Looking for sentences and phrases with the word billycock? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Slaves wore a hat called a billycock, which was similar to the kind of hat that was worn by the British army.
The dog-collar seller tips his billycock and disappears, but his luckless companion, having fetched a small black object out of his knapsack, lingers.
The billycock hat was designed for him and named after him.
Shortly before John Fowles's The Collector appeared, Enid Blyton deployed a couple of collectors in her 1957 Famous Five adventure, Five Go to Billycock Hill: her depiction of two myopic butterfly-lovers is slyly homophobic.
Examples from Classical Literature
And beside this hole, little the worse for five weeks in the open, lay Joe Gregory's billycock hat.
Blobby takes off his billycock, thrusts the remnant of food therein, and puts it on.
Then on the heels of this procession came a dogcart driven by a man in a billycock hat and containing a lady in dark green.
The blow effectually spoilt the billycock, however, and stretched its owner insensible on the floor.
I had noted the hats of that elect assemblage, and there had not been a billycock among them.
I don't know what he looks like now in that greatcoat and billycock hat.
The price of a glass, and billycock would have been there too.
Wear your billycock at the back of your head, as it will break your falls.
I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags, my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous.
