Sentence examples for beaver top from inspiring English sources
And I had started the day by looking at Prince Albert's enormous beaver top hat.
His research was so intimate that he even measured the black beaver top hat Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater.
They are in cases and on mannequins fitted with the appropriate accouterments, including powdered wigs, beaver top hats, knee breeches, buckle shoes and neck-choking cravats.
Although Europe — where an appetite for beaver top hats helped push North American settlers west two centuries ago — remains a fashion leader, it is Russia and China that are driving demand.
Quirky souvenirs, like a duck decoy ($28) or antique beaver top hat ($95), abound at Uncommon Objects (1512 South Congress Avenue; 512-442-4000; www.comommonobjects.com), a sprawling emporium with a flea market aesthetic.
This from a lad wearing lawn-mowing apparel with a gray beaver-felt top hat.
Other items offer a reminder of what Thurston must have looked like onstage, among them his tailcoat with fancy buttons, his white tuxedo shirt, his octagonal gold and silver cufflinks and his beaver-skin top hat, still slightly shiny.
Turing's name summons up in most people a single image: that of the tweed-jacketed wartime codebreaker, beavering in top-secret isolation at Bletchley Park.
"If we can provide evidence that beavers in the top of the catchments reduce floods downstream, that's gold dust really," Elliott said.
An expanded collection of Kennedy treasures and trivia was unveiled this month on exhibit and online to coincide with the 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration; it includes the fabric of his top hat (beaver fur) down to his shoe size (10C).
During the 1973-74 season, the Beavers upset a top-ranked Bruins team in Corvallis and broke UCLA's 50-game Pac-8 winning streak.
