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  • Osborne, who was to take the left, with his tam-o-shanter bonnet cocked on the side of his head, as jaunty a Highland officer as ever trod the heath in Flanders.

    "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

  • Susan thought them a pretty study to-day; Josephine so demurely beautiful in her middy jacket and tam-o-shanter cap, and Philip so obviously proud of her.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Then came a band of tiny boys carrying wooden guns over their shoulders and dressed as Turcos; large groups of bigger boys followed dressed in white trousers, blue coats and tam-o-shanter hats, and headed by a bugle band.

    On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

  • "Looking up, he saw a slender little girl in a long tan coat and a white tam-o-shanter" Frontispiece

    Sandy Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • The thistle caught Sir Walter, and the next day when he came to call on the sculptor he saw a tam-o-shanter hanging on the top of an easel and a bit of plaid scarf thrown carelessly across the corner of the picture below.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • In the Tale of Benjamin Bunny, there's one line about Benjamin trying on his tam-o-shanter.

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  • So until they release a new edition that replaces "macintosh" with "raincoat" and explains that a tam-o-shanter is a woolen scotting cap with a pompom in the middle, I would steer clear of

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  • Every time I see that clip I'm relieved when Ian removes the tam-o-shanter and that heavy tweed cape when he ... uh ... whips out his flute.

    Latest entries from adrastos.blog-city.com 2008

  • Every time I see that clip I'm relieved when Ian removes the tam-o-shanter and that heavy tweed cape when he ... uh ... whips out his flute.

    Latest entries from adrastos.blog-city.com 2008

  • Angus, the stuffed Scottie with the ragged tam-o-shanter who shared her bed, and the comforting hum of her parents" conversation from the living room below, punctuated by the baritone sax of the theme music from Perry Mason.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

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