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Weakening, but unconscious of it, with bloody hands and feet, without lasso, and with only one charge in his revolver, hatless, coatless, vestless, bootless, the wild hunter urged on the noble horse.

From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane

Jake met us in the yard, hatless, coatless, vestless, although the temperature was flirting with the freezing point.

From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.

It is the logical conclusion of the vestless and coatless portrait of himself that appeared in the first edition of his poems.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

This is doubtless the meaning of the vestless and coatless portrait of himself prefixed to the first issue of the "Leaves," to which I have referred.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

"I couldn't help hearing," apologized the stranger—he was vestless and bootless.

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson