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Nkongo; a pert rascal of the French factory, habited in a red cap,
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Wearing a black and white track suit, black shoes and red cap,
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When I took my fust twelve ounces 'ot, from a gal with a snowy white cap,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various
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"Why, mother!" she said, stroking down the gray hair under the cap,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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The upper end of S projects slightly through a perforation in the moon, and to it the hemispherical black shell or cap,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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As it is not practicable to drop the hammer directly on the head of the concrete piles, the driving is accomplished by the use of a special cap,
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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When she wheeled him through the streets, royally benign after a full bottle, rosy-cheeked in his wooly white cap,
Undertow Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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In 1752 Lady Gooch, wife of Governor William Gooch, while in London bought for Mrs. Thomas Dawson a fashionable laced cap,
Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922
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He entered Nairobi at the end of the trip with a cap,
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
A Shropshire Lad A. E. Housman 1897
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