His high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat shadowed his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

His dress consists of a high-crowned hat, and a pendent frill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference

The mirach, or lower parts of the fisticuffs. belly, like a high-crowned hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

He stood snapping off beads of moisture from a high-crowned derby in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

"I wore a high-crowned hat, and a long-tailed blue; and I was seventy years old.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Suddenly a little woman in a high-crowned hat stepped from behind a tree in front of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olive Fairy Book] Reference

The minister had on his high-crowned Panama hat, so it must have been August, the only month he wore it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]

The men wear high-crowned hats, such as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Fair] Reference

For the most part they wore very loose garments and high-crowned hats, somewhat of the kind worn by Guy Fawkes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

He put on his high-crowned hat and left his tipi just as the third round of cannonballs ripped through the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

As he set the high-crowned hat on his head, he caught sight of his shadowy reflection in one of the study windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

He wore one of the high-crowned, wide-brimmed hats of the country; but he was not otherwise dressed like the Mexicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

On the present occasion he was wrapped in an ample cloak, and had on his head a high-crowned hat encircled with a feather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

Wide-eyed, saber-fanged, it fixed its baleful gaze on me and tossed its high-crowned mane in an uncannily familiar. gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

Light struck the stained curve of ancient ivory, and threw the vault of the high-crowned skull that held it into sharp relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

He developed a high-crowned, broad-brimmed style, and marketed it brilliantly in a premium version called The Boss of the Plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blank Slate Special Report: Crisis CreativityCrisis Creativity] Reference

The photograph did fit the Civil War period, but the man's high-crowned leather cap differed from the uniform caps soldiers wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Photo Detective] Reference

Such high-crowned caps are mentioned in Icelandic sagas from 1200-1300 and have been found as examples of women's fashion from this period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of Greenland's Vikings] Reference

“Move on! move on!” cried a man with a high-crowned hat japanned at intervals, and, wondering at his rudeness to a lady, I looked at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema] Reference

The figure which produced this effect on the Esculapius of the village, was that of a tall old woman, who wore a high-crowned hat and muffler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

"They call it 'exterminated,'" said she, pushing back the broad-brimmed, high-crowned man's hat that she wore, and showing her gray, ragged locks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference

He was holding the reins in one hand, whip in the other, wrapped to the waist in a light blanket, wearing a black cutaway and a high-crowned derby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

Nearly a hundred feet ahead of him, the sparse glow of a taper outlined a brawny man in a full-length coat, high-crowned Buckeye hat, and rubber boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

He was a tall young man, dressed in a black frock coat, light trousers, braced up to show that he wore socks, shoes, white gloves, and a high-crowned hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

Before I could answer, a man wearing a cowboy's high-crowned hat and a mask across the upper part of his face, appeared at the door of the car and gave the command.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

I turned from him, and two men were walking toward us in the crowd, one passing out leaflets, both of them wearing identical sandwich boards and very high-crowned peaked hats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

He was wearing an ankle-length overcoat with a brown fur collar, and in one hand held a high-crowned derby and something else I couldn't quite make out in the shadows of the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

When he put on his wide-brimmed, rather high-crowned hat, he looked more.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference

The copped-hat was the high-crowned brimless hat then fashionable, the parent of the modern one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel] Reference

He had besides a very high-crowned hat, with bands of many-coloured linen enfolded about it, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

A shabby-looking fellow, dressed in a jerkin and wearing a high-crowned hat, attended as domestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

Its molars were high-crowned, a good shape for chewing on leaves, and it was entirely missing the second premolar.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The grave-digger picked up his shovel and started off looking like a gnome in the moonlight under his high-crowned Stetson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Doc] Reference

Many of the Welsh women, particularly the older ones, wear black beaver hats, high-crowned, and almost precisely like men's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference

"Move on! move on!" cried a man with a high-crowned hat japanned at intervals, and, wondering at his rudeness to a lady, I looked at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference