considering cap

Example Sentences

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I've worn my considering cap most of the time I've been away from you—and, Mav, I'm going to lay to heart the fruits of my experience.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

This morning I put on my considering cap an' was a-thinking and a-thinking when who should pop her face in but my cousin Betty Higgins as lives at Hampstead.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward

I could not refrain from glancing over it on the spot, and I perceive I shall have to put on my sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Michael was always chary of words, and all night they had noticed that what they called his "considering cap" had been well drawn over his brows.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Then he climbed back to the bench and sat himself down, and put on his considering cap to pass sentence.

From Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Dulac, Edmund