov called out from the next room, where he was changing his
coat.
You yourself said "Give your
coat
when they would take your cloak..."!
While she was talking to the porter, Michael the coachman, rosy and cheerful, came up in his smart blue
coat
with a watch-chain, evidently proud of having carried out his errand so well, and handed her a note.
Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development – the terms that had superseded these beliefs – were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur
coat
for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he must inevitably perish miserably.
But the six trams were empty, and he followed them without cracking his whip, his legs stiffened by rheumatism; while the great yellow horse went on of itself, pulling heavily between the rails beneath a new gust which bristled its
coat.
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