"Wait until I get my broad-brimmed hat, the sun is hot up here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
All wore hoods or broad-brimmed hats to keep the rain from their heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
He thumbed his broad-brimmed hat back from his forehead and looked up at the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Destroyers] Reference
On journeys women wore a light broad-brimmed petasos as a protection from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The broad-brimmed hats that the farmers wore told the slave that they were Quakers. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
In the shade of the trees (it was a hot day) he removed his gray, broad-brimmed hat. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
An old broad-brimmed felt hat was jammed over his forehead, almost covering his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
In a broad-brimmed hat that matched her muslin gown she went down the steps to his car. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
His broad-brimmed hat and two-thirds of his face were just lifted above the window-sill. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
She wore a broad-brimmed jimmy hat and an old gingham dress faded to a soft mellowed pink. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
She was in blue this morning, and wore at an angle a broad-brimmed hat trimmed with black and white. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Then, rising, she took off her broad-brimmed Panama, and began gently pulling the pins from Mary's hat. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
He is distinguished by a pointed beard, and is seen in a front view, having on a broad-brimmed hat, and. 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
Marty contrived to make a basket of her broad-brimmed brown straw hat, in which she carefully placed her flowers. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
His black hair is neatly combed and his broad-brimmed hat that hangs over my own on the wall, is but three days old. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The chamber gave him a broad-brimmed hat; the President, smiling, promised to try it on back home at the White House. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference
Macedonian broad-brimmed hat, and so smuggled her into the King, without being detected, as one of the King's young men. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Having purchased passage, Oswald is at the wharf, disguised in ill-fitting duster and broad-brimmed hat, ready to embark. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Fuller, in his shirt-sleeves and a broad-brimmed straw hat, was pottering about his garden with a wheelbarrow and a pair of shears. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Weston as the men on the ponies put up their pistols, placed their broad-brimmed hats on their heads and rode along beside the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
I remember her so clearly, working here, in a broad-brimmed hat, with a pair of my father's gloves on her hands, while I played near by. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Nannie gave one glance at his old broad-brimmed straw hat and rusty overalls, and then said with a certain winning sauciness all her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
His snuff-colored breeches were dripping before me -- his broad-brimmed hat floated on the current -- but his cane (thank Heaven!) had sunk forever. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
As he entered, the clerks saw a tall boy wearing a blouse shirt and cottonade trousers, and having on his head a broad-brimmed straw hat well set back. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
In his right hand he held a staff and his large, broad-brimmed hat was drawn down slightly over his visage as if to protect it from the heat of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Californian, with the peculiar high, broad-brimmed hat, with a fancy cord, and we walked together back to Pryor's, where I left him with General Kearney. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He wore his broad-brimmed black hat with the high crown uncreased, and only for the lack of boots and pistol he might have passed for a man of the range. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Immediately a man stepped forth -- a strange, weird-looking man -- in old clothes, high boots with red Jersey mud on them, and a broad-brimmed slouch hat. From Wordnik.com. [Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill] Reference
On his head he wore a high, bell-shaped, broad-brimmed hat, from which depended a long, sky-blue veil, which he used to protect his eyes from the sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
He was ever ready to talk with Janice Day, however, and he came out of the paddock now, in his old dust coat and broad-brimmed hat, smiling cordially at her. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
When he'd exchanged his broad-brimmed black felt working-hat for another just the same, but unsweated, Aaron was dressed as he'd be on his way to a House-Amish. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
"Well, here we are!" cried Nort Shannon, flinging his broad-brimmed hat into the air, and catching it on the end of his .45 before the headpiece could touch the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
For dress was adopted a capote, such as was common in the country, made of coarse material, and black; together with a black cassock, thick shoes, and a broad-brimmed hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The little old gentleman's face relaxed -- he took off his broad-brimmed hat, and laid it down with his cane carefully on the table, then seized my hand and shook it heartily. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
A tall man dressed in a gray frock coat and broad-brimmed hat -- the garments so often affected by the Western politician -- was pacing slowly up the aisle with Grace and Cora. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
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