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  • He slipped his forage-cap into his hip pocket, and he was ready to walk.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the spring-powdered road to the cemetery.

    Main Street 2004

  • Beneath the avenues of the vines with which the slope of Mashuk is covered, occasional glimpses could be caught of the gay-coloured hat of a lover of solitude for two — for beside that hat I always noticed either a military forage-cap or the ugly round hat of a civilian.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • Smoke filled the room; when it cleared away, the forage-cap was taken down.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • He cocked the pistol again, and took aim at a forage-cap which was hanging above the window.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • They carry lorgnettes, and they pay less attention to a uniform — they have grown accustomed in the Caucasus to meeting a fervid heart beneath a numbered button and a cultured intellect beneath a white forage-cap.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • That tall, stout old man in the overcoat and forage-cap with a cockade — was the police captain, Mihail Makarovitch.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • A bullet-headed youth, in a red coat with gold letters on the shoulder, fingering a forage-cap, slunk out round the end of this impediment, passing the two men beside the door, and a light, clear voice seemed to call after him --

    Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Members of Sokol societies wear an eagle's feather, or perhaps a falcon's, in the saucy little head-dress, somewhat like our old cavalry forage-cap, when in their becoming full dress.

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • Witnesses were called from the stable; my story was made good; and as I stood in the ante-room adjusting my forage-cap I heard the beginning of

    The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

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