Surrounding a big, covered wagon, of the prairie-schooner type, were from ten to a dozen wild-looking Mexicans, their straggling elf-locks crowned by high-peaked sombreros, and their serapes streaming out wildly about them, whipped into loose folds by the pace at which they rode.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
But the strong breath of the sea was beginning to be felt; in a few moments more they were facing it with lowered sombreros and flying serapes, and the vast, glittering, illimitable Pacific opened out beneath them.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
The sermon he had delivered just before the overthrow of serapes, to soothe the excited multitude and guide them in the right way, had been regarded by the Bishop of the zealot priests, who happened to be present, as blasphemous and as pandering to the infidels; Theophilus, therefore, had charged his nephew Cyril-his successor in the see-to verify the facts and enquire into the deacon's orthodoxy.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers