Sentence examples for hat and cloak from inspiring English sources

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Ms. Gillot, in velvet gown, throws off a black hat and cloak, grows increasingly tense in her gestures, acknowledges an imaginary ovation and retreats into a doorlike square.

With its top hat and cloak, the Babadook looks like the magician's outfit that Samuel likes to wear – he shows great talent for magic, and his fanatical need to impress and unnerve his mother with his tricks is becoming disturbing: already he is in constant trouble at school.

Although the book does not call for it, I feel the need to purchase a wizard's hat and cloak before attempting to do so.

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This piece of furniture, with its blotched looking glass, its hat hooks and cloak holders, was the ceremonial guard of the house.

If you're going to fail to disappear, you may as well do so through methods less gross and felonious: by reciting the names of demons in Latin, for instance, or carrying around a slip of paper with twelve numbers arranged in a mystical pattern, or trying on a lot of hats and cloaks and rings.

The minimalism is echoed by a stage set comprised of a drum kit and three keyboards – played by Gore, Andy Fletcher and a session musician – and a screen displaying CGI graphics and footage of the band in undertakers' top hats and cloaks; it amounts to one of the most striking of 2013's big rock shows.

Norman was a clever man, and a world-class flake — a bohemian who cultivated a voluptuous Vandyke beard, preferred the company of artists and designers to that of his colleagues, and usually dressed in a floppy hat and a cloak.

The most famous ghost is the "Man in Grey", who appears dressed as a nobleman of the late 18th century: powdered hair beneath a tricorne hat, a dress jacket and cloak or cape, riding boots and a sword.

His name is simply V, a man with a vendetta against tyranny and some personal grudges; he affects the cloak, hat and grinning mask of Guy Fawkes, the most famous conspirator in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

I sat in my four-berth compartment with a soldier in a dark uniform, a student of about twenty-two, and an old man with a long chin beard, wearing traditional Turkmen dress — a cylindrical black lambskin hat and a long brown cloak over a smock, one of those national costumes which seem eternal and comfortable everywhere, in all seasons.

He wore a black cloak, top hat and eye-mask.

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