For about three weeks there had been seen walking in the streets about ten young East Indians, small, lithe, with dark skins, dressed all in gray and wearing on their heads caps such as English grooms wear.
You know they were so frightened that they saluted all the red caps of the turnkeys, and one day refused to take a hand at piquet because a pack of cards with kings and queens was offered them.
No one seemed to have any spare time, every one was in a hurry; all the hats bore their cockades, and the women cried, "Are not red caps becoming to us?
At the same time hats were thrown up and sabres whirled joyously, while from all sides brown woollen caps hoisted on long poles were waving in the air.
Hard Punchers" are caps worn by London roughs and formerly by men in training.
Capper-Clawing~, female encounter, where caps are torn and nails freely used.
All of these are of igneous origin, some being merecaps of basalt resting upon a foundation of sandstone, while others are the stumps of isolated volcanoes.
The two polar caps are not symmetrical as regards the latitudes which they occupy.
The two polar zones are caps covering both polar regions, and bounded on the side towards the equator by the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
Muslin caps and light pique hats provide enough shade, if the baby-carriage has a parasol.
With their gloomy faces and ghastly white caps and white dresses, they looked more like criminals waiting for execution, than guests at a feast.
The masters were there in caps and gowns, and the Sixth, in solemn array, occupied the benches on the dais.
Scarcely any one noticed the two dismayed little Templetonians, as they squeezed out of the gate, with their caps drawn over their eyes, and their heads diligently turned away from the coach of the Eleven.
The study was empty; and even the caps were gone from the pegs.
They made a picturesque group as they stood stamping the mud and snow from their long-legged logging shoes and brushing the great, soft flakes from caps and homespun wamuses.
Notwithstanding the strong temptation to assume that the whiteness of the Martian polar caps is due to fallen snow, such a solution is, however, by no means so simple as it looks.
Professor Barnard, on the other hand, does not corroborate this, though he claims to have discovered bright polar caps on both Ganymede and Callisto.
On a globe, too, there is plainly no reason why the liquid which results from the melting of the polar caps should trend at all in the direction of the equator.
Yes, if it please you," answered the fellow; "but pray let him shew the five caps he has made me.
There was also a middling moment, so to speak, when both caps of shining white seemed to flare skywards like shimmering flames.
She was very industrious and helped her mother in her laundry work, ironing out the finer and more delicate fabrics and washing the lace caps and the jabots of the wealthier Seldwyla ladies, thus earning quite a bit.
Now they had almost reached the old town gate, the two towers of which were lined with the curious who were waving their caps and hats.
With their caps between their knees, the candle propped up in a bayonet, and a hard-tack box for a table, they whispered back and forth and shuffled and dealt until some of those caps were filled with postal currency.
By far the greater number appeared before the camera rough and unpolished; sometimes in blouses, with pipes in their mouths, and caps tilted on their heads.
But the failure of the expedition brought little comfort to those unfortunates who were obliged to stand out two hours in the cold rain, which poured from their caps down their back bones and into the shoes.
I put caps in every pocket about my person, for fear of the lining.
Shrouds and coffins must be made as well as caps and cloaks.
The Wide-awakes, a Republican organization, were out in force marching as soldiers, dressed in glazed caps and capes, carrying torches.
Caps and Helmets In the first lot of trenches our men put their caps and helmets on the top, to give the enemy the impression we were still there.
On examining him we found twelve bombs, all of which had safety caps and pins attached, luckily for us.
Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps at their money: these debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.
See if you can't dig up one of those capsfor her, Ben.
I will, if you'll throw in one of them caps fer my brother.
I seen an ad," said the thrifty Flamingus, "that the Beehive would give away baseball caps to-day.
I called," explained Amarilly with grandiose manner, "to git one of them caps you advertised to give away.
The absolute whiteness of the polar snow-caps was alleged in support of the same inference by Sir William Huggins in 1867.
I fancied he would take off before I could finish, and I made all the haste in my power--so much so that I dropped the box of caps at my feet.
My caps were all within that box, and my gun, loaded though it was, was as useless in my hands as a bar of iron.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
