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That waited on the lisping girl and petticoated boy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature] Reference

'Here they come, though,' as half a dozen petticoated figures issued from the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference

Should the bishop now be re-petticoated, his thraldom would be complete and forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barchester Towers] Reference

Lona: Chiefly to annoy the petticoated and trousered prudes that one met at every turn in the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pillars of Society] Reference

The travellers are interrogating the host of an inn close to the liberties where the princess holds her petticoated sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

It is not to be wondered at that both Cretans and Turks were a little alarmed at the sight of these brawny, petticoated soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

The little girls wore bright pastels, even in winter, lacy little socks, and white nylon sweaters over their petticoated party dresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enemies of the People] Reference

Mademoiselle St. Sillery, certainly the most modest women in France, only smiled at my surprise, when these short petticoated women passed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

It was, according to my petticoated Herodotus, a truly terrible fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Child] Reference

Suddenly a petticoated figure came flying down the sidewalk from the store.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest] Reference

In fact, in this petticoated wretch you see a type of the nation of Cingalese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference

I have not heard or seen or thought of those petticoated creatures since my dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

The tightrope walker is back, with her floofy petticoated skirts and miniskirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion World of SL] Reference

He saw the two petticoated figures start running up the beach towards him, Stonor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]] Reference

A big black mongrel appeared worrying at one of two petticoated urchins on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

Now there appeared a petticoated one stationary against the rails, with her face lifted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

She grinds her hips and hoists her petticoated skirt, almost directly in front of Bryant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

She stretched out her hands -- a small, petticoated Balboa -- to the world she had discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

So the complimenting monsieur came, and there kissed the petticoated lads with great formality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

November saw Fifth Avenue a-glitter with uniforms, and one third of them seemed to be petticoated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Portions] Reference

Yet if the petticoated Vandal in that ermine coat were compelled to behold from her box-chair in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Mother] Reference

By October the window-gazers, watching the parades from the Raynor windows, were mostly petticoated and exclamatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Portions] Reference

And as for mixing the breeched and petticoated in those young days -- 'I can't enter into it,' my lord considerately said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

Largely petticoated was it, for o'daytimes man must be busy at his office that woman may have this privilege of going shopping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewel Weed] Reference

And this petticoated divan suddenly closing round the painter, one pulled him by the sleeve, another by the jacket, and a third, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

It is worth some study, the sensation of that approaching step, that emerging shadow, -- bifurcated or petticoated, two feet or four?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

He caught a fleeting impression of the house as some sick, many-petticoated creature crouching frightened in the unrelenting darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police at the Funeral]

There was a great deal of talk among the neighbors, particularly the petticoated ones, about what they called the witchcraft of Maule's eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

I'm no petticoated Paul Peel, but I can see enough beauty in the curves of that velvety body to lift it up and bite it on its promptly protesting little flank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Mother] Reference

I might have been Sir Philip before this, and had his Majesty's commission in my pocket, but for this petticoated skeleton which warns off pleasure and promotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Valley] Reference

About fifty men stood packed there in a steam of breath around the guns -- the most of them Canadians and British militiamen, with a sprinkling of petticoated sailors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

When despatch-writing, invisible Philips, stargazing Rudolphs, and petticoated Henrys, sat upon the thrones of Europe, it was wholesome to show the world that there was.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

"My squills make a brave show this morning, and the little petticoated.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference