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  • So it was, when the doom of fifty years of living death was uttered by Judge Scott, that Jim Hall, hating all things in the society that misused him, rose up and raged in the court-room until dragged down by half a dozen of his blue-coated enemies.

    The Sleeping Wolf 2010

  • Turns out we had one MRE bouncing off the walls and now floating in a sea of blue-coated turds.

    Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

  • According to reports, one of the birds had “a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings” attached to it, leading to suspicion that the bird had been sent by the U.S.,

    Iran Arrests Spy Pigeons At Their Uranium Plant | Disinformation 2008

  • Then one of the blue-coated bodyguards twisted his head as if working a cramp in his neck; his mouth dropped open when he saw them.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • In the early morning blue-coated farmers, and sometimes their sturdy barefoot wives, come to town carrying on either end of their shoulderpoles great round baskets of fresh dewy vegetables, or huge bundles of dried grass for fuel; caravans of tiny, neat-footed donkeys patter past, with enormous cylindrical bags of flour or rice crossed upon their backs, swayed down from excessive burdens borne too early.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • In the early morning blue-coated farmers, and sometimes their sturdy barefoot wives, come to town carrying on either end of their shoulderpoles great round baskets of fresh dewy vegetables, or huge bundles of dried grass for fuel; caravans of tiny, neat-footed donkeys patter past, with enormous cylindrical bags of flour or rice crossed upon their backs, swayed down from excessive burdens borne too early.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • On a recent Monday morning, inside an unremarkable, low-slung building in Yonkers, N.Y., blue-coated technicians conducted lab work.

    Meet the Sticklers 2010

  • "Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings," the source was quoted as saying of the second pigeon.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Two hundred blue-coated troops were in the village, blasting away into the tipis, while the Indians frantically tried, as they always did, to cover the retreat of their families.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • Turns out we had one MRE bouncing off the walls and now floating in a sea of blue-coated turds.

    Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

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