And bagged in breeches, clinging round his side, —. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
He was dressed for riding, with buff coat and buckskin breeches, and shining top boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century] Reference
Walking over it immediately conjures up images of Greg Wise in breeches; enough to keep me smiling for the rest of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The concrete jungle's really going crazy] Reference
They were put inside an object called a breeches buoy. From Wordnik.com. [Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast] Reference
In England we should have called his breeches buckskin. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
The breeches were a more practical garment than a tavern dancer's silks, but somehow they came off as swiftly. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Relentless]
Like the men above, he was barefoot and bare-chested, but his breeches were a dark blue silk, and his long sash a bright red. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Your breeches are a little too tight -- you have a much more powerful leg than is common -- but that, however, is easily altered. From Wordnik.com. [With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War] Reference
He had no breeches which is why he was slow to run. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
He still wore Rebecca's robe, and she guessed he wore some kind of breeches beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
From the bag he called his breeches. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919] Reference
First pair of breeches -- I think I recognize you. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis. From Wordnik.com. [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference
His breeches were of deer-skin with the hair outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
"It depends if my breeches are linen or wool," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Daughter Of The Revolution ?] Reference
You will find them again, these breeches, when you are promoted to be. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They seem too stuffy, too much the proper gentlemen in breeches and powdered wigs. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia] Reference
Behold a happy deputy, a deputy who has just -- put on his first pair of breeches. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Costumes are the tailcoats and breeches we know from Jacques-Louis David's pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged] Reference
Ah! what fine breeches; not very long in the legs, but, then, what room everywhere else!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Lace frills of costly Point edged the knee-breeches, lace cravats were worn and deep falling cuffs. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
"Oh, I see," said Bert, "the line will stretch then, and the breeches buoy will go out on a pulley.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
She pulled from the girl's hair a miniature portrait of a boy in buckled knee breeches and hanging sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Origin] Reference
Besides, I loved the costumes (it was an illustrated Shakespeare), the velvet breeches, white cockade. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
Shaking a shrimp from my sodden breeches, I made my way to the high street, determined to find a police station. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
Brother Ruffino clad only in breeches, especially considering he had once been one of the noblest men in Assisi. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
But the first symptom of virility, the first serious step taken in life, is marked by the assumption of breeches. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was usually a space of several inches between the breeches and the shoes, exposing a tanned and bluish skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
My spirits sank to my oversized boots — another voice spoke up, I had not seen Lestrade, warming his breeches by the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
The sea was so wild it was impossible to send out the life-savers 'boats, so the guards were making ready the breeches buoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
And at Huntsman, established in the 19th century to make breeches for sportsmen, women can choose from 7,000 types of fabric. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
"See, there goes the buoy," and then the queer-looking life-preserver made of cork, and shaped like breeches, swung out over the waves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
Wide breeches reached to the knee, and the yellow-and-red striped stuff of which they were made was ornamented below with blue ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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