"Billycock hat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Smith took me to a hatter's shop and chose a billycock hat for me, in place of the soft felt ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... opened, and a man between thirty and forty came in. He was about the medium height; a dark olive skin, black curly hair, picturesque and disreputable, like a bird of prey in his blue Melton jacket and billycock hat. ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... ease the ascent. It was evident, from his heaving shoulders and depressed head, that the burly gentleman was exerting himself. The clerical person on the tricycle assumed the shape of a note of interrogation. Then on the heels of this procession came a dogcart driven by a man in a billycock hat and containing a lady in ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... fair, slight, and horsey. His stiff, tight choker, his horse-shoe pin, the cut of his breeches, his alert and wary air of a man of the world, all betrayed the racing-lad. From the corner of his mouth hung a cigarette waggishly a-rake; and his billycock had just the correct and knowing cock. He kept well under the lee of the tent; and if he was brazen, it was clear that he was sinning and fearful of discovery: for he had one eye always on the watch for the Avenging Angel who might swoop down on ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant |
