red-cap

If he should observe a [273] prince creep so devoutly to kiss his toe, and those red-cap cardinals, poor parish priests of old, now princes 'companions; what would he say?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

We were both of us capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers; the dead red-cap, with his arms still spread out, tumbled stiffly after us.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

At every jump of the schooner red-cap slipped to and fro; but -- what was ghastly to behold -- neither his attitude nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was anyway disturbed by this rough usage.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

"With Claude it's not color blindness, but Nettie," explained Ivy, when that rebellious red-cap was seen stepping brazenly in Vera's train.

Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne

There were the two watchmen, sure enough: red-cap on his back, as stiff as a handspike, with his arms stretched out like those of a crucifix, and his teeth showing through his open lips; Israel Hands propped against the bulwarks, his chin on his chest, his hands lying open before him on the deck, his face as white, under its tan, as a tallow candle.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I had brought some flashlights along, and with these did my first, and I am afraid almost my best war work, as an amateur red-cap and baggage smasher.

War With the Blinds Down 1939

Mason hung up, left the telephone booth, and stood by the main entrance to the depot smoking cigarettes until Della Street swung his car in close to the curb, then Mason nodded to the red-cap porter.

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

Harry gave Rose the baby, and put his arm about Rose's mother, and they watched them go, the red-cap leading with the suit-cases, Wolf carrying another, Norma on his arm, twisting herself about, at the very last second, to smile an April smile over her shoulder, and wave the green jade handle of her slim little umbrella.

The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Bruce's careful directions; she was to give her check to an expressman, and her suitcase to a red-cap; the expressman would probably charge fifty cents, the red-cap was to have no more than fifteen.

Mother Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

A red-cap at the station, when he arrived, leaped for his bag, abandoning another which the Pullman porter had handed him.

Chapter 35 1918