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  • A very rough twilled cotton shirt, striped with blue and white, a round-crowned broad-brimmed felt hat, and a pair of heavily-nailed shoes completed this unique costume; and when they had been divested of their whiskers and got their hair closely cropped, the metamorphosis was so complete that Rashleigh no longer knew any of those who had arrived with him.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Spain; while the young men wore the little round-crowned hat, with brim turned up all round, like a cup turned down in its saucer, while the brim was set off with little black tufts like cockades.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Spain; while the young men wore the little round-crowned hat, with brim turned up all round, like a cup turned down in its saucer, while the brim was set off with little black tufts like cockades.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro, in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat, like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • The bone man looked his passenger over with interest, from his feet in their serviceable shoes, to his head under his round-crowned, wide-brimmed black hat.

    Trail's End George W. Ogden

  • He wears a queer round-crowned hat, with the rim turned up at the back; a jacket with large pockets outside, a sort of trunk hose, and black boots reaching to the knee.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro, in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat, like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

  • On the back of his brown curls sat a flat-brimmed, round-crowned hat in which a single plume of white waved and nodded bravely at each move of the proud little head.

    The Outlaw of Torn Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • The round-crowned soft hat, undented, the flapping trouser legs, the gait recognized readily by one who has ever seen a master mariner patrol his quarter-deck -- all these marked him as a safe man to tackle.

    Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

  • Men wear low, round-crowned, broad-brimmed palm hats; trousers are rarely of the tight-fitting

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

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