silk-hatted

He met a business man, silk-hatted and frock-coated, who had crept, too, along that smooth wall and stood now stone dead with wonder written on his lips.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

"Equality of sacrifice? that's the big idea, friends!" says the silk-hatted figure at the top.

Budget 2010: Osborne's claims of fairness are now exposed as a fraud 2010

Battie believed that madness could, and would, respond to treatment, unlike his rival, Dr John Monro, the suave, silk-hatted society doctor and trader in lunacy whose descendants were to dominate Bethlem Hospital for four generations.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Battie believed that madness could, and would, respond to treatment, unlike his rival, Dr John Monro, the suave, silk-hatted society doctor and trader in lunacy whose descendants were to dominate Bethlem Hospital for four generations.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Battie believed that madness could, and would, respond to treatment, unlike his rival, Dr John Monro, the suave, silk-hatted society doctor and trader in lunacy whose descendants were to dominate Bethlem Hospital for four generations.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Men, silk-hatted or plus-foured, who guided the machine of tropic enterprise, of mineral getting, of great shops, of railway building, of concessions here and there and everywhere.

Maid in Waiting 2004

Almost all of them wore ankle-length great coats or topcoats, half the men seemed to wear pince-nez glasses, and when the older men, the silk-hatted men, passed an acquaintance, each touched his hat brim in salute with the head of his cane.

Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

The door was opened, and a silk-hatted man stepped out and passed rapidly into the War

Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

The silk-hatted visitor was obviously a messenger from King George.

Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

Her companion was a man apparently of middle age, frock-coated, silk-hatted, booted and gloved as if for Rotten Row.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray