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All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap.
Les Miserables 2008
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In it, Brother Jonathan must appear with his liberty-cap in one hand and a bag of dollars in the other, bowing humbly before a well-whiskered Mussulman, whose shawl is stuck full of poniards and pistols.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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He wears a red liberty-cap, and a nose which matches it to a shade.
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He lurks under the liberty-cap of the goddess whose features are stamped in the shining gold, and his laugh is the clink of the jingling pieces.
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On the highest point in the center a fine flagstaff one hundred and twenty feet high was proudly crowned by a liberty-cap.
A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921
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A moment later, the liberty-cap that he had set upon his head was softly removed, and a little crown of silver paper put in its place.
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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Liberty, with a pole and a liberty-cap, holding a shield with the
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap.
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All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Some looked like gentlemen, others like peasants; most of them I should have taken for the lazzaroni of this Southern city, -- men with cloth caps, like the classic liberty-cap, or with wide-awake hats.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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