6197 examples of cap in sentences

Her red and white stocking-cap had slipped free of her head and was hanging over her shoulder.

By the time they reached it, the snow was an inch deep on their shoulders, on Willie's cap, and on his father's hat.

Powers to relieve landlords of premises, by giving them legal possession, are given by 19 & 20 Vict., cap.

APPRENTICES.By the statute 5 Eliz. cap.

" "Nay," quoth Little John testily, at the same time rising carefully, as though his bones had been made of glass, "I can help myself, good fellow, without thy aid; and let me tell thee, had it not been for that vile cowskin cap of thine, it would have been ill for thee this day.

Gay was he, indeed, as Robin had said, and a fine figure he cut, for his doublet was of scarlet silk and his stockings also; a handsome sword hung by his side, the embossed leathern scabbard being picked out with fine threads of gold; his cap was of scarlet velvet, and a broad feather hung down behind and back of one ear.

While the others were talking, Jerry had made a little discovery that aroused both his curiosity and his temper: he had seen a touseled head, surmounted by a cap he knew full well, push up a little above the rim of the most elevated empty box, as if some concealed listener might be endeavoring to hear better, and in his eagerness recklessly exposed himself in this way.

The gray-haired chauffeur, cap in hand, stood back as a procession of boys and girls advanced upon Bob and Betty and their escort.

A superb specimen of over six feet of masculinity, the prince was picturesquely attired in Russian yachting-garb while a Cossack cap adorned a visage as bold and romantic as any young woman might wish to gaze upon.

A stiff toupet of white curls crowned the withered brow, below a widow's cap; and, when she smiled, which was not very often, a double row of pearls was not unpleasantly displayed.

WELL-DONE [and other SUITORS.] CAP.

He reached her, lifted his cap, and the sun glinted on a head of fiery red hair.

Then Perseus took off his cap, and stood upon the rock; and when the girl saw him with his long hair and wonderful eyes and laughing face, she thought him the handsomest young man in the world.

But the foot slipped, the soldier's cap tumbled to the ground, and every onlooker drew a gasp.

Mom-a say'"he pressed into her grasp something made of broadcloth, very red and golden"here yo' husband's cap.

He fought the scrimmage through with those unread pages folded slim between a thumb and forefinger, often using them to point out things, and when after it he had reopened them and read them throughand through againto their dizzying close, the battery surgeon came murmuring privately "Cap, what's wrong; bad news?" "Oh!" said Hilary, looking up from a third reading, "what, this?

Dropping his cap the master folded the bride's hands in his and pressed on them a long kiss.

The cap of youth.

As this, of course, was not the practice of the public stage, it was evident that the author must have had some specific instance in mind, and though it is not certain whether there was any personal intention in the allusion, the cap was made to fit, and for the supposed insult to the queen Prynne lost his ears.

Agustin de Vetancurt, Teatro Mexicano, Tratado II, cap.

See Bartholome de Alva, Confessionario en Lengua Mexicana, fol. 13 (Mexico, 1634); Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, cap.

The Nirvana of the Nahuas was for the soul to lie in dense smoke and darkness, filled with utter content, and free from all impressions ("en lo profundo de contento y obscuridad," Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, cap. 55).

de la Nueva España, Lib. X, cap.

Cronica Mexicana, cap.

in ipetl icpal; in a translation of an ancient song, Ixtlilxochitl renders the expression in ipetl icpal in teotl, "en el trono y tribunal de Dios," Historia Chichimeca, cap.

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