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  • This time it was a smartly-dressed, white-spatted, frock-coated man of the world, with a bustling air as of one to whom minutes are precious.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • This time it was a smartly-dressed, white-spatted, frock-coated man of the world, with a bustling air as of one to whom minutes are precious.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Jane looked at them in her detached way; Lord Pinkerton, neat and little, his white-spatted feet crossed, his head cocked to one side, like an intelligent sparrow's; Lady

    Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

  • Just behind them a man in a striped blue suit, walking slue-footed in white-spatted feet, grinned at the sight and catching

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • And the next moment, fairly bouncing in, and looking as pink-faced, and white-spatted, and dapper as ever, was none other than Mr. Perkins.

    The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

  • It was two o'clock when Sir Henry Wilding's motor turned its back upon the outskirts of London, and it was a quarter past seven when it whirled up to the stables of Wilding Hall, and the baronet and his grey-headed, bespectacled and white-spatted companion alighted, having taken five hours and a quarter to make a journey which the trains which run daily between Liverpool Street and Darsham make in four.

    Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

  • Just behind them a man in a striped blue suit, walking slue-footed in white-spatted feet, grinned at the sight and catching Anthony’s eye, winked through the glass.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • a white-spatted, rosy-wattled gentleman in a subduedly elegant waistcoat took the one on the end.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

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