shad-bellied

Rising from a little cabin boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief mate, and captain, and finally a shipowner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

There will be an old Hard-shell clock resurrected, with throat whiskers, and wearing a shad-bellied coat and flap breeches.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

No Southern silver-tongued orator of the old-time, string-tied, slouch-hatted, long - haired variety ever clung more closely to his official makeup than the English barrister clings to his spats, his shad-bellied coat and his eye-glass dangling on a cord.

Europe Revised 1910

There was a certain sad, plum-colored, shad-bellied coat that flashes athwart my memory in hideous recollection, which wrapped itself portentiously about my slim figure, to the great delectation of my young friends and companions, and to my corresponding misery.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

The shad-bellied coat was bad enough -- you could take that off, though -- but there was something worse that stayed on.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

Put him into a shad-bellied drab and he would still have retained traces of dudishness; a Chatham street outfit could hardly have unduded him.

The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869

Rising from a little cabin boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief mate, and captain, and finally a shipowner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Women will like some fellows, when men can't see no sort o 'reason why they should; and they liked this' ere Lommedieu, though he was kind o 'mournful and thin and shad-bellied, and hadn't nothin' to say for himself.

Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

In this Livingston Company many wore three-cornered hats, shad-bellied coats, shoe and knee buckles.

Margaret 1851