How To Use Bonnet In A Sentence
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As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight.
Sole Music
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Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
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Her mouth opened, and stayed so, as her pale eyes widened under the close bonnet she wore.
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But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
Wuthering Heights
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Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
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Blue Bonnet sighed deeply as she recalled the averted tragedy.
Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
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And there are no bonnets or bowler hats.
The Sun
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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It has a carbon fibre bonnet, the rear windows are plastic and the radio and air-con are ditched.
The Sun
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The Pontiac was travelling north along Bonnet Creek Road in the left-hand filter lane while the Ford van was travelling south on the inside lane, according to police in Florida.
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He was working under the bonnet when it burst into flames.
The Sun
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GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Then there were silk gowns, and velvet and satin ones added to these; laces, too, and embroideries; bonnets and gloves; for the corbeille had been of rare quality.
The Awakening
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A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it.
Kenilworth
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The bonnet and boot lid are carbon fibre and the brakes carbon ceramic Why should I care?
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove the thyme stalks, scotch bonnet and spring onion before serving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor the pedestrians and cyclists it will flatten, who would have rolled safely off the bonnet of a smaller vehicle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’ resembles an elaborate bonnet to be worn on special occasions for the more fashion forward among the fae.
Fairies Part One « Fairegarden
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They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
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In the very last pew, on the aisle, sat an eager old colored woman -- one of those typical "mammies" now so seldom seen -- in an old-fashioned bonnet and shawl.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
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Under its bonnet lies an engine like no other in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hem – m – that one with the flaxen curls under her bonnet is Miss Day.
The Hidden Hand
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In the outside lane is a silver Discovery, stopped, but looking fine. Behind it is a large white van with a spare-wheel shaped crumple in the bonnet.
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Bottles roll clanking on the floor, under the bonnet a hung-up tappet or two chatters its story of discomfort.
Gravity's Rainbow
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The fatal bonnet lay on the table of the Court; Bargally swore that it was the identical article worn by the man who robbed him; and he and others likewise deponed that they had found the accused on the spot where the crime was committed, with the bonnet on his head.
Additional Note
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The front bonnet affords extra crumple space in the event of an accident, and both driver and passenger airbags are standard.
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients.
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Easter bonnets and egg hunts are surprisingly popular.
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Who was that strange looking lady with the colourful bonnet hurrying along the road and what was that peeping out of her basket?
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We step out (dive out) and look through the bonnet's grill - yep, there are flames alright.
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Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Christmas lunch is over, the Queen's on the telly and great-grandma's in the corner sipping gin and Dubonnet.
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Between the windows is a cherry bonnet-top chest-on-chest, about 1760-1780, with its original brasses.
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The accommodation is unchanged and the five-door bodyshell looks the same as the battery sits under the floor and the power electronics are under the bonnet.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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They often looked quite picturesque, the womenfolk in their bonnets and the men folk in their straw hats.
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I took the van back to Cooper's and had them put a red cross on the bonnet.
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It was a straw bonnet with light blue lace ribbon around it.
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Also called the bonnet, the chimney cap is the cornice at the top of the chimney.
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No, the biggest drawback was the fact that under the bonnet it had a paraffin stove.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dancing on the bonnet of your Model A, or perhaps charging around on your horse, hooting savagely and bullwhipping innocent bystanders.
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(This results in a sort of bonnet-mobcap thing, which looks a bit coy, but is necessary.)
Toast:
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It invited owners to visit their local dealership to have the bonnet catch inspected and replaced free of charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe it's the beribboned high waistlines, maybe it's the delicate petticoats or maybe it's those slightly ridiculous bonnets, but whatever the reason, behind-the-hand sniggers are a certainty.
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The antique vehicle is also a treat to look at, with its red coachwork, gold lining on the bonnet, antique lamps and a wicker picnic basket on the side.
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
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The technique was commonly used for different kinds of headgear, such as caps, hoods, bonnets, hairnets and snoods, as well as for stockings, mittens, collars and sashes.
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Freshly installed spouse Sophie, meanwhile, has only just stopped short of draping herself across the bonnets of sports cars in ermine and tiara.
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I love the long bonnet, in-your-face grille and bulging curves of the rear.
The Sun
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The images below show an assortment typical of the many types of calico sun bonnets which we have.
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The poke of her black bonnet hid her face from him.
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He can crack a good one-liner, but his instinct is to open up the bonnet of a joke and see what interests him inside it.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the region's playgroups and nurseries it has been a feast of babies, bonnets and bunnies in the lead-up to Easter.
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The technique was commonly used for different kinds of headgear, such as caps, hoods, bonnets, hairnets and snoods, as well as for stockings, mittens, collars and sashes.
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I egged her on, and we got her into the long coat, and adjusted the broad-brimmed bonnet and veil, and I jammed the shoes on her feet, and gloved her, and stuck the gamp in her hand -- and when she managed to stand, leaning against the table, she looked as much like the outward picture of a lady as made no odds.
Flash For Freedom
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They moved the engine from the bonnet to the cabin and added a propeller, rudder and tiller.
The Sun
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A respected art dealer is busted for selling a Cheyenne war bonnet.
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I stopped by the post office this afternoon and met these fellows in a patch of bluebonnets.
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Women walk the streets in bonnets and trousers under long dresses.
June 2005
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While there he claimed to have gained his closest access to the monarch, carrying food to her apartments, serving her gin and Dubonnet, and delivering mail to her room.
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Rising over the bonnet and windscreen, the airflow is smooth.
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The court was then told how, on May 30, Howarth caused another £100 of damage to Mr Hopkin's car after pummelling the bonnet with clenched fists.
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He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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And there are no bonnets or bowler hats.
The Sun
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Nodding and smiling at Mr. and Mrs. Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms.
Hide and Seek
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Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the
Life: Its True Genesis
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Well, give us your bonnet, and then you 'scooch' down, and I'll pull you through.
Little Prudy
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a foot-stool in front of the firemaking a kind of arbour of the dining-table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People
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Progress was slow - is there really a 2-litre engine under the bonnet?
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Large rounded headlamps, swaged bonnet and indicators integrated into the front grille give the vehicle a jovial appearance, accentuated by the deep front bumper.
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They moved the engine from the bonnet to the cabin and added a propeller, rudder and tiller.
The Sun
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Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type.
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As he walked away he was seen using his heel to dent the car door before kicking a wing mirror and taking out a key, which he dragged over the bonnet.
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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But we have reached a point where a road car simply cannot handle the potency of the engine under the bonnet.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a bee in his bonnet about the anniversary celebration.
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That there was some danger in the attempt I knew, but it had been minimized by the philibeg and hose, the Glengarry bonnet and Macleod plaid which I had donned at the instance of Malcolm.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
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Bonnet also published on cartography, algebra, rational mechanics and mathematical physics.
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She emerges in these pages as a spirited old bird, who likes a large gin and Dubonnet before lunch, prefers to brew her own tea, and can do a mean Irish accent.
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In the original historic area, authentic shopfronts tempt visitors inside to buy three-cornered hats and bonnets, quills and ink, block-printed stationery and sealing wax, candles, soaps, hams, jams, brass and pewter.
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General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.
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Next morning, when the family met at the breakfast-board, they were not a little surprised to hear Wallace recount the adventure of the night; and while Loch-awe promised every kindness to the shepherd, and a messenger was despatched with a purse to Archibald, Edwin learnt from the earl's servant, that his reason for supposing the regent was gone to his room arose from the sight of his bonnet in the outer hall.
The Scottish Chiefs
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What!" thought the Author, "shall the Great Secret which has puzzled so many heads -- heads in caps and heads in turbans, heads in bonnets and heads in berettas, as Heine hath it -- shall the explanation of the
Without Prejudice
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In the office she stood, a middle-aged lady (close on two-and-forty years old) bonnetless and capless, amid a posse of young clerks: the telegraph operator, the messenger, the indoor clerk, the postman: to whom she was an object of unending curiosity.
Ultima Thule
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He has a bee in his bonnet about the anniversary celebration.
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Henry Bellows commented in the Christian Inquirer, ‘Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze, and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?’
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Under the bonnet is a large hydrogen fuel tank that feeds the fuel cell.
Times, Sunday Times
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But we have reached a point where a road car simply cannot handle the potency of the engine under the bonnet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ma faither aye took a drappy ilka nicht, haudin 'his bonnet in his haun' the while.
St. Cuthbert's
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as I looked across the sea of tossing billycocks and rocking bonnets, my work, as I heard them give tongue, not once, but four times… I felt that I had secured Perfect Felicity.
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One was for prominent Bollywood directors, the other was for the Jane Austen society who turned up to the screening in Bath dressed in bonnets and top hats.
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She could see her husband hunching to release himself from the shelter of the tonga, too tall for its low bonnet.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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Under the bonnet is a weedy 1.6-litre engine.
The Sun
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A long dashboard reaches deep into the sloping windscreen with almost none of the bonnet visible as you peer over the dash.
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You can dress up a wolf in a bonnet and cape and pretend it's your granny, but - as another fable should have taught us long ago - it will still behave according to its nature.
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Remove the thyme stalks, scotch bonnet and spring onion before serving.
Times, Sunday Times
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She quickly braided her hair and tied a white ribbon at the end, grabbing a matching straw bonnet before heading downstairs to join her husband for breakfast.
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A piteous yelp from the lower regions at last announced that the thief was captured, and Tom appeared bearing Snip by the nape of the neck in one hand and Polly's cherished bonnet in the other.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Another way to reduce sail is to build a sail with removable sections called bonnets and drabbiers.
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Cynthia and her star-struck sister Befind go to London, the former to open a bonnet shop, which becomes a great success, and the other to pursue the study of astronomy.
By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson
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When I eventually stopped and lifted the bonnet, the noise seemed to be coming from the alternator.
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He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
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- 'Why, it is my daily pleasure now to look out for the little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf glancing through the trees in the lane, and to know that my quiet, shrewd, thoughtful companion and monitress is coming back to me: that I shall have her sitting in the room to look at, to talk to, or to let alone, as she and I please.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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If your garden space is limited, try planting bluebonnets in containers such as large clay pots, wooden barrels, or planter boxes.
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There's a round thing that fits in a hole to close the bonnet, and it's been jammed down very, very securely.
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Exposed the original brick walls, hung lamps with straw bonnets for shades, put in a small mahogany bar.
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I looked under the bonnet and clouds of smoke poured out.
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The front cut-outs on the bonnet have been sealed and air now flows in through the spoiler before heading to the brake ducts for extra cooling.
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Each wore a blue sash at hip level, a matching bonnet, silk stockings and black shoes with a buckle.
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He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
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Likewise the bonnet seems unnaturally long and the sweeping running boards belong to another era.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is boldly-styled and quite dynamic looking, and features large square headlamps, a sharply-curved and creased bonnet, a swooping roofline and an eye-catching side window design.
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Half a dozen parrots cut a brilliant green streak across our bonnet before disappearing into the looming darkness ahead.
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This sun hat frames the face very nicely and is reminiscent of the old prairie sun bonnets.
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In spring, the desert and mountains erupt into a vibrant carpet of spring flowers, including bluebonnets, bi-colored mustards, and numerous species of cactus such as prickly pear, claret cup and rainbow.
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Marianne and I have counted six new hats apiece of those girls ', -- _new_, you know, just out of the milliner's shop; and last Sunday they came out in such lovely puffed tulle bonnets!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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I will keep y'all posted as to whether this particular bee in the bonnet ever pollinates.
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He should be out eating quail egg sandwiches, drinking extra large balloons of brandy and snorting beluga caviar off the bonnet of a Lamborghini.
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Will he now concede that every time he jumped in a car pished out of his window licking brains this was a busted Baby P, a busted mother and child, a busted war hero, or some busted stars of tomorrow youths waiting to end up splattered over Guido's bonnet and in the morgue?
Mr GuF: Window Licker Calls For Lynching, Again
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There the narrow space allotted to spectators was thronged with hot faces under beavers, mutches, and sun-bonnets.
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Harry's always going around opening windows. He's got a bee in his bonnet about fresh air.
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Only his family don't look best pleased when he tells them they have to wear bonnets.
The Sun
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I've got substantial front-end damage - bumper, bonnet, cross-member and sill.
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The West Indian sauce is made from the exceedingly hot scotch bonnet pepper.
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She was trying to focus on a little bluebonnet oil painting that Foley had given her when Laura was born when she started to cry.
DANSVILLE
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He vailed his bonnet to no one but a judge.
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I once saw a Range Rover with a silver statuette of a prancing horse attached to its bonnet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Upgrade for the 7in touchscreen - but lose those naff bonnet stripes.
The Sun
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Twin exhaust tailpipes, one at either side of the car, are the only giveaway that a 3.0 litre V6 engine lies under the bonnet.
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We saw maroon bluebonnets (Who even knew there was such a thing?).
