1 He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
2 No more monkey-jackets and tarpaulins for me; I must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a beaver; so.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks. 3 These He said should be slaves; and He ordered them to work forever, like the beaver.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 4 Give me twenty rifles, and I will turn to the right, along the stream; and, passing by the huts of the beaver, will join the Sagamore and the colonel.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 5 In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
6 I had to change the collar at any sacrifice, and to have a beaver one like an officer's.
7 For this purpose I began visiting the Gostiny Dvor and after several attempts I pitched upon a piece of cheap German beaver.
8 The handsome beaver replaced the mean-looking raccoon, and I began by degrees to get to work.
9 Hardly had he passed an angle of the wood before a stout gentleman in a beaver cap came riding toward him on a handsome raven-black horse, accompanied by two hunt servants.
10 Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.
11 The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the black hat and on the white cravat, brilliant against the beaver of the coat.
12 She wore a beaver hat with blue feathers, a surtout of gray-pearl velvet, fastened with diamond clasps, and a petticoat of blue satin, embroidered with silver.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON 13 He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
14 The route taken by Duncan and David lay directly across the clearing of the beavers, and along the margin of their pond.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 15 Though these German beavers soon grow shabby and look wretched, yet at first they look exceedingly well, and I only needed it for the occasion.