Word: coate
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would drop in. I was therefore rather surprised when I heard a knock at my door, and saw a stranger come in. His appearance was certainly remarkable. He was young, but dressed in a very old fashion. Buff boots and black-velvet knickerbockers adorned his legs, while a blue coat and brilliant red waistcoat covered the upper part of his body. He took off his large slouch hat as he came in, and showed a head of brown ringlets. Thinking he had been taking part in some theatricals, and had wandered by mistake into my room, I offered...
STOUGHTON has received a new coat of paint...
...cousins, young and old, come to gaze with wondering eyes upon us, we appear in a dress by no means appropriate to the occasion. No blessing was ever conferred upon man equal to that which prescribed the form of dress which he should wear at evening. A morning coat can be of many a shape and many a shade, but when we meet at night we need have no thought of our dress, we must all be arrayed alike. To this blessing custom has added another in prescribing one unchangeable form of dress for college ceremonials, while we sacrilegious beings...
LOST. - About a week before the Christmas recess, a seal-ring, plain gold setting, with cut blood-stone, bearing coat-of-arms. The finder will please return...
What makes the matter still more remarkable is, that Mr. Brantingham was an American citizen. The Journal well points out the absurdity of the case; for "the wearing of a boating coat or cap, the use of dishes or jugs stamped with the college crest," would bring the user within the scope of this Act of Parliament. Verily, a free country is America; where people can put on or take off armorial bearings, as they would that particular bearing which goes in student circles by the name of "dog." The debates in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions are sometimes most...