Yesterday was a blazer, but though it was hot enough on the docks to roast a coon, when the Big Willie steamed in, that beautiful young visitor to our shores, Lady Betty Bulkeley, managed to look like the Duke's daughter and Duke's sister she is, and so far as a mere man could tell, without the help of patent hair curlers, or other artificial aids to personal pulchritude.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson
Hunting is mighty hard work on a hot day, and this is going to be a blazer, answered Chris, pulling his big straw hat lower over his eyes.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
I ought to have put on a single wreath of artificial flowers and some sort of a blazer for this expedition.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009