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  • But before the house a girl stood on the grass, with her kapje in her hand, to see the six big men ride by.

    Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • It was a woman in loose black garments, with a starched white coif like a Dutchwoman's kapje, covered with a floating black veil.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • For a while she stood saying nothing, only wiping her face, as though filth had bespattered it, with the sun _kapje_ which had fallen from her head, and her face was whiter than the white cap.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Whatever the cause, in my youth, I was not like the other Boer girls, who for the most part are stout, heavy, and slow of speech, even before they are married, nor did I need to wear a _kapje_ to keep a pink and white face from burning in the sun.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • a flower wet with dew in her girdle, swinging her _kapje_ by its strings while the first rays of the sun glistened on the waves of her brown and silk-like hair.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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