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Examples
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During the summer we faded a green tam-o'shanter so that it would not look too new.
Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker
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But after a moment, at a recollection of sky-blue eyes underneath a sky-blue tam-o'shanter, he chuckled softly.
Red-Robin Jane Abbott
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He glanced sidewise and suspiciously at her but all he saw was a cherub face framed in a tilted sky-blue tam-o'shanter and straggling ends of flaming red hair.
Red-Robin Jane Abbott
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Margaret came blithely along, her tam-o'shanter being a little late in seasonable style, but so becoming that the detail was forgotten in the entire effect.
The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. Lilian Garis 1913
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Desire in a motor coat and a dark-blue velvet hat rather like an artist's tam-o'shanter.
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Their two figures attracted some attention in the crowded street, for Hilary-tall and slight, with his thin, bearded face and soft felt hat -- was what is known as "a distinguished-looking man"; and the little model, though not "distinguished-looking" in her old brown skirt and tam-o'shanter cap, had the sort of face which made men and even women turn to look at her.
Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900
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Hilary-tall and slight, with his thin, bearded face and soft felt hat -- was what is known as "a distinguished-looking man"; and the little model, though not "distinguished-looking" in her old brown skirt and tam-o'shanter cap, had the sort of face which made men and even women turn to look at her.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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For an hour or more the lama's tam-o'shanter showed like a moon through the haze; and, from all he heard, Kim gathered that the old woman wept.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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One morning, early in June, Dorise, in a rough tweed suit and a pearl-grey suede tam-o'shanter, carrying a mackintosh across her shoulder, and accompanied by a tall, dark-haired, clean-shaven man of thirty-two, with rather thick lips and bushy eyebrows, walked down through the woods to the river.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo William Le Queux 1895
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He seemed to have just scrambled out of a dust-bin in a tam-o'shanter cap and a tattered soldier's coat much too long for him.
Chance Joseph Conrad 1890
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