blue-cap

Updated: May 3, 2025

Or the description of the blue-cap, and of the noontide silence, page 284; or the poem to the cuckoo, page 299; or, lastly, though I might multiply the references to ten times the number, to the poem, so completely Wordsworth's, commencing "Three years she grew in sun and shower"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria

'Gentlemen! humph! said Crackenthorp 'not a blue-cap among them but halts upon that foot. Then seizing on a dish which still contained a huge cantle of what had been once a princely mutton pasty, he placed it on the table before the stranger, saying, 'There, master gentleman; there is what is worth all the black pies, as you call them, that were ever made of sheep's head.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet