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He wore a superfine black dress coat, a gaudy vest, and buff corduroy trousers so short that they displayed to advantage his enormous bare feet. Beside him was an elderly man with tweed trousers, a white shirt and brown shooting coat, and a face not quite so solemn but very sedate. Some of the men had boots, some had black silk hats, others wideawakes, which of course they removed on entering.
They had thousands to choose from bowlers, caps, wideawakes, all kinds of commonplace head-gear and here they have selected for their sport this cylinder of silk, symbolical of all most worthy of the city's respect.
The Makololo, who had been sent down to Benguela, came to pay the travellers a visit, dressed in well-washed shirts, coats, and trousers, patent leather boots, and brown wideawakes on their heads. They had a long conversation with their men about the wonderful things they had all seen.
He was a High Churchman, but wore a felt wideawake in winter because when he bought it wideawakes were the fashion for High Churchmen. In the summer he usually roved about his parish without any hat at all, his white curls flying in the wind. He was of gentle birth, which tended to ease his intercourse with the Castle.
These comforts protected from the sun, which was deep hid behind a purple nimbus, an equal number of great men in absurd red nightcaps or old felt wideawakes, shirts of coloured cotton, and second-hand waistcoats of silk or satin. The only signs of luxury were here and there a well-carved ebony stick, and a gunstock resplendent with brass tacks.
He had friends who were in the ministry, and he derived great benefits from their teaching. The truth is that Gordon thought more of the man than he did of the profession or calling. Shovel hats, wideawakes, long-tailed black coats, and white ties were nothing to him. What he valued was the man who was to be found beneath the clerical costume.
But they were now dressed for the most part in the costume of the Russian Monjik, while some of them appeared in American wideawakes and Kentucky frock coats, or in English stove-pipe hats and morning coats. A few of the stouter were in Highland costume. "You are amazed," said Boobenstein as we stood a moment looking at the motley crowd. "What does it mean?" I asked. "One moment," said the count.
The militia is riddled with rebels, and the rest are forming companies of minute men." "And you Black Republicans," the Captain cried "have organized your Dutch Wideawakes, and are arming them to resist Americans born." "They are Americans by our Constitution, sir, which the South pretends to revere," cried the Judge.
Their life in Toronto was very different to what it had been in the bush round hats, frock-coats, and Wellington boots, superseded wideawakes, shooting-jackets, and hobnailed shoes or mocassins; and their hammers, saws, and axes, were exchanged for books, while social meetings of various sorts occupied many of the evenings when there were no lectures to attend.
The militia is riddled with rebels, and the rest are forming companies of minute men." "And you Black Republicans," the Captain cried "have organized your Dutch Wideawakes, and are arming them to resist Americans born." "They are Americans by our Constitution, sir, which the South pretends to revere," cried the Judge.
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