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The petticoat was dropped with hesitation, and Barangaroo stood “armed cap-a-pee in nakedness.”
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Behind him came Brian de Bois Guilbert, armed cap-a-pee in bright armour, but without his lance, shield, or sword, which were borne by his two esquires behind him.
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An order was in consequence issued on a Saturday, that the first four pigs found rambling at large after two days should be put to death without mercy; and accordingly on Monday morning at the negro breakfast-hour, the head governor made his appearance befor ethe house, armed cap-a-pee, with a lance in his hand and an enormous cutlass by his side.
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It was the figure of a man armed cap-a-pee, bearing on his shoulders a bundle dropping with water, which afterwards appeared to be the body of a man that seemed to have been drowned, and fished up from the bottom of the neighbouring river.
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Our adventurer hearing himself thus addressed, and seeing his rival, who had passed him, posted to obstruct his progress, armed cap-a-pee, with his lance in the rest, determined to give the satisfaction that was required, and desired that the regulations of the combat might be established.
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Omiah, to excite their admiration the more, was drelTed cap-a-pee in a fuit of armour, and was mounted and caparifbned with his fword and pike, like St. George going to kill the dragon, whom he very nearly rcprefcnted; only that Omiah had pidols in his holders, of which the bold faint knew not the ufe.
yarb commented on the word cap-a-pee
Also capapie and cap-a-pie.
June 18, 2009
madmouth commented on the word cap-a-pee
Anglicization of cap-à-pied; from head to toe.
June 18, 2009