Sardinians and red-pantalooned French spread out in pursuit, and formed a picture so excitingly beautiful that we forgot the suffering and death they left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
A pantalooned emissary might come prancing into your dooryard once every half-decade and give you a hard time, but for the most part you got on with your life relatively undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [The State Despotic] Reference
Patrick Harper, the huge Irishman, was one of the few men who had the brute strength to use one, and now he aimed the stubby, bunched barrels at the pantalooned figure that was limping beneath the arch of the small fortress. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Strange and boisterous school-boys, tight-pantalooned ushers, with menacing canes, were, to my yet unsophisticated mind, anything but agreeable subjects for a reverie, and I felt proportionately doleful; I turned my thoughts on the past, and I was very miserable. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
The pantalooned figure came up, still whistling, and paused for a moment to take breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Madness of May] Reference
And I, whose thirty kronen had passed her by the satin-pantalooned and lace-bosomed doorkeeper, was quite forgot. From Wordnik.com. [Europe After 8:15] Reference
But beyond these there are no men in sight save the pantalooned exception who mows the grass, and with the whirr of his clicking knives sounds the prelude of the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
I was prepared for ersatz mead-and-minstrels play-acting but the minute I was greeted in guttural, 13th-century German by a handsome, pantalooned "squire", I was captivated. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
We can see the old pantalooned philosopher dropping his book or breaking away from his writing table, to join in the general jubilee attendant on the birth of another spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloom of Monticello] Reference
But the contingency never happened, and we saw the Russians fall slowly back in good order, while the dark-plumed Sardinians and red-pantalooned French spread out in pursuit, and formed a picture so excitingly beautiful that we forgot the suffering and death they left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
They saw the pantalooned legs of a man sticking out from behind a willow tree toward the water’s edge. From Wordnik.com. [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference
The night room heaves a sigh, yes Heaves, a Sigh-old-fashioned comical room, oh me I'm hope less, born a joker never change, flirting away through the mirrorframe in something green-striped, pantalooned, and ruffled-meantime though, it is quaint, most rooms today hum you know, have been known also to "breathe," yes even wait in hushed expectancy and that ought to be the rather sinister tradition here, long slender creatures, heavy perfume and capes in rooms assailed by midnight, pierced with spiral stairways, blue-petaled pergolas, an ambience in which no one, however provoked or out of touch, my dear young lady, ever, Heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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