My nether garments are handed to the khan; in the pocket of my pantaloons is a purse containing a few kerans. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Josiah and Sam Liggins were well dressed, only their pantaloons were a trifle too short and their shoes needed blacking. From Wordnik.com. [Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School] Reference
Now she knows all pants as "pantaloons" ... but pronounces it "pantapoon.". From Wordnik.com. [freakophilosophy] Reference
From the first week of her life, I always referred to her pants as "pantaloons" because I was (and am) reading the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring series by Patrick O'Brian. From Wordnik.com. [freakophilosophy] Reference
I got up, pulled on my pantaloons and rushed down stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
In those vile pantaloons, which he fancied look'd knowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball] Reference
'I think I shall have to get some one to reseat my pantaloons.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His pantaloons were short, his figure was paunchy, authoritative and German. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
A gentleman carries his watch in his pantaloons with a plain black ribbon attached. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
I saw the Captain trying to borrow a pair of pantaloons, he running around in his drawers. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
And coat and pantaloons were tenderly dusted, and carefully restored to their sacred rest. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The men were dressed in white coats and white pantaloons or black coats and white pantaloons. From Wordnik.com. [An Epoch in History] Reference
He even detested the word minister prefixed to one's name, and eschewed breeches, wearing pantaloons. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The thought nerved them, and pushing up their knapsacks, and hitching up their pantaloons, they trudged with. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
He wears an antiquated pair of buckskin pantaloons, and has a cabin-home on the mountain, twelve miles away. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He took off his shoes and stockings, rolled up his pantaloons, and ran into the water over the sandy bottom to the rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, October 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 4] Reference
When they returned, in place of the gaudy, tight trousers, they were wearing loose, black pantaloons, the garb of battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
His wife washes and mends the stranger's shirts, and lends him a needle and thread to sew a button on his only pair of pantaloons. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Avoid what is called the "ruffianly style of dress" or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbottoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I am badly off for clothing; my coat is out at the elbows, and my pantaloons are in a revolutionary condition, the seat having seceded. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He had on his boots outside his pantaloons, gauntlets on his hands, had on his major-general's uniform, and wore a sword-belt, but no sword. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
At home there was always a clean shirt and a pair of cottonade pantaloons waiting for him, and nothing but a "Well, Jim!" by way of reproof. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
The Maestro suggested that the precious pantaloons which, by the way, had been mysteriously embellished by a red stripe down the right leg and. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Isidro took everything -- the terrific scrubbing, the exaggerated dosing, the ruinous treatment of his pantaloons -- with wonder-eyed serenity. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
In the evening, he appeared in a blue coat and white waistcoat, black pantaloons closely fitting, and buttoning tight to the ankle, striped silk stockings, and opera hat. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
He then continued to disrobe without ceremony, took off his gray pantaloons, shirt and flannel undershirt, and went into the bath, where his servant washed and rubbed him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
His pantaloons were decorated with a military red stripe, of which he was extremely vain; but being much too short, the whole length of his boots was usually visible below them. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
He is half distracted about his pantaloons, which are much to short, and are constantly hitching up; or his frayed jacket and crumpled linen harrow his soul, and quite unman him. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Then I caught a rapid view of the thing as it burst through a shaft of moonlight piercing the glade, and it showed as a man, a grotesque figure of a man in loose white pantaloons. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
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