bloused

Example Sentences

• "Whatever you do, when a good number has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay, either by the hour or according to distance."
• "There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane;[…]."
• "Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns."
• "As we marched by, and these citizen-soldiers, who were fresh in their picturesque zoo-zoo uniforms, or as they are sometimes called, “Night-drawers Cadets,” the dirty-looking old blue-bloused veterans chaffed them most unmercifully."
• "She indicated Elise, bloused and jeaned, sitting cross-legged on the floor by the fire."