in collar
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Chin in collar, Marathoner Nurmi stared at his hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was incased in a smoking jacket of velvet, and his neck was conventionally clad in collar and cravat.
From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon
And first came Teddy Finnigan, in collar tall and wide, With Norah B. O'Flannigan demurely by his side; And Alderman O'Grocery, and Councilman Maginn, And both the Miss Mulrooneys, and the widowed Mrs. Flynn.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
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 Bone, David W.
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 Kipling, Rudyard
