tam o'shanter

Example Sentences

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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.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

The scent of pine on the frosty air and the knowledge that her new sweater and tam-o'shanter were quite as pretty as the prettiest there, transformed Jerry into a new Jerry.

From Highacres by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

She went out obediently, walking up and down the paths with her hands in her jacket pockets, and her red tam-o'shanter pulled down over her eyes.

From The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

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.

From The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. by Garis, Lilian

With little murmurs of explanation by way of accompaniment, she proceeded to invest Desire in a motor coat and a dark-blue velvet hat rather like an artist's tam-o'shanter.

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)