1 The duke shed his coat and said he was all right now.
2 Jim said he'd had it there a long time, to coat it over so and make a ball of it.
3 We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 4 Jim said he reckoned the people in that house stole the coat, because if they'd a knowed the money was there they wouldn't a left it.
5 He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arm, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags.
6 But he had to have it; Tom said he'd got to; there warn't no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his inscription to leave behind, and his coat of arms.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 7 THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come.
8 So whilst me and Jim filed away at the pens on a brickbat apiece, Jim a-making his'n out of the brass and I making mine out of the spoon, Tom set to work to think out the coat of arms.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 9 They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.