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  • Perhaps that was interesting to some of you, but when you've been Bobby's personal houseguest guest there as I have, albeit, only when Fanny Stevenson was away for the weekend, it's so old cocked-hat.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010

  • Perhaps that was interesting to some of you, but when you've been Bobby's personal houseguest guest there as I have, albeit, only when Fanny Stevenson was away for the weekend, it's so old cocked-hat.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! Tallulah Morehead 2010

  • Perhaps that was interesting to some of you, but when you've been Bobby's personal houseguest guest there as I have, albeit, only when Fanny Stevenson was away for the weekend, it's so old cocked-hat.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010

  • But while the fry assembled with the humane hope of seeing as much of the fun as possible, the laced cocked-hat of the beadle was discerned among the multitude, and all made way for that person of awful authority.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • She looked round, and saw advancing towards her on a pony, whose bare back and halter assorted ill with the nightgown, slippers, and laced cocked-hat of the rider, a cavalier of no less importance than Dumbiedikes himself.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Moreover, he himself had his brigadier wig newly frizzed, his bonnet (he had abjured the cocked-hat) decorated with Saint

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Dinner is already laid in it for three; and the napkins are folded in cocked-hat fashion.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • A tall gentleman, with a cocked-hat and feathers, wearing a blue and silver uniform coat, descended from the vehicle; and having, with much grave condescension, saluted his escort, mounted the stair.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • The British uniform of the period, with its immense epaulettes, queer cocked-hat, breeches, gaiters, ponderous cartridge-box, buckled shoes, and what not, would look strange and barbarous now.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • Down went plume and cocked-hat, down went corporal and captain, down went grocer and tailor, under the long staves of the indomitable English Footmen.

    Burlesques 2006

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