Risk and his partner wore over their ordinary clothing long frocks of white flannel, with white "havelocks" over their seal-skin caps, and their gray, homespun pants were covered to the knee by seal-skin ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
General Havelock had provided his troops in India with a cotton cap-cover and neck-protector to shield them from the sun of the tropics, and the manufacture of "havelocks" became the ruling mania of the hour. ❋ Unknown (1889)
It's like saying, Hey community...come put your money in my bank...but we don't have to havelocks, gaurds, security cameras..and the police can't investigate -- cause we chose SHALL NOT hire police & security, since it ain't a must. ❋ Unknown (2006)
French forage pattern, also white linen havelocks, to wear over them, which added greatly to the appearance of the men, being likewise a decided protection from the scorching rays of the June sun. ❋ Charles H. Clarke (N/A)
There was the collection and forwarding to the field, there to be distributed by the chaplains, or some specially appointed agent, of those supplies which the families and friends of the soldiers so earnestly desired to send to them; socks, shirts, handkerchiefs, havelocks, and delicacies in the way of food. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
The price of all materials had greatly advanced, the reserved treasures of every household were exhausted, the early days of havelocks and Sunday industry had gone forever, and the Sanitary Commission was frequently circumvented and calumniated by rival organizations. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
So the young ladies of New York -- including, I hope, her who made my sandwiches for the march hither -- had been making us a flag, as they have made us havelocks, pots of jelly, bundles of lint, flannel dressing-gowns, embroidered slippers for a rainy day in camp, and other necessaries of the soldier's life. ❋ Various (N/A)
When F Company left Richmond for Fredericksburg, each man carried his equipment of gun, etc., a knapsack, canteen, tin cup, and haversack; most of them wore linen gaiters and havelocks, the latter being a head covering, ❋ John H Worsham (1912)
Sad to relate, her bandages, shirts, and havelocks never reached the front, ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
Sad to relate, her bandages, shirts, and havelocks never reached the front, -- those havelocks, to withstand the heat of the tropic sun, which were made in thousands by devoted Union women that first summer of the war, to be ridiculed as nightcaps by the soldiers. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
Some were tearing flannel into lengths for shirts and cutting out havelocks and knapsacks. ❋ Myrta Lockett Avary (1903)
Sometimes she mended the remnants of her silken stockings and the last relics of the fine under linen left her; sometimes she scraped lint or sewed poultice bandages, or fashioned havelocks for regiments southward bound. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Like thousands and thousands of other women in New York she did what she could for the soldiers, contributing from her purse, attending meetings, making havelocks, ten by eight, for the soldiers 'caps, rolling bandages, scraping lint in company with other girls of her acquaintance, visiting barracks and camps and ❋ Unknown (1899)
The sewing societies made nothing but havelocks; the shop windows were full of them, and the poor fellows in the army were so inundated with them that those who had the fewest relatives and sweethearts were much the best off. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Even the women began to feel they must do something and while the recruits were drilling and women were sewing, making comforters, havelocks, ditty bags, bandages, lint and other necessaries required for the wounded, they formed themselves into a ❋ Margaret Blake Alverson (1879)
A red-coated soldier or two passed through the Square; three or four neat little French policemen lounged about in blue uniforms and flaring havelocks; some walnut-faced, blue-eyed old citizens and peasants sat upon the thresholds of the row of old houses, and gazed dreamily through the smoke of their pipes at the slight stir and glitter of shopping about the fine stores of the Rue ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
We came home, and made havelocks and haversacks for the men. ❋ Unknown (1868)
Their havelocks were worn out, and they no longer minded the sun. ❋ John Esten Cooke (1858)
The youths had havelocks to ward off the sun; gaiters to keep out the dust; woollen belts to prevent rheumatism; fanciful shirt bosoms, and pretty needle-cases and tobacco pouches of silk and velvet, decked with beads and gay needle-work, by the dearest fingers in the world! ❋ John Esten Cooke (1858)
