I threw caution to the wind and took a napless Michael. From Wordnik.com. [But Mommy, Where is the Panda?] Reference
We also advise them to have lofty, napless, steeple-crowned hats. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
KayTar had a rough time adujsting between meds and we were both napless and night waking for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Wherever You Go, There You Are | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Six years later, my son spent his quiet time at the window, longing to be outside with the napless one and shouting at passing cars. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Cheney and Rumsfeld vs. the CIA] Reference
This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
A greasy hat it was, and a napless; impending over his eyes, cracked and crumpled at the brim, and with a wisp of pocket – handkerchief dangling out below it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
The only excuse for a towel was a napless synthetic oblong that might have qualified as a hand towel on Heaven except for the fact that it was designed to shed water-not absorb it. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
But he salutes you, as you take your seat beside him, with the air of an ex-member of "The Ten;" his ancient hat and napless coat are carefully brushed; his outrageously high shirt-collar and voluminous unstarched neckcloth, after the fashion of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
But the coalheaver always sticks close to the attire of his station; he alone wears the consistent and befitting garb of his forefathers; he alone has not discarded "the napless vesture of humility," to follow the always expensive, and often absurd fashions of his superiors. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
It was ripped, it was frayed, it was napless and greasy. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories] Reference
He was a grotesque figure now, in his napless hat and broken-down stock. From Wordnik.com. [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference
(and no, I'm not ready for the napless child, but seem to have one anyhow. sigh.). From Wordnik.com. [Remember, You Asked...] Reference
He stood just within the threshold of the door, holding his napless hat in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Complete] Reference
And she glanced, with pain, at his rusty and threadbare suit of black, and at his napless hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Rector of St. Mark's] Reference
His hair was plastered with pomatum close to his head, and he wore a napless high beaver bell-crowned hat. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
Stout men with napless hats on, look out of the bedroom windows, and cut jokes with friends in the street. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
As he took off a white napless hat, which he wiped with great care and affection with the sleeve of his right arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
But it was the half-cotton fabric, dingy and napless, considered good enough for summer wear, in which Ben was arrayed. From Wordnik.com. [David Fleming's Forgiveness] Reference
He, too, was shabbily dressed -- his coat being shiny and napless, and his vest lacking two out of the five original buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute] Reference
After an hour or two so passed, the step became more slow; and often the sleek, napless hat was lifted up, and the brow wiped. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
His costume was of the oddest: a long-waisted coat reaching nearly to his heels, short trousers, a flowered silk vest, and a napless hat. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
The coat-once a black evening dress-coat -- of a cut a year or two anterior to that of the trousers; satin facing, - cloth napless, satin stained. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Englishman, enveloped in a dark blue camlet cloak, fastened with bronze lionhead clasps, a red neckcloth, and a shabby, napless, broad-brimmed, brown hat. From Wordnik.com. [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference
The rest of his clothing was napless and shiny, too, but it had the air of being entirely satisfied with itself and blandly sorry for other people's clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
The Colonel's "stovepipe" hat was napless and shiny with much polishing, but nevertheless it had an almost convincing expression about it of having been just purchased new. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
But the briefless young lawyer in the napless hat and thread-bare coat never accepted one of these invitations, for the very simple reason that he had no evening dress in which to appear. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel As The Grave] Reference
The 'fiddle' immediately put his instrument under his arm, and, touching the brim of his napless hat, scraped a sort of bow, and smilingly asked the cook to name any other tune she preferred. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Volume 04] Reference
Or had he possessed a little more personal vanity, he might have suspected the truth; for certainly there was not a handsomer man in the whole county than was this briefless young lawyer with the napless hat and thread-bare coat. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel As The Grave] Reference
The auctioneer had been at first a little doubtful of this tall, shabby stranger in the napless dirty-white beaver and the mangy poodle collar; but the offer of a deposit of two hundred pounds or so gave a different aspect to the case. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
A smaller packet of the aforesaid tape-tied paper peeps from either pocket; they look right on, and hasten forward as if the fortunes of half the world rested upon their shoulders, and the wisdom in the briefs at their elbow had all been distilled from the skull covered by that napless hat. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852] Reference
The man who spoke was of the shabbiest appearance, wearing an almost napless high hat, a coloured linen shirt which should have been at the laundress's, no neck-tie, a frock-coat with only one button, low shoes terribly down at heel; for all that, the most jovial-looking man, red-nosed, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Are you ready for a napless child?. From Wordnik.com. [A grump, a poem, and a meme walked into a bar...] Reference
The napless vesture of humility. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
Are dyed as rusty as his napless hat. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
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