skull-cap

A rude skull-cap of goatskin protected his head from the sun.

Page 1 2010

His garb was dignified and silken, and his black-silk skull-cap with the red button atop, now, alas! fallen on the ground, was the skull-cap worn by the successful and dignified merchants of his race.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

He was reading a book, sober and leather-bound, while on his finely moulded, intellectual head reposed a black skull-cap.

The Dignity of Dollars 2010

I would disrupt that leather - bound volume, violate that black skull-cap, burn the accounts.

The Dignity of Dollars 2010

Meanwhile recovering his skull-cap and smoothing his disordered attire, Ah Kim rubbed his hurts and gazed after her with eyes of devotion.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

And thereafter no question was raised when Ah Chun elected to enter his brilliant drawing-room in blue silk robe, wadded slippers, and black silk skull-cap with red button peak, or when he chose to draw at his slender-stemmed silver-bowled pipe among the cigarette - and cigar - smoking officers and civilians on the broad verandas or in the smoking room.

Chun Ah Chun 2010

In place of that padded skull-cap with chin-strap, Petr Cech might at least consider adopting a fearsome Highlander style Kurgan skull-helmet, while for all we know, the increasingly effete flower Fernando Torres could be just one left-up toilet seat from hitting the richest vein of scoring of his career.

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An African man with a skull-cap walked alongside a woman almost entirely hidden behind a niqab as a young mother stood outside a Cash Generator store holding a plastic bottle and encouraging her little boy to urinate into it.

Esther Rantzen and the battle for Luton 2010

Wrapped in a rich dressing-gown, a fanciful present from an admiring Marchesa, curiously embroidered with algebraic figures like a conjuror's robe, and with a skull-cap of black satin on his hive of a head, the man of gravity was seated at a huge claw-footed old table, round as the zodiac.

Herman Melville, Fantasy Novelist 2008

He was a Pathan, skull-cap and pyjamys and all, and as he came to my horse's head I recognised the sowar who'd given me his gear and pony when I'd left Jhansi - Rafik Tamwar.

Fiancée 2010