Liberty Cap

All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He wears a red liberty-cap, and a nose which matches it to a shade. ❋ Various (N/A)

He lurks under the liberty-cap of the goddess whose features are stamped in the shining gold, and his laugh is the clink of the jingling pieces. ❋ Various (N/A)

In it, Brother Jonathan must appear with his liberty-cap in one hand and a bag of dollars in the other, bowing humbly before a well-whiskered Mussulman, whose shawl is stuck full of poniards and pistols. ❋ Various (N/A)

On the highest point in the center a fine flagstaff one hundred and twenty feet high was proudly crowned by a liberty-cap. ❋ Murdock, Charles A (1921)

A moment later, the liberty-cap that he had set upon his head was softly removed, and a little crown of silver paper put in its place. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Liberty, with a pole and a liberty-cap, holding a shield with the ❋ Albert Henry Smyth (1885)

Some looked like gentlemen, others like peasants; most of them I should have taken for the lazzaroni of this Southern city, -- men with cloth caps, like the classic liberty-cap, or with wide-awake hats. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

The angel figure is draped, and with, the liberty-cap, which, as a badge both of ancient and modern times, seems to connect the two figures, and in an artistic point of view balances well the cocked hat; there is a similar harmony between the angel's wings and the extremities of the horse. ❋ Margaret Fuller (1830)

“At a dinner at Philadelphia… a roasted pig became the representative of Louis XVI and it being the anniversary of his murder, the pig’s head was severed from his body, then carried round to each of the convives, who, after placing the liberty-cap upon it, pronounced the word tyrant, and gave the poor little grunter’s head a chop with his knife.” ❋ Richard Brookhiser (1999)

[yeah] [lets go] [pick] some Liberty Caps ❋ Marshall Law (2004)

"A [sea of red] [liberty caps] swarmed about the guillotine." -Dickens "[A Tale of Two Cities]" ❋ El_Haggis (2006)