cap and bells

If these be fools, then pass out the caps and bells to the rest of us.

He was just a sad, nice little man in a cap and bells who everyone ignored."

Do you not see how my cap and bells would serve you?"

The church has a small tower topped by a cast iron frame cap and bells.

But George Carter wasn't wearing his cap and bells this morning.

Oh yes, Lemon had quite a bit up top, he should imagine, and all concealed under the cap and bells.

The Cap and Bells: a comedy in three acts (1913)

I must sometimes lay the cap and bells aside and recognize that I am of the human race.

"A cap and bells.

Foolscap was named after the fool's caps and bells watermark commonly used from the fifteenth century onwards on paper of these dimensions.

He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.

The others smiled and enjoyed him, but with that condescension which the courtier is likely to accord to motley and the cap and bells.

At Williams Katz was a member of Cap and Bells, the oldest continuously running student-run college theater group in the country.

Carnival in Mainz has its roots in the criticism of social and political injustices under the shelter of cap and bells.

Mr. Hibbard made his move after Michael McGrath turned in his cap and bells.

Their filly Cap and Bells II won the 1901 Epsom Oaks.

"He hangs attributes on his characters as if they were caps and bells, and he has these unwitting jesters say and do thigh-slapping things."

I shall need someone to take my cap and bells back to the Fools' Guild in Ankh-Morpork now I'm leaving.

He saw a fading image of his old self, his motley of red and yellow satin, his red cap and bells.

To the government's relief, Derek put on his cap and bells, played the boastful court jester and created a sideshow distraction while all the king's men escaped.

"I met a fool i' the woods, a motley fool," he cried, and you believed the forest depths were chattering with caps and bells.

The poet John Keats saw it there and included it in his satirical verse, "The Cap and Bells".

Philippe Laudenbach in Cap and Bells (Le Bonnet du fou)

Amid earth's motley, Gaia's cap and bells, This too material, too unreal life, Sing, sing the crown of tender miracles, The pure true wife!