Stocking Cap

GRANT, GRAY and ravaged under his stocking-cap, toiled at his memoirs in New York, aware that he was in a race with death to finish his book. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Ross had a woollen muffler wrapped round his head, while his companion had been given the loan of a red stocking-cap, but they still retained the weird garb in which they had made their journey down the ship canal. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)

She stared in stupefaction at the stocking-cap and at the long flannel pyjama legs that depended from the body of the infant, around whose neck the waist was tightly drawn. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

A little, sunny fellow in velvet, and a bigger lad in a stocking-cap; the little one talking, always talking; the big one listening, always listening; the little one proposing, the big one agreeing; the little one leading, the big one following; the little one looking up and yet ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

But she wore a sailor's blue stocking-cap, and it brightened existence when, for economy's sake and for the sake of general tidiness, she was allowed to wear a white woollen jersey. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

In her white jersey and stocking-cap she looked every inch ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

One of the hairdressers, her own hair a flaming pink, stood with scissors and comb in hand skillfully shaping a new stocking-cap wig for a client.

Now the narrator is Rorschach, a grotty right-wing nihilist in a stocking-cap mask; now it's Dr. Manhattan, an iridescent blue giant in a cosmic funk who sits on Mars and sifts through lost time.

The dark figure he’d watched for outside walked across the middle of the living room toward Don, wearing all black, a skull’s face covering the stocking-cap front. ❋ SHERRILYN KENYON (2010)