How To Use Slouch hat In A Sentence
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But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like.
Isabelle
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Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.
Monsieur Lecoq
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The single fellows had no such doubts (much); beneath me a bunch in slouch hats and jeans were passing the jug around boisterously, and one with a melodeon was striking up:
Isabelle
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They wheeled, graceful as gulls, whoever their partners-elegant, hatchet-faced dagoes in mangas, red-faced sports sodden on Taos whisky or vino, bearded miners in slouch hats and red shirts, or great clumsy buckskin brigadeers who whooped and yelled and capered like Indians.
Isabelle
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Men were returning home in thousands upon thousands, shedding their khaki uniforms and slouch hats for civvies.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Chesterfieldian walk, and the big slouch hat, turned into the road.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days
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Trench coats, slouch hats and Tommy guns were dusted off and called into service again, at least until new cues could be established.
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On the other side of the blanket, Edna Collins was going at it with a dark-skinned gandy dancer while two more waited outside, their hands stuffed in their canvas coat pockets, their slouch hats pulled low over their ears as protection against the wind.
Rain Gods
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The disguise which Darke has adopted -- the mere shaving off moustaches and donning a dress of home-wove "cottonade" -- the common wear of the Louisiana Creole -- with slouch hat to correspond, is too flimsy to deceive Captain Jim Borlasse, himself accustomed to metamorphoses more ingenious, it is nothing new for him to meet a murderer fleeing from the scene of his crime -- stealthily, disguisedly making way towards that boundary line, between the United States and
The Death Shot A Story Retold
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The teamsters, surly and self-contained, wear slouch hats and great cowhide boots; while the stage-drivers, their faces seamed by the hardship and exposure of their long drives with every kind of team, through every kind of country, and in every kind of weather, proud of their really wonderful skill as reinsmen and conscious of their high standing in any frontier community, look down on and sneer at the "skin hunters" and the plodding drivers of the white-topped prairie schooners.
The Cattle Country of the Far West
