Plates for a corresponding number of guests were warming behind the fender; and the guests themselves were warming before it: the chief and most important of whom appeared to be a stoutish gentleman in a bright crimson coat with long tails, vividly red breeches, and a
cocked hat, who was standing with his back to the fire, and had apparently just entered, for besides retaining his
cocked hat on his head, he carried in his hand a high stick, such as gentlemen of his profession usually elevate in a sloping position over the roofs of carriages.
It all grew out of a
cocked hat, for one evening the Professor came in to give Jo her lesson with a paper soldier cap on his head, which Tina had put there and he had forgotten to take off.
Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his
cocked hat and can on the table before him.
The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse Guards, wearing a
cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone's attention.
That evening, when Amelia came tripping into the drawing-room in a white muslin frock, prepared for conquest at Vauxhall, singing like a lark, and as fresh as a rose--a very tall ungainly gentleman, with large hands and feet, and large ears, set off by a closely cropped head of black hair, and in the hideous military frogged coat and
cocked hat of those times, advanced to meet her, and made her one of the clumsiest bows that was ever performed by a mortal.
Here he cast about for a comfortable seat, lighted on a big boulder under a birch by the trackside, sate down upon it with a very long, serious upper lip, and the sun now shining in upon us between two peaks, put his pocket-handkerchief over his
cocked hat to shelter him.
One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his
cocked hat, his sabre-cut cheek, and his old brass telescope.
Meanwhile she folds up a
cocked hat for that redoubtable old general at Bath, descriptive of her melancholy condition.
I see, faintly, down the dim vista of the Past, an agreeable figure, like myself, with a
cocked hat under its arm, black tights on its lightly tripping legs, a rosette in its buttonhole, and an engaging smile on its face, walking from end to end of the room, in the character of Master of the Ceremonies.
It might be palace without, but it was wigwam within; so that, between the stateliness of his mansion and the squalidness of his furniture, the gallant White Plume presented some such whimsical incongruity as we see in the gala equipments of an Indian chief on a treaty-making embassy at Washington, who has been generously decked out in
cocked hat and military coat, in contrast to his breech-clout and leathern legging; being grand officer at top, and ragged Indian at bottom.
Jamie and Pokey were at once enrolled in the Cosey Corner Light Infantry a truly superb company, composed entirely of officers, all wearing
cocked hats, carrying flags, waving swords, or beating drums.
Same with
cocked hats; the cocks form gable-end eave-troughs, Flask.
