Example Sentences

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The Confederacy," Dogget is described as wearing "an old threadbare black coat, to which he had put new cuffs, pocket-lids, and buttons, on purpose to make its rusticness more conspicuous.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton