A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.
People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians. . . . Were it not for the churches,. . . Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.
