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  • Ericson drew a deep breath, stretching a little under his duffle-coat.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Carla 2007

  • Ericson drew a deep breath, stretching a little under his duffle-coat.

    Favourite fictional endings Carla 2007

  • He was wearing a stout duffle-coat over his grubby jeans and a woollen hat with a pom-pom, and was kneeling beside the bed in front of the window, plunging his dibber into the soil and planting bulbs.

    The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988

  • A loud clang as the duffle-coat dropped the jemmy and ran into the blackness of a side-turning, vanishing long before the beat man was anywhere near.

    Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

  • I didn't ask for much: some biscuits, a duffle-coat, some petrol and a ride in the Jeep as far as the ruined military depot.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • An insider tells me that the casting notes described Ben Leapman as a "friendly, duffle-coat wearing journalist, mid-thirties".

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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