in collar
Example Sentences
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Chin in collar, Marathoner Nurmi stared at his hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
They go in collar of uniform jacket, and as this sort of collar has gone out, I am wearing mine and throwing them away when done.
From Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 by Florence Vere-Laurie
Unluckily he had pitched upon one who, when he is in collar, reckons thirteen and a half hours a fairish day's work.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling
It was incased in a smoking jacket of velvet, and his neck was conventionally clad in collar and cravat.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
In the ghostly light of fog and breaking day he performed an uncanny pantomime, presenting a liner's officer, resplendent in collar and cuff, strutting, mincing, on a steamer's bridge.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
