"The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; "let him take himself off to Prussia with that queue of his.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

The legs were protected by canvas leg covering called gaiters, which buttoned up the side and were form fitting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-06] Reference

I suppose they must have been some garden party -- I distinctly recall the gaiters of a bishop and the coloured linings of more than one doctor's hood among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference

They also wear trail-specific items such as gaiters sock-like items designed to keep pebbles out of shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Marathons Even Tougher] Reference

It was the figure of a man in a leather garb, and wearing a kind of gaiters bound to the legs by strips of hide which went across and across from the instep to far above the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference

"Bless my gaiters, that's so!" exclaimed the odd man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference

Sat a herdsman, arrayed in gaiters and doublet of deerskin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

He wore small red boots and French gaiters of black velvet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Fortunately, the hat and gaiters do something to relieve the gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25] Reference

You can have him as he stands, Sir, with his gaiters and his calves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference

Almost always he wore a black coat, knickerbockers and black gaiters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Bless my gaiters, but I never will trust myself in even an automobile again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

They inspected my gaiters, rummaged in my pockets and leant against my knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Bless my gaiters!" he exclaimed, "I never thought it was as strong as that!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference

"Bless my gaiters, some one is coming!" exclaimed Mr. Damon in a hoarse whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

On one's legs one should wear ordinary brown leather or canvas riding gaiters, only.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference

He is dressed in white, with white kimono, white socks and gaiters, and straw sandals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

Estelle and ran into a big fat man who was wearing stiff leather gaiters and a tam o 'shanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spanish Chest] Reference

Use soldier's long wristers to make gaiters for a baby; just sew an elastic band at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food and Health] Reference

My companion was wearing the Moorish gaiters of the sort his trackers used -- things made of palmetto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

Outside these huge ungainly hair stockings and strangely comfortable boots very thick gaiters are worn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

We didn't lose our leather bandoliers however and we were supplied with the Royal Navy's black leather gaiters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming of Age: 1939-1946] Reference

We are told he wore a peasant's blouse and sabots; on the contrary, he sported a frock-coat and congress gaiters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

It was market day; the men wore brown serge coats, close white breeches and black gaiters, with straw hats bound with black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

These substantial thick boots and leather gaiters from the village shop, with short linsey skirts, formed our walking attire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference

His usual costume consists of a sort of jacket without sleeves, made of sheep skin, of canvas gaiters, and of a drugget cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference

She was as slim and straight as a young poplar, clad in white shirt-waist and khaki Turkish trousers with gaiters laced to the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

The scant costume and tight gaiters of the huntsman's attire, displayed more than ever the height and slimness of the country magistrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The ladies left their gaiters beside our boots, and we all stood in our stockings on the matting, a little in the rear of the kneeling crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

She wound the four braids of her smooth brown hair around her big shell comb and put on her new prunella gaiters with patent-leather heels and tips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

The clattering slippers had been superannuated, and a neat pair of prunella gaiters showed their patent toes from under the hem of her cleanest gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

For the first time I noticed that the Americans were wearing puttees like our men, instead of the canvas gaiters which they sported when first in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He wore a perfectly new hunting costume, cap and gaiters of leather, a havana-colored waistcoat, and had a complete assortment of pockets of all sizes for the cartridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Ain't that sweet!" she exclaimed, and feasted her eyes till, suddenly looking down at Irene's gaiters, she caught a glimpse of a curious field-bug trotting along on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference