Not wearing a bowler in the city of London in the 40's would have been like not wearing a tie with a pinstripe. From LearnThat.org.
Think (assuming you grew up with the Guardian and BBC) bone-headed bigots in bowler hats. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-11] Reference
Fender is a slow spin bowler, and the others fast, to which our batsmen were not accustomed. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Play Cricket] Reference
The little governess shrank into her corner as four young men in bowler hats passed, staring through the door and window. From Wordnik.com. [Bliss, and Other Stories] Reference
A very fine attitude is fixed for the artist in one of Muybridge's instantaneous series of the "bowler" -- the cricket "bowler.". From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The bowler is a teenager, and he bowls quite quickly. From Wordnik.com. [English-writing Israeli-bloggers] Reference
'That's just it,' they say; 'perfect to break a bowler's heart.'. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Panesar is a mechanical bowler, which is not always such a handicap. From Wordnik.com. [Monty Panesar sets out in search of his old self at Sussex] Reference
Steven FinnBig, tall into-the-wicket type bowler, which is essential here. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashes 2010: Duncan Fletcher's and Stuart Clark's player analysis] Reference
He's better known as a bowler at the moment but he has a future as a genuine all-rounder. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I sez to Fat Bob Napper, vot reckons e's king o 'the odds an' evens - ` Napper, 'sez I, ` that's a'ead bowler, that is. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
"He once said he used to imagine that there was no wicketkeeper and that he and the bowler were the only two in the game.". From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
The fact that the bowler was my four year old grandson had nothing to do with it. alf p 12: 55am Sunday 13th December 2009 EST. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Well, I'll trudge it on foot with umbrella and "bowler,". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
The free-agent slugger could get his answer when he faces a cricket "bowler" in the coming weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Professional Dabblers] Reference
He is a kind of bowler who can bowl 30 overs a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
The hatter in London where I purchased a new "bowler," had. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
Indeed, there is nothing like a 'bowler' to make a foreigner look English. From Wordnik.com. [With Zola in England]
He took off his hat -- a glossy "bowler" such as she particularly detested. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
There is a "bowler" roughly equivalent to a pitcher and a "batsmen" not unlike a batter. From Wordnik.com. [Crimson White RSS] Reference
But there might be some surface later on in the series that requires the kind of bowler Harmison is. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He had bought a couple of tweed cricket caps, and these we assumed, sending our "bowler" hats to the cloak-room. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Hewitt, Investigator] Reference
"Look, I am a different kind of bowler, with different style. From Wordnik.com. [���T20 hasn't affected my bowling��� ��� Piyush Chawla] Reference
A frock-coat combined with a turn-down collar and a "bowler" hat, and never loved him any more. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth and Her German Garden] Reference
How does a swing bowler maximise what he is given?. From Wordnik.com. [England's James Anderson is the real deal ? a genuine swing bowler] Reference
"I'm wearing a bowler hat, it just made sense," said. From Wordnik.com. [Band Rocks, Bowls for Dollars] Reference
My favorite was a red bowler, a man's hat, which I never dared wear outside my tiny bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Hat Shop Girls] Reference
Dark-suited, bowler-hatted loyalists marched down to the rope, stopped and politely turned around. From Wordnik.com. [MARCHING TOWARD CIVILITY] Reference
You look at Jimmy as a character and a bowler, and he's two different people now compared to then. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Flintoff: England will win the Ashes without me] Reference
She wore a bowler hat, a black tank top, a colorful, stencil-patterned skirt, ankle boots and tons of jewelery. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe Kravitz Mixes And Matches At SPIN Magazine Party: Love It Or Leave It? (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
Jason affects a bowler hat a la Clockwork Orange (I wish I could say I made this reference but my girl Valerie did). From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2] Reference
They would cover their own barren terrain creatively, with baseball caps, bowler hats, and even the occasional feathered fedora. From Wordnik.com. [toupee] Reference
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