coat-sleeve

From shoulder to wrist of the crossed arms, the coat-sleeve, blue flannel shirt and undershirt were ripped in rags, while the arms themselves were terribly slashed and streaming blood.

The Love-Master 2010

My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb.

Sole Music 2010

“Splendid!” said the young man, flicking a speck of dust from his coat-sleeve.

Kindle-licious on Wodehouse’s Psmith: Love is an Umbrella | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

‘What should you say,’ said Mr. Pickwick, laying the forefinger of his left hand upon my coat-sleeve, and looking at me with his head thrown back, and a little on one side, — ‘what should you say if I confessed that after reading your account of yourself and your little society, I had come here, a humble candidate for one of those empty chairs?’

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

‘What should you say,’ said Mr. Pickwick, laying the forefinger of his left hand upon my coat-sleeve, and looking at me with his head thrown back, and a little on one side, — ‘what should you say if I confessed that after reading your account of yourself and your little society, I had come here, a humble candidate for one of those empty chairs?’

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

He pulled up his coat-sleeve — “Is that her name?” he said.

Roundabout Papers 2006

I felt him pull at something that clung to my coat-sleeve, and then I saw he held a little, wriggling red demon by the tail — the little creature bit and fought and tried to get at his hand — and in a moment he tossed it carelessly behind a counter.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Not that she worried me with questions, nor openly regarded me with any unusual meaning, but that I knew she was watching slyly whenever I took a spoon up; and every hour or so she managed to place a pan of water by me, quite as if by accident, and sometimes even to spill a little upon my shoe or coat-sleeve.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

With quick sympathy Eleanor felt this, and hardly put her fingers on his coat-sleeve.

Barchester Towers 2004

He jumped to his feet, and his coat-sleeve swept the dust off the entire length of the ledge in front of him.

Australia Felix 2003