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Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Whilst they were thus speculating on the issue of the rencounter the valiant bonnet maker began to pull up Jezabel, in order that the smith, who he still concluded was close behind, might overtake him, and either advance first or at least abreast of himself.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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We are a broad church here, for some there is talk of different hats, the creative and the scholarly, for others the move is seamless, as if the baseball cap can be worn successfully under, or with, or instead of the mortar board or the bonnet.
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We would set out to warm her up by driving two miles in second gear with an old eiderdown over her bonnet.
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We've made cards for children in Africa, valentines for hospital patients, and Easter bonnets to sell at our fundraising auction.
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Check the electrics as these can be expensive to repair and take a long look under the bonnet for oil leaks.
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Only his family don't look best pleased when he tells them they have to wear bonnets.
The Sun
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_Christian Inquirer_, a Unitarian paper, edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows, of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of Woman's Rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in anything in public, he said: "Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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Under the bonnet many cars share a vast array of common parts and on the road they have some striking similarities.
Times, Sunday Times
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The price tag differed but underneath the bonnet and upholstery the cars are the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has taken out all the pins now, and has thrown her bonnet on to the lounge nearest to her, and is standing before the glass in the overmantel patting and pushing into order the soft locks that lie upon her forehead.
April's Lady A Novel
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She tried herself with it and without, then debated as to whether it looked better to give the impression of being one of the family by appearing bonnetless, or whether, on the other hand, it would not be more interesting to Ishmael if he got the impression of a visitor ... of someone who was not always about the house, who was to be seen outside.
Secret Bread
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The eastern district is delimited by the distribution of the endemic treelet Bonnetia roraimae; some genera endemic to this district include Quelchia, a shrubby member of the sunflower family, Connellia, in the Bromeliaceae, and Tepuia in the Ericaceae.
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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The damage to his car was a bent chassis leg, damage to the bonnet, two wings, bumper and cross member.
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I love the long bonnet, in-your-face grille and bulging curves of the rear.
The Sun
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The costume was too heavy, with a white bonnet that was the bane of my life.
Times, Sunday Times
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He opened the bonnet of the car.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bullets ricocheted off the bonnet and windscreen.
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Their shoulders were hunched against a light spring shower which gleamed on the bonnet of the Rolls.
THE LAST RAVEN
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She wore a black bonnet to match her dress and gloves; to Jeremiah she looked like an engraving he'd once seen of a restless soul in limbo.
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Off I set with kilt swirling, pipes skirling and feather bonnet flowing in what little wind there was.
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It sits low like a sports car with a long bonnet and a sleek coupé roof line.
The Sun
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A long dashboard reaches deep into the sloping windscreen with almost none of the bonnet visible as you peer over the dash.
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Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
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From inside his coat he produced her bonnet, battered and dirty.
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Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
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[She takes off wig, fluffs her own hair becomingly, and puts on bonnet, looking every inch a pretty young girl, ready for an automobile ride.]
Jack London Play: The Birth Mark
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There is a small compartment in the front bonnet area suitable for a couple of squashy holdalls and two very deep and useful cubby-holes set into the sill area on each side of the car.
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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The BMW's windscreen was smashed on the driver's side and the bonnet was left dented from the impact of the collision.
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A typical day in her life involves Earl Grey tea at 8am, a gin and Dubonnet before lunch, racing on TV in the afternoon and writing her diary in pencil before bed.
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My dad has a bee in his bonnet about buying a place abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was pensively turning one of the pieces in his hand, a crinolined woman wearing a beribboned bonnet languidly weeding a gulden path with a slender hoe.
The Lighthouse
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I get this lovely image of you sitting by a pleasant fire wrapped in shawls, wearing a deathshead bonnet and sipping hot chocolate from your skull cup, with gently tremorous hands.
My haul of Halloween skull stuff and a lot of screaming
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And then, lurking just under the bonnet of the polished civility, there is something angular and awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had the ethical bee in his bonnet and was a reformer of no mean pretension, though his work had been mainly in the line of contributions to the heavier reviews and quarterlies and to the publication over his name of brightly, cleverly written books on the working classes and the slum-dwellers.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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He was working under the bonnet when it burst into flames.
The Sun
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The tramp, as he seemed to be, marked her at once — bonnetless and unwrapped as she was her features were plainly recognizable — and with an air of friendly surprise came and leant over the wall.
A Changed Man
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I'm not some sort of Francophobe; Mr. Bonnet shared his aversion with me when I visited the factory in Sunset Park last week to make heart-shaped Ring Dings with him.
Ring Dings, From the Heart
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She had many bonnets, but the new style was a small hat that did nothing to shade the sun from your eyes but tied underneath your chin with beautiful silk strings.
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Does he live there?" asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster.
Walden~ Chapter 07 (historical)
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She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel.
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Under the bonnet many cars share a vast array of common parts and on the road they have some striking similarities.
Times, Sunday Times
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His frothy poster girls, rendered with a rapid, flamelike line, entice with the pleasures of the latest novel or glass of Dubonnet.
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She spoke with gravitas about the serious thought and hard work that had gone into making this Easter bonnet parade the event it was.
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Then raising his head, as if to see who spoke to him, he touched his Scotch bonnet with an air of respect, as he observed, “Eh, gude safe us! — it’s a sight for sair een, to see a gold-laced jeistiecor in the Ha’garden sae late at e’en.”
Rob Roy
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The instantly recognisable chrome mesh grille sits slightly lower but more upright to make the bonnet seem longer.
The Sun
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If married at home, the widow bride may wear a light silk and be bonnetless, but she should not indulge in any of the signs of first bridal.
Manners and Social Usages
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To be sure, the complications are not strictly lexical or even lexicographical: they stem chiefly from the differences between the kind of lexical alternation of the bonnet/hood, roundabout/traffic circle, dustman/garbage collector type and the type that is sociolinguistic and meaningless without some sort of acculturative comment, like tea, which occurs in both varieties of English but means quite different things in each, the Ashes, which doesn't occur at all in American English, and back bencher,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
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To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant.
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And just for pure bling, the bonnet has prism lights sprinkled on top.
The Sun
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And while these elderly gents may look faintly ridiculous when they troop out in their finery of tartan trews, Lincoln green tunics and feathered bonnets they are all serious people.
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On his arrival the criminals turned their guns on him, shooting his police car three times - damaging his vehicle bonnet, windshield and engine.
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Personally, I am dividing my time between the Orange Culture, and the Wrecker Culture (*), but Lowland Scots Culture is beginning to creep up in appreciation, much like a blue bonneted border reiver upon some English cattle (*).
Archive 2007-04-01
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The designers have also given the Ranger a new bonnet, grille, bumper and headlamps.
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Ambulances have 'AMBULANCE' printed in reverse on their bonnets.
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She glared around the circle of Sunday bonnets and hats.
CHARMED LIFE
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There were some tears of course, and one very minor tantrum, but all in all I think it is safe to say that the school Easter bonnet parade was a raging success with the critics.
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(Soundbite of song, "Borderline") Ms. YESENIA PUM (Writer, 826LA): (Reading) In the video, Madonna, dressed as a classic low rider chola in a forties-style hair bonnet, white wife-beater, long drape coat, and baggy pants that came up to her waist ...
'The Madonnas Of Echo Park': Residents, Reinvented
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Groovy youngsters strutting around on car bonnets?
Times, Sunday Times
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The bonnet is silly and it has a big fold down the middle because of the shipping.
Weekly
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Underneath the bonnet stretching out in front is Jaguar's lovely V8.
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I came by the position honestly, I assure you: after my tirade the other day about the vital importance of good lighting in a midwinter writing space, the proverbial bee seems to have remained in my bonnet, buzzily nagging — nay, demanding — that I move my studio to the brightest room in the house in genteel protest of the notorious darkness of a Seattle winter and the news in the last few issues of Publishers Weekly.
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Troy made a fabulous war bonnet and reported on the Plains Indians replete with buffalo, tepee, and travois information.
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To represent the Illini with a Plains Indian war bonnet, and to dress the mascot in the military regalia of a Sioux warrior, is therefore totally inaccurate.
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Then the royal procession, with Baroness Amos carrying the cap of maintenance, a sort of scarlet bonnet with red trim.
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On a walk through the five-acre garden you encounter great bushes of Blue Bonnet, whose huge flower heads vary from powder blue to cobalt.
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It is easily recognisable by the air intake on the bonnet which channels cool air over the supercharger, the roof spoiler and the centrally mounted twin chrome exhaust pipes.
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Bet she just thinks she beat us all," she thought as she laid her bonnet on the sitting-room sofa, where she had felt of the pillows, and the lambrequin which hung from the long shelf where the clock and vasts stood, on the opposite side of the room.
The Wind Before the Dawn
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He opened the bonnet of the car.
Times, Sunday Times
