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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

  • 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

  • He wears a red liberty-cap, and a nose which matches it to a shade.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • 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

  • 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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