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1  He put on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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2  He went into the pantry hastily and put on his overcoat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
3  She had preceded him into the pantry to help him off with his overcoat.
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4  Gabriel threw his overcoat and hat on a couch and crossed the room towards the window.
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5  I heard him talking to himself and heard the hallstand rocking when it had received the weight of his overcoat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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6  He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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7  He walked along quickly through the November twilight, his stout hazel stick striking the ground regularly, the fringe of the buff Mail peeping out of a side-pocket of his tight reefer overcoat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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8  He looked up at the pantry ceiling, which was shaking with the stamping and shuffling of feet on the floor above, listened for a moment to the piano and then glanced at the girl, who was folding his overcoat carefully at the end of a shelf.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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9  Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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10  A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his goloshes; and, as the buttons of his overcoat slipped with a squeaking noise through the snow-stiffened frieze, a cold, fragrant air from out-of-doors escaped from crevices and folds.
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