bluecoat

1 A clergyman; Ð familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

2 He had not gone far when he tripped and fell, and in a moment three bluecoats were upon him.

3 "The bluecoats will stay because if it ain't broke you don't fix it." he said.

4 The bluecoats will stay, because if it ain't broke, you don't fix it.

5 The rebels draw the bluecoats in as they link up with the other Confederate force defending the bridge.

6 The solid man of Boston bears himself loftily to wife, child, and neighbor; but the bluecoat on the corner perceives a shameful secret of crime and guilt lurking under the fair outward seeming.

7 "By God, the bluecoats!" was all he said.

8 Drew could not see which of the troopers had burst out with that, but in his present mood all bluecoats were the enemy.

9 He plans to expand its famous cast of "bluecoats" with entertainers dressed in cartoon costumes and other gimmicks.

10 At sight of the bluecoat the pickpocket became nervous.

11 Two bluecoats entered the room, gazed awkwardly about, and walked to the window to peer down at the street.

12 The inspector was talking to a policeman, and Ned overheard the bluecoat ask: “Have you sent the telegram?”

13 The rebels leap to their feet and chase after the bluecoats.

14 "When we visited Pontins what we saw blew our minds," he says, adding that the bluecoats would stay, but Britannia will introduce ideas borrowed from American holiday parks.

15 Hence, it was necessary for us to move with great caution, to avoid being intercepted by the bluecoats.

16 Indeed, there is nothing in the return of the birds more curious and suggestive than in the first appearance, or rumors of the appearance, of this little bluecoat.

17 A reward had been offered for the taking of the lunatic, for he had been at large for some days, and now the bluecoats had just missed the capture.

18 The detail had charged the mob with sanguinary results, both to the mob and the bluecoats.

19 "We'll get this robbery business into the hands of the bluecoats; then home for us," called Phil from his seat behind.

20 Every fifty yards or so are military police, mounted and afoot, who control the traffic with small red flags as do the New York bluecoats with their stop-and-go signs.

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