Costly weapons, too, such as richly chased daggers and inlaid pistols, lay carelessly about, with curiously shaped pipes and gold-embroidered tobacco-bags; a richly lined fur pelisse covered the sofa, and a skull-cap of the very finest sable lay beside it.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
"Oh, Aunt Sukey," she said, as she buttoned up her blue bombazet pelisse-"oh, to think that we had got into such an interesting part of 'The Children of the Abbey!
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
As Miss Grandiere pulled up at the horse block before the door, a lady, tall, stately, handsome, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair, very like Miss Grandiere herself, and handsomely dressed in a puce-colored silk pelisse, and a beaver bonnet, appeared at the door, and said: "You haven't time to stop, Sukey.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth