The officer had a very intricate cockade on her hat. From LearnThat.org.
"Would you wear the red cockade if she should ask you?". From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
I saw then what I had long since forgotten -- a "cockade.". From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Stories of royalist revels and open insults to the cockade of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
Jackson's surrender, I never saw a Rebel cockade openly worn in St. Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
Their distinctive badge was to be a blue cockade, and their cry, "No Popery!". From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The cockade on the hat is the privilege abroad of ambassadors; it is bad form. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
The French tri-colour gave place to the black cockade, a symbol of patriotism in. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
"There," said she, "my red cockade;" and turning quickly, she ran into the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
At the same time Holroyd called upon him to remove the blue cockade from his hat. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
"We had a full view of Mr. Waistcott as he went to the gallows with a white cockade in his hat.". From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Joseph, the coachman, clad in a dark green, gold-buttoned livery and wearing a cockade on his hat. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Hanoverian succession; the black cockade being the Hanoverian badge, the white that of the Stuart. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
The Allied Sovereigns are there, and the white cockade is universal; an immediate peace is certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
If ever I should conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black-cockade. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
In the long gallery, and in the apartments, the ladies no longer allow the tricolor cockade to circulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
He "stuck a cockade in his hat" and made shift to pass for a soldier on leave; or he laid furtive hands on. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
She wore the large black Alsatian head dress, in one corner of which was pinned a small tri-colored cockade. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Besides, I loved the costumes (it was an illustrated Shakespeare), the velvet breeches, white cockade. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
He was armed with a musket and bayonet, and wore a black cockade in his hat, as it appeared, by way of defiance. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
The black cockade worn by the officers of the army and navy is the relic of a custom which probably dated from the. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
Soon after, the sergeant would be called in to pin a cockade on his hat and give him the King's shilling to enlist him. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
The next moment he saw advancing up his shaded avenue two ladies on horseback, followed by a groom with a black cockade. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The hopes of the family, with a cockade in his hat, and riding upon papa's cane, seems much dissatisfied with female sway. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The fallen hero, who with his chair and goblet has tumbled to the floor, by the cockade in his hat, we suppose to be an officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Several tore off their cockades, and took that of the Queen, the black Austrian cockade, devoting themselves to her service. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
The 4th of July (1798) was celebrated with unusual enthusiasm all over the United States, and the black cockade was generally worn. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
This was frequently a piece of evergreen, worn on the bonnet, and placed, during the insurrection of 1745, beside the white cockade. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Lord Kilmarnock ran down stairs immediately, went up to the soldier, struck the hat off his head, and set his foot on the black cockade. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
His courage and presence of mind had saved him; he was now in a friendly country, and the first man he met was wearing the King's cockade!. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
His waistcoat was of gold brocade with a spangled fringe, set out in scollops, and the white cockade in his hat was studded with diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Charles's body guards; his marching into Carlisle at the head of his troops, with a white cockade in his cap; his presence at the battle of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Drusilla in riding togs still managed to preserve the picturesque quality of her beauty -- a cockade in her hat, a red flower in her lapel. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
France had posed hitherto as an auxiliary, her officers in Germany had worn the Bavarian cockade, and only with England was she officially at war. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The crowds pushed and jostled, and beyond the first line or two at the curb no one among them could get more than an occasional glimpse of a stray cockade or a floating banner. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
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