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There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking down, nothing was to be seen but a few mackintoshed pedestrians, splashing dismally along the wet, grey street.

From Captain Jim by Bruce, Mary Grant

Many college-bred men enter life with their minds carefully mackintoshed.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The master of the house, booted and mackintoshed, had come back into the hall, and the twins scampered up the stairs at the unaccustomed sternness of his voice.

From Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children by Glasgow, Geraldine

Two mackintoshed figures met in the circle of pines.

From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)