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Coat in sentence

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'Nowadays, it is true, with the said black coat, at the age of forty, a man has emoluments of one hundred thousand francs and the Blue Riband, like the Bishop of Beauvais.
'It is our turn, now,' he exclaimed, as he locked himself into his room, and flung off his coat:'What, Mademoiselle,' he wrote to Mathilde, 'it is Mademoiselle de La Mole who, by the hand of Arsene, her father's servant, transmits a letter couched in too seductive terms to a poor carpenter from the Jura, doubtless to play a trick upon his simplicity ...'And he transcribed the most unequivocal sentences from the letter he had received.
'What have you in the side pocket of your coat?'Mathilde asked him, delighted at finding a topic of conversation.
'Actually,' she said to herself, 'my passion for that poor boy lasted, in his eyes, only from one o'clock in the morning, when I saw him arrive by his ladder, with all his pistols in the side pocket of his coat, until eight.
In his confusion he had left everything behind, including the key, which was in the pocket of his coat.
'Sir,' said Julien, 'while they were altering this coat for me, I committed to memory the first page of today's _Quotidienne_.'
Julien could make out only the sleeves of his coat, which were black and close-fitting.
The men came up to Julien to search the pockets of his travelling coat.
After searching his coat, 'this is no diplomat,' said the priest: he moved away, and wisely.
One could admit him to a sort of intimacy: with that Cross and what is almost a layman's coat, one is exposed to cruel questions, and how is one to answer them?'
'I was an utter fool at Strasbourg, my thoughts never went beyond my coat collar.'Memories of Fouque kept recurring to his mind and left him in a more tender mood.
"Ridiculous formalities!" he grumbled, as he lifted his coat from the chair and kept it in both his hands for a little while, as if holding it out for the policemen's inspection.
"It's got to be a black coat," they said.
At that, K. threw the coat to the floor and said - without knowing even himself what he meant by it - "Well it's not going to be the main trial, after all."
The policemen laughed, but continued to insist, "It's got to be a black coat."
"I know that," said K. as he looked at the usher's civilian coat which, beside its ordinary buttons, displayed two gilded ones as the only sign of his office and seemed to have been taken from an old army officer's coat.
There were no coat hooks for them to use, and so they had placed their hats under the bench, each probably having followed the example of the others.
He sent the maid back with the reply that he was on his way, then he went to the wardrobe to change his coat, and in answer to Mrs. Grubach's gentle whining about the nuisance Miss Montag was causing merely asked her to clear away the breakfast things.
His face was flowing over with tears, and he wiped it dry on K.'s coat.
K., ..." one of them was saying, but K. had told the servitor to fetch his winter coat and said to the three of them, as the servitor helped him to put it on, "Please forgive me, gentlemen, I'm afraid I have no time to see you at present.
So K. turned the collar of his coat up and buttoned it up high under his chin.
Just then the deputy director came out of the adjoining room, smiled as he saw K. negotiating with the gentlemen in his winter coat, and asked, "Are you about to go out?""Yes," said K., standing more upright, "I have to go out on some business."
It would probably be much better to take off his winter coat again and, at the very least, try to win back the two gentlemen who were certainly still waiting in the next room.
Would you not like to take your coat off now?"K. had intended to stay for only a very short time, but the painter's invitation was nonetheless very welcome.
As he took off his winter overcoat and also unbuttoned his frock coat the painter said to him in apology, "I must have warmth.
"But before we talk about them, would you not like to take your coat off?
All the time the painter was speaking, K. was considering whether he should take off his coat, but he finally realised that, if he didn't do so, he would be quite unable to stay here any longer, so he took off his frock coat and lay it on his knee so that he could put it back on again as soon as the conversation was over.
He had hardly done this when one of the girls called out, "Now he's taken his coat off!" and they could all be heard pressing around the gaps in the planks to see the spectacle for themselves.
"The girls think I'm going to paint your portrait," said the painter, "and that's why you're taking your coat off."
Even while the painter was speaking those last words K. had laid his coat over his arm and had stood up.
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