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Examples
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The fur-coated chauffeurs bulked dimly in their seats.
Chapter II 2010
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Patrons range from lawyers and office workers to European tourists and fur-coated women.
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They are threaded through with magic-realist sequences (fur-coated Paula Wilcox as police chief's wife meeting a filicidal priest on Mount Ararat or hovering above the stage like a pantomime Wendy) on Liz Ascroft's stunningly poetic double half-moon set.
Canary Clare Brennan 2010
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At a Surrealist-art show in the 1950s in Houston, where Donald Barthelme grew up, the writer saw a small fur-coated work that he never forgot.
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Andreas Ryff, a merchant, bearded and fur-coated, is coming back to his home in Baden; he writes in a letter to his wife that he has visited thirty markets and is troubled with saddle burn.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Andreas Ryff, a merchant, bearded and fur-coated, is coming back to his home in Baden; he writes in a letter to his wife that he has visited thirty markets and is troubled with saddle burn.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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"But he did tell me a tale last night about a gentleman who boarded a night coach and wiled away the hours talking to a fur-coated gentleman beside him, only to discover, when dawn came, that his travelling companion was a performing bear."
The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996
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Even the prowling, fur-coated Lucky had yowled at the bedroom window, demanding entry.
Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992
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The dire wolves had the same narrow muzzles, alert, pointed ears, and fur-coated bodies and tails of normal wolves.
The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991
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Silhouetted in the flare was the fur-coated figure of a big man who must have caught the full force of it and been reduced instantly to a cloud of atoms that were free to go as they pleased.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988
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