slouch-hatted

The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

Voiced by the otherwise unseen Otto Forrest, The Whistler is a slouch-hatted, trench-coated silhouette of a man who whistles a hauntingly discordant, halting tune as he strolls by night; because he walks the streets after dark, he "knows things" about the people who have"stepped into the shadows of life."

Archive 2006-03-05 2006

Voiced by the otherwise unseen Otto Forrest, The Whistler is a slouch-hatted, trench-coated silhouette of a man who whistles a hauntingly discordant, halting tune as he strolls by night; because he walks the streets after dark, he "knows things" about the people who have"stepped into the shadows of life."

Thoughts on Columbia's WHISTLER Series 2006

They were folded now over the breasts of buried generations; but a flutter or two lived again in the turned page of shock-headed slouch-hatted loiterers whose young intensity of type, in the direction of pale acuteness, deepened his vision, and even his appreciation, of racial differences, and whose manipulation of the uncut volume was too often, however, but a listening at closed doors.

The Ambassadors 2003

The hills in the still, sparkling moonlight looked as if chiselled out of iron, and the veldt lay spread out all white and misty; but what one thought most of was the presence of these dark-faced, slouch-hatted irregulars, sitting free and easy in their saddles, with the light gleaming dully on revolver and carbine barrel.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside.

A Son of the Sun 1912

They made a contrast, these half-moon lines of blocky men, to the lank, slouch-hatted, low-collared country delegates -- farmers, school teachers, country doctors and country lawyers -- who filled the seats behind them and on beyond them.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

No Southern silver-tongued orator of the old-time, string-tied, slouch-hatted, long - haired variety ever clung more closely to his official makeup than the English barrister clings to his spats, his shad-bellied coat and his eye-glass dangling on a cord.

Europe Revised 1910

Men and women were rushing desperately about in search of conveyances, and in the midst of this confusion, undismayed, debonnair, I spied a rugged, slouch-hatted figure standing under a lamp -- the unmistakable American soldier.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Men and women were rushing desperately about in search of conveyances, and in the midst of this confusion, undismayed, debonnair, I spied a rugged, slouch-hatted figure standing under a lamp -- the unmistakable American soldier.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909