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  • She wore a tam-o '- shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown

    Chapter 18 2010

  • The "beret" which Bixler is pictured wearing is in fact a British army "Tam O 'shanter" also known as a

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • "On the Everest climb, after I came through the ice-fall, I saw a man sitting on an outcrop in the lotus position, with his eyes shut and a tartan tam -- o" -- shanter on his head, chanting the old mantra: om mani padm" hum. "

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Then you want a lamb's wool night wrapper, a neutral grey or brown in color, a set of heavy night flannels, some heavy woollen stockings and a woollen tam o 'shanter large enough to pull down over the ears.

    A Woman Tenderfoot Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

  • Estelle and ran into a big fat man who was wearing stiff leather gaiters and a tam o 'shanter.

    The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

  • Her mass of dark hair was tucked under a green tam o 'shanter perched at an unconsciously rakish angle.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • Sylvia was worth watching as she pulled her tam o 'shanter over her head, her face all aglow.

    The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge

  • This consisted of a very short and rotund man with hair a la Paderewski and a frilled evening shirt, a thin man of incredible stature and lank black locks, and a pretty young girl in a tunic, a tam o 'shanter, enormous green hairpins, and tiny patent-leather shoes decorated with three inch heels.

    The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

  • Then a splendid looking fellow in a red tunick and a sort of black velvit tam a [Pg 67] shanter stepped forward from the throng shouting what name please.

    The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan Daisy Ashford 1926

  • He looked down at the rough sketch again, with its clean-cut satire, and up again at the little girl in the school coat and the faded red tam o 'shanter, who was looking at him shyly, and defiantly, and provokingly, all at once.

    Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

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