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From one shelf he took out a small metal box and from another a test tube, placing the test tube in his waistcoat pocket, and the small box in his coatpocket, with excessive care.
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I listened at the window attentively before I ventured on taking my lantern out of my coatpocket.
A Rogue's Life Wilkie Collins 1856
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All this time he was fumbling among the papers in his coatpocket.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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One day Mr. Stubmore called him into his own countinghouse, where stood a gentleman, with one hand in his coatpocket, the other tapping his whip against his boot.
Night and Morning, Volume 2 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Haggisland, where his presence inspired such a fury of loyalty and where the most famous man of the country -- the Baron of Bradwardine -- coming on board the royal yacht, and finding a glass out of which Gorgius had drunk, put it into his coatpocket as an inestimable relic, and went ashore in his boat again.
The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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We have all of us read with delight that story of the King’s voyage to Haggisland, where his presence inspired such a fury of loyalty and where the most famous man of the country — the Baron of Bradwardine — coming on board the royal yacht, and finding a glass out of which Gorgius had drunk, put it into his coatpocket as an inestimable relic, and went ashore in his boat again.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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a gentleman, with one hand in his coatpocket, the other tapping his whip against his boot.
Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Be that as it may, President Lincoln drew a large red silk handkerchief from his coatpocket, with which he wiped his face vigorously.
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