sunbonnets

We were dressed precisely alike -- white stockings, white dresses, with big blue sashes, and white sunbonnets.

Chapter 13 2010

The gentlemen-donkeys wore high pointed caps set between their great ears, and the lady-donkeys wore sunbonnets with holes cut in the top for the ears to stick through.

Love Letters 2010

For a moment I could almost picture it, a bunch of nineteenth-century figures in plain wooden pews, the men in dark hats, the women and girls in calico dresses with sunbonnets knotted around their necks.

Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

For a moment I could almost picture it, a bunch of nineteenth-century figures in plain wooden pews, the men in dark hats, the women and girls in calico dresses with sunbonnets knotted around their necks.

Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

For a moment I could almost picture it, a bunch of nineteenth-century figures in plain wooden pews, the men in dark hats, the women and girls in calico dresses with sunbonnets knotted around their necks.

Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

Old ladies in sunbonnets trotted along the tracks beside his train, fifes and drums marched ahead of him in the streets, bands played “See the Conquering Hero Comes,” the shrieks of the crowds became delirium.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

He pecked his prim wife—a woman of devout churchgoing and sunbonnets—and walked off through the glade.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

He pecked his prim wife—a woman of devout churchgoing and sunbonnets—and walked off through the glade.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

He pecked his prim wife—a woman of devout churchgoing and sunbonnets—and walked off through the glade.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

The women with bright bandannas or sunbonnets and walking many miles perhaps with their allunsi babies in their arms or bound upon their backs with a shawl.

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