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Down this street Mahony walked, in the surtout, light trousers and bell-topper which he still preferred to the careless attire of
The Way Home 2003
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And the devil began yelling, but he could not move, and Billy kept drawing the nose out till it was long enough to reach over the window, when he put an old bell-topper on the end of it.
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories P. H. [Editor] Emerson
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He was blazing drunk, was in evening dress, wore a black bell-topper, and kid gloves.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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They thowt they were big swells, and had on black coats, white shirts, stiff collars up to their ears, red and green neck-handkerchers, and bell-topper hats; so I just touched one of em on th 'showder and said:' Would you please tek your hats off to let th 'lads see th' pictures? '
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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