black-coated

Today there are Jews like Karl Marx, both on the right, such as the fur-hatted, black-coated brigade that love Yasser Arafat, and also on the left, like your Kaufman MP.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Leslie Coons with the Austin Humane Society said that black-coated animals spend the longest amount of time at the Austin shelter.

Adiós, Guantánamo 2008

As we came to this verse, I chanced to look up from my book towards the swarm of black-coated pensioners: and amongst them — amongst them — sate Thomas Newcome.

The Newcomes 2006

“Would you like to look at the paper, sir?” here interposed the stout gentleman (it had a flaming article against the order of the black-coated gentleman who was travelling with them in the carriage), and Pen thanked him and took it, and pursued his reverie, without reading two sentences of the journal.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Black-hatted, black-coated, cadaverous, expressionless, the survivor is left watching the train rage past, every face in every window as blank and pitiless as his own.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

And as for Oriel, he has not even the benefit of purgatory, which he would accord to his neighbor Ebenezer; while old Slocum pronounces both to be a couple of humbugs; and Mr. Mole, the demure little beetle-browed chaplain of the little church of Avemary Lane, keeps his sly eyes down to the ground when he passes any one of his black-coated brethren.

Our Street 2006

Instead of ‘showing up’ the parsons, are we indulging in maudlin praises of that monstrous black-coated race?

The Book of Snobs 2006

The mingling of black-coated men and bright ladies gave a charming appearance to the groups as seen by Faith and her brother, the whole spectacle deriving an unexpected novelty from the accident of reaching their eyes through interstices in the tracery of green leaves, which added to the picture a softness that it would not otherwise have possessed.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Among the varieties of the Snob Clerical, the University Snob and the Scholastic Snob ought never to be forgotten; they form a very strong battalion in the black-coated army.

The Book of Snobs 2006

Notwithstanding the regularity of his tread, there was caution in it, as in that of one who mentally feels his way; and despite the fact that it was not a black coat nor a dark garment of any sort that he wore, there was something about him which suggested that he naturally belonged to the black-coated tribes of men.

Wessex Tales 2006