"Surtout" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quaintly moulded Oft his humid boots would lie; And his queer surtout was folded On some strange old ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... exclaimed, glancing up at her quickly from under the brim of his travelling cap—one of his own special design with a cockade in it—"C'est surtout l'autre, ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... illustrious inventor of the safety-lamp (Sir Humphrey Davy) ... a brown hat with flexible brim, surrounded with line upon line of catgut, and innumerable fly-hooks; jackboots worthy of a Dutch smuggler, and a fustian surtout dabbled with the blood of salmon, made a fine contrast with the smart jacket, white-cord breeches, and well-polished jockey-boots of the less distinguished cavaliers about him. Dr. Wollaston was in black; and with his noble serene dignity of countenance might have passed for a sporting archbishop. ...
— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... Alfred, "I'll never make you a frogged surtout and a pair of trousers a la Cosaque! Go to Babin, or Morean, if you want a carnival dress; but it shall never be said that a man of as good figure as yours left ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About
... s'etend aux iles St. Pierre et St. Francois, ecoit connue lors de notre depart d'Europe. Decouverte par les Hollandois en 1627, elle avoit ete, dans ces derniers temps, visitee par VANCOUVER et surtout par DENTRECASTEAUX; mais ce dernier navigateur n'ayant pu lui-meme s'avancer au-dela des iles St. Pierre et St. Francois, qui forment la limite orientale de la terre de Nuyts, et les Anglois n'ayant pas porte vers le Sud leurs ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... for sporting or eating. The spur he uses for pricking himself, which he fancies enables him to keep up with the hounds. He frequently uses it to the no small amusement of the spectators. His dress is quite as singular as his mode of life, for he always wears a long surtout coat, a hunting-cap, a boot on one leg and a shoe on the foot of the other—and thus equipped he runs with the speed of a hunting-horse, clearing with ease all the ditches and fences the ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter
... in Heaven's name did you spring from?" and the two men seized the hands of the young giant who, in the attire of a fashionable gallant of the day, with gay-coloured doublet and hose, richly plumed hat, and surtout trimmed with gold lace, ...
— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis
... voisinage, surtout blacksmith, nor anything that belongs to him. For God's sake I beg of you take an active interest in the ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks |
