Example Sentences

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They left its grass of "ghostly green" when the "dog-star raged with all its fury," and "came on old Aix-la-Chapelle, well-cloaked and carriage windows closed."

From James Fenimore Cooper by Phillips, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

And in each case she had pouted, or scoffed, and had contrived somehow to circumvent him, to thwart him, and to get with well-cloaked, or with uncloaked, insistence her own way.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake