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  • On his head he had a sun-hat hung with puggaree and fly-veil: he also carried a sun-umbrella, green-lined; while a pair of dark goggles dimmed for him the intolerable whiteness of sky, road, iron roofs.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • One afternoon, when the interest in the Brown house was still at its height, and before the children had made the acquaintance of their new neighbor, a little girl came slowly up the street carrying a sun-umbrella.

    The Story of the Big Front Door Mary Finley Leonard

  • One of us put up a sun-umbrella, which had been useful on the hot ride the day before; it kept an end of one bed more or less dry, and fortunately the shower did not last long, while underneath warm bedding it was possible to keep dry for a time.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • "It is just as well that I have to go to the house again, for I forgot my sun-umbrella, and I am sure the day is very hot."

    The Wreck Anonymous

  • The sun-umbrella to which Ollie alluded was one of her birthday presents, and she was always glad when the sun was hot enough to make it useful.

    The Wreck Anonymous

  • She stepped out on to the lawn with a garden-hat placed above her cap and a sun-umbrella held over her head.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • He would have preferred a cushion, a double helmet and a sun-umbrella with a canopy thrown in, but reflecting that he was fortunate in being able to tackle the Kiwa without having to resort to swimming, he endured the glare with comparative equanimity.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • She got up, opened her white sun-umbrella and turned round, keeping her hat in her left hand.

    In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • In the midst of a dream about home, Jill was roused by a loud shout, and, starting up so suddenly that the sun-umbrella went overboard, she found herself sailing off alone, while the distracted lads roared and beckoned vainly from the cove.

    Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

  • Will and Archie mimicked them behind, while grandmamma and Auntie Jean, under a generous black sun-umbrella, strolled slowly along some distance in the rear.

    Cricket at the Seashore Elizabeth Weston Timlow 1896

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