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One of the boys purchased an entire suit of clothes; and when he made his appearance among the others, in his nice blue jacket, with bright buttons, his pantaloons to match, and his blue navy-cap, he was greeted with cheers. One and another examined his wardrobe, and all enjoyed his success. "Who are you? Who'd think this was Charley ? Is this a news-boy?
- The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories

The little man wore a white canvas navy-cap; but his appearance was dirty and disreputable, and he had the aspect of a beggar. His visage was wizened and villainous and shot with pock-marks under a coppery stubble of red beard, and his little mole-like eyes were that close together that they seemed fastened to his nose. The clerk kept me waiting for signatures, and finally handed out my gold.
Frederick Ferdinand Moore - The Devil's Admiral

"Small chap, in a white navy-cap, and 'air red as the sun in the Gulf of H'annam." Perhaps I should have told the policeman about Petrak, when I heard the cockney say he had seen a red-headed little man in a white navy-cap running away from the Flagship Bar.
Frederick Ferdinand Moore - The Devil's Admiral
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