My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.
I need someone to fold the sheet, someone to take the other end of the sheet and walk towards me and fold once , then step back , fold and walk towards me again. We all need someone to fold the sheet. Someone to hitch on the coat at the neck. Someone to put on the kettle. Someone to dry up while I wash.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
Pastries. . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.
