peajacketed

Example Sentences

• "“I would see the commander of this vessel,” the lady said, after having paused at the gangway a few moments, and cast a most inquisitorial glance around her and upon the half dozen or so peajacketed gentlemen of the quarter-deck present."
• "“I don’t see what good she’d do us: we’re Government employees,” Ford said, his face paling with sudden premonition as he stared at the peajacketed little man in sou’wester and sea boots—Welsh’s idea of proper “sky pilot” costume."
• "One immaculate looking limousine, seven-passenger, produced a handsome young man of twenty-five who carefully laid out the carcases of a dozen and a half roasting fowls on a wide board across light trestles, and stood, peajacketed and hands in pockets, waiting for customers."
• "At least one unidentified Chillicothean connected seven peajacketed men “in a big, black car” with the million-dollar holdup of Brink’s in Boston, when he saw them stop at Albers super market on East Main street Wednesday evening."
• "The thin strains of a Romany romance / Undaunt the ears of each peajacketed / Seaman on liberty, and of each old / Wanderer slowly losing to the cold, / And of each schoolboy who has come to see / Life in the flesh inside the Lovemovie."
• "Pride refuses to die in the shabby peajacketed man explaining his panhandling technique."