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1  He spent a week meditating whether or not he should also buy an overcoat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  He wore a silk hat and a rich soft overcoat with a fur collar; and he smiled at Jurgis with benignant sympathy.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
3  He was just out of the hospital, and desperately sick-looking, and with a helpless arm; also he had no overcoat, and shivered pitifully.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  He had no overcoat, and no place to go, and two dollars and sixty-five cents in his pocket, with the certainty that he could not earn another cent for months.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  A man cannot go about in midwinter in Chicago with no overcoat and not pay for it, and Jurgis had to walk or ride five or six miles back and forth to his work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  The man in livery had moved silently toward them; Master Freddie took off his hat and handed it to him, and then, letting go of Jurgis' arm, tried to get out of his overcoat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
7  They would sleep with all their clothes on, including their overcoats, and put over them all the bedding and spare clothing they owned; the children would sleep all crowded into one bed, and yet even so they could not keep warm.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
8  This was child's play for him, and he got a dollar and seventy-five cents a day for it; on Saturday he paid Aniele the seventy-five cents a week he owed her for the use of her garret, and also redeemed his overcoat, which Elzbieta had put in pawn when he was in jail.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20