But before we accept the image of the tricornered Tea Partier or, worse, Rick Santorum as the standard bearer of the GOP, it's nice to be reminded of that tucked-shirt wearing, neck pillow-loving silent majority. ❋ D.R. Burgess (2012)
We haven't had a real default since powdered wigs and tricornered hats were in vogue. ❋ David Weidner (2011)
His disregard for wealth and personal prestige, his affection for the traditions of the Puritans, whom he saw as opponents of tyranny in both church and state, even the tricornered hat he continued to wear marked Adams as a man of another era. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)
An oddly creased tricornered hat still rested on the motionless head, though it was tilted over the hidden eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The tea partiers 'tricornered hat is supposed to be a symbol of patriotism and constitutional first principles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Despite Mudge's insistence, however, he categorically refused to don the orange tricornered cap. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I did a quick head count of the folks clustered around the coffin and the balance of the tricornered hat, flag waving, proponents of limited government, arrayed up the steps to the front doors of town hall. ❋ Unknown (2009)
All the way back to George Washington and the guys in tricornered hats. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While she lingered indecisively, the wind came in another hard gust, snapping the bright tricornered plastic pennants strung overhead and overturning a rack of oil tins. ❋ Maritta Wolff (2009)
Congratulations and a tip of my tricornered hat to the Hesse-Seewalders in their impresive victory. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2008)
According to city ordinance, the election now goes to the tie-breaker procedure: the winner's name will be drawn from a hat presumably not a tricornered hat, but one never knows. ❋ Sinfonian (2007)
The man looking down at her had thin, scraggly brown hair that fell to his shoulders, and on top of his head was an old tricornered hat with a dyed pink feather that hung down limply, as it was broken in at least two places. ❋ Johanna Lindsey (2006)
Cheney should be pilloried in the public square while wearing a tricornered hat. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I had come to the museum in search of a certain item—a tricornered hat originally belonging to the great Dr. Franklin, which I had promised to loan to the governor, who wished to put it on temporary display at his mansion. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)
Shading their heads were peculiar tricornered hats that mimicked the design of the time gates. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1999)
Yet those tiny daily changes have brought us from a time when what you'd have seen down there instead of traffic lights and hooting fire engines, was farmland, treetops, and streams; cows at pasture, men in tricornered hats; and British sailing ships anchored in a clear-running, tree-shaded East River. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)
