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  • Cool as damn-your-eyes, in a tweed cape and deer-stalker hat, so help me!

    Fiancée 2010

  • If we all stopped to think about Sherlock Holmes then we might imagine a detective who smokes a pipe, and wears a deer-stalker cap.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • As their pursuers gained on them, the latter had to use the undignified attitudes of the deer-stalker, to crouch behind clumps of trees and even to crawl prostrate in deep grass.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • As their pursuers gained on them, the latter had to use the undignified attitudes of the deer-stalker, to crouch behind clumps of trees and even to crawl prostrate in deep grass.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • As their pursuers gained on them, the latter had to use the undignified attitudes of the deer-stalker, to crouch behind clumps of trees and even to crawl prostrate in deep grass.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • Ali, of the Arab tribe Hammama, who was with us, and who is the greatest deer-stalker in the country, preceded us a little distance to look out for deer, the marks of which were here very numerous.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • This flagitious attack upon the dignity of the knight so incensed him, that he applied to a lawyer at Warwick to put the severity of the laws in force against the rhyming deer-stalker.

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • A lackluster yellowish beam radiated from the streetlamp near us, as an oppressive fog crept over the shabby golden buildings which formed the district known as the East End. The consulting detective was clad in his renowned tan caped-back overcoat and his tan deer-stalker cap, whereas my apparel included my familiar gray greatcoat and top-hat boiler.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • Cool as damn-your-eyes, in a tweed cape and deer-stalker hat, so help me!

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Cool as damn-your-eyes, in a tweed cape and deer-stalker hat, so help me!

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

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