blue-bloused

In the reflection of the window across the aisle Kiki saw the elderly white lady seated next to her take a shopping bag from the floor and hug it to her bony, blue-bloused chest.

RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 1995

Salty old Victor McLaglen, the distinguished graying Wayne, the intensified hues of the forty-year-old Technicolor film, the shoulder-punching innocent humor of the blue-bloused horse soldiers ...

Manhattan Is My Beat Deaver, Jeffery 1989

Along the river are great flour-mills, with wash-houses and red-armed, blue-bloused women eternally washing and rinsing.

The Automobilist Abroad

Over the sapphire canal where the old men are fishing for sprats, above the rugged scarp where the blue-bloused _ouvriers_ are quarrying the famous champagne cheese, you see the Gothic transept of the Palazzio

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

And you'd think, perhaps, that these blue-bloused chaps who loll along the street,

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

Some blue-bloused men looked up from their work in the vineyards a long way off.

The Master Mummer 1906

The blue-bloused Chinaman who stood behind his master's chair, poured out the tea and laid a newspaper on one side of the plate and letters on the other.

The Daffodil Mystery Edgar Wallace 1903

And you’d think, perhaps, that the blue-bloused chaps who loll along the street

0 1575. The Men behind the Guns by John Jerome Rooney. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

A few blue-bloused peasants were still busy among them.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

A few blue-bloused peasants were still busy among them.

The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900