Eksempler på frock

• The clip-clop of horses' hooves today may evoke flowing silk dresses and frock coats, carriages and a genteel way of life that has disappeared.

• Lastly, this handsome, light-skinned, and rust-haired rake, dressed in a frock-coat and carrying a gold-tipped cane, appealed to women.

• The ' easterner ' versus ' westerner ' debates, the ' frocks ' versus the ' brass hats ', the polarities drawn more clearly after the war than they ever were during it, provided him with protection.

• The issue cannot be put on and off like a party frock that one takes out of the wardrobe on high days and holidays.

• He put on his frock-coat and silk hat, and took his overcoat over his arm, and together they walked downstairs into safety.

• There were hundreds of them: carpets, curtains, kettles, furniture, frocks and every kind of thing that the ordinary consumer buys.

• Moreover, the height of these fires is such that anyone wearing a dressing-gown or a frock is liable to catch it against the fire.

• He told me that some 60 years ago, when he was first a surgeon, surgeons used to operate in old frock coats.

• Each year she puts on a different party frock; each year she makes a pretty little speech.

• They were not actually trousers—more a kind of frock.

• The demand for cotton frocks was very low indeed.

• The purpose for which that woman bought that frock was for her to be the only one in that kind of frock.

• Or perhaps a girl borrows a dance frock from her sister, knowing that she would not wish it.

• But in practice, if they like, they can drive lorries in a cretonne frock and high-heeled shoes.

• They have had to put their top hats and frock coats back again because there is no sign of it.