How To Use Cocked hat In A Sentence
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The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass.
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This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
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He is described as clad in black velvet; his hair was powdered and gathered behind in a silk bag; he wore knee and shoe buckles and yellow gloves; he held a cocked hat with a cockade and a black feather edging; and he carried a long sword in a scabbard of white polished leather.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism
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You have knocked the journalists of Wales into a cocked hat with that pealer.
So What's New
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Black - and - white televisions are knocked into a cocked hat by the modern color ones.
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The tourist trade depends too much on the cocked hat.
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My mother is such a good cook; she knocks anyone else into a cocked hat.
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A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
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At the last election, the Government won easily, knocking the Opposition into a cocked hat.
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Now the clause that really throws things into a cocked hat in this case is the one I have asterisked.
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This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
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For most of that time, only the cocked hat atop Nelson's head was visible above the thick green brattices attached to the scaffolding.
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As for the generals who go galloping up and down among bomb-shells in absurd cocked hats — as for the actors who raddle their faces and demean themselves for hire upon the stage — they must belong, thank
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
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The upcoming gala Golden Week respite from the daily folderol will put our publishing schedule into a cocked hat yet once again.
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She knocks the rest of the cast into a cocked hat.
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My mother is such a good cook; she knocks anyone else into a cocked hat.
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Black - and - white televisions a cocked hat by the modern color ones.
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A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
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My mother is such a good cook she knocks everybody else into a cocked hat.
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They knock all other mills into a cocked hat, I assure you.
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The governor wore a cocked hat trimmed with white feathers.
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The governor wore a cocked hat trimmed with white feathers.
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He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
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My mother is such a good cook she knocks everybody else into a cocked hat.
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There he stood calling hastily for a drink; and her heart more than her eyes took in his, to her, consecrated signalment -- the riding-boots, short clothes, blue coat, cocked hat, ruffles.
Balcony Stories
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This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
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He was equipped for instant duty, as far as the imperfect twilight would allow me to see; the long sword clanked upon the floor as he made his way through the lobbies which led to my place of confinement; his ample military cloak hung upon his arm; his cocked hat was upon his head, and in all points he was prepared for the road.
The Purcell Papers
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The cocked hat, which had been worn by some warrant officers and midshipmen, was replaced by this tall black hat for both ranks.
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This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
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A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
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Rusticus will point out to you "the auld-fashioned standin 'stane" -- on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig, -- Mr Urban will describe to you "a hieroglyphed monolith" in the terms following: --
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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My mother is such a good cook she knocks everybody else into a cocked hat.
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He went in his court dress, consisting of a richly embroidered brown silk-velvet coat and short breeches, white satin vest with fancy colored embroidery, white silk stockings and pumps, wig, bagwig, cocked hat, and dress sword.
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Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat.
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade
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She knocks the rest of the cast into a cocked hat.
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He wore, as I had often seen, a laced cocked hat, and was clad in a red coat, such as none wore except Creoles from the French settlements, or gentlemen from the Carolinas.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
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At the last election, the Government won easily, knocking the Opposition into a cocked hat.
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My mother is such a good cook; she knocks anyone else into a cocked hat.
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Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short – legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.
Bleak House
