tam-o'-shanters

They were foreign-looking fellows with sun-bronzed faces, and with knitted tam-o'-shanters perched seaman fashion on their heads.

To Repel Boarders 2010

Greeks were everywhere -- swarthy men in sea-boots and tam-o'-shanters, hatless women in bright colors, hordes of sturdy children, and all speaking in outlandish voices, crying shrilly and vivaciously with the volubility of the Mediterranean.

CHAPTER XI 2010

They think the hindrance a mud-flat at first but soon hear the sound of oarlocks, then two men in a boat shoot under their stern: foreign looking fellows with knitted tam-o'-shanters, bright woolen sashes, sea-boots, earrings, long knives — "For all the world they were like pirates stepped out of the pages of romance."

“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008

Cli A M Y T A N tD tendants greet us wearing tam-o'-shanters and kilts, an inexplicable fashion choice that makes me question our caretakers'ability to deal with hijackers, loss of engine parts, and unscheduled ocean landings.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

And in every store seeking trade from the college girls they found the baby blue tam-o'-shanters.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

The two girls skilfully tightened the stringing of the shoes, and then, having put on coats, mittens, and drawn the tam-o'-shanters down over their ears, they crept out of their rooms and hastened downstairs and out of the dormitory building.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

Moros consists entirely of turbans, fezes, or soft tam-o'-shanters, the latter a compromise, I fancy, between the hats of civilization and the head-covering demanded by the Moslem religion.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

Nevertheless, among the mass of pale blue tam-o'-shanters, her parti-colored one was very prominent.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

The weather had become cool and all the girls wore their tam-o'-shanters.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

And the new girls likewise noted that most of the tam-o'-shanters worn-by their sophomore hostesses were pale yellow.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson