"Fedora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day he invited the whole family and Manuel to a bull fight. Justa dressed up very fetchingly in her best to make a worthy companion to her lover. Senor Custodio took out his finest apparel: the new fedora, new although it was more than thirty years old; his coat of doubled cloth, excellent for the boreal regions, and a cane with a horn handle, bought in El Rastro; the ragdealer's wife wore a flowered kerchief, while Manuel made a most ridiculous appearance in a hat that was taken from the ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... not," he said. He took his former seat, but now laid on the heap of rejected MSS., not the silken cylinder he had so daintily poised there before, but a gray fedora that fell carelessly over in lazy curves and hollows. "I wish to modify by adding the effect of further observation and adjusting it to my first conclusions. Since I saw you I have been back to Boston; in fact, I have just come ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... Ewart, | |thirty-one years old, sat disconsolately in a cell, | |his modish green overcoat somewhat wrinkled, the | |careful creases in his gray trousers a bit less | |apparent, and his up-to-the-minute gray fedora a | |trifle out of shape and dusty. Nevertheless, he | |still retained the mien of dignity with which he met| |his arrest in the grocery store of Jacob Bosch at | |No. 336 St. Nicholas Avenue. | | | |Of course, you understand, it was really Mrs. | |Ewart's ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer |
