He placed his bag on the floor, took off his muffler, threw back his overcoat, and sat waiting. The overcoat was new, but the garments beneath it were his poorest, those he wore when sitting in his garret, for he had neither had time to change them, nor thought of doing so.英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
``My overcoat!'' William groaned. ``They'd think I was a lunatic, carrying an overcoat in August!''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
His expression was of despair. ``They'll think I'm a lunatic and they'll say so before everybody --and I don't blame 'em! Overcoat on a hot day like this! Except me, I don't suppose there was ever anybody lived in the world and got to be going on eighteen years old and had to carry his silly old overcoat around with him in August-- because his mother made him!''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
George Willard and Elmer Cowley walked through the main street of Winesburg. The night was cold and George Willard had on a new overcoat and looked very spruce and dressed up. He thrust his hands into the overcoat pockets and looked inquir- ingly at his companion. He had long been wanting to make friends with the young merchant and find out what was in his mind. Now he thought he saw a chance and was delighted. "I wonder what he's up to? Perhaps he thinks he has a piece of news for the paper. It can't be a fire because I haven't heard the fire bell and there isn't anyone running," he thought.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
I can hold Edith's - I beg your pardon, my wife's hand in mine and I am happy. I have no ambition to be a millionaire. I was very ambitious to win my wife."
Scarlett Trent looked at him for a moment open mouthed and open-eyed. Then he laughed outright and a chill load fell from the heart of the man who for a moment had forgotten himself. The laugh was scornful perhaps, but it was not angry. "Well, you've shut me up," he declared. "You seem a poor sort of a creature to me, but if you're content, it's no business of mine. Here buy yourself an overcoat, and drink a glass of wine.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"I never asked what the dance was," he returned. "I merely took the opportunity of revising my toilet, and getting rid of that rather distinctive overcoat, which I shall call for now. They're not too particular at such stages of such proceedings, but I've no doubt I should have seen someone I knew if I had none right in. I might even have had a turn, if only I had been less uneasy about you, Bunny."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
As long as we don't 'open our proverbial overcoats' and 'flash our junk' at a particular three-lettered agency.美剧 · 《Billions》
Do you remember that overcoat I gave you, for the refugees, when we were in London for Lady Rose's ball?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
It was a return ticket that I found in the pocket of Mr Bates' overcoat.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
Nothing. Just your overcoat sounds remarkably like Brent Musburger.美剧 · 《Friends》