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Year's end still in straw hat and sandals
He can't think without his hat.
I'm puttin'on my top hat Tyin'up my white tie Brushin'off my tails
My common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigor, sometimes not without morosity; yet at mydevotion I loveto usethe civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, withall thoseoutward and sensiblemotions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.
All hat and no cattle.
There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. The wind puffed, and Mr Pickwick puffed, and the hat rolled over and over as merrilyas a lively porpoise in a strong tide.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.
The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.
Under theblack hat, when Ihad first seenthem, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.
Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.
Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me.
There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose anoldmandecayed inhisintellects.Ifayoungor middle- aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered inanold man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,'His memory isgoing.'
There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.
It is difficult to live up to one's poster When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beautyand rustic health.
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