“Gown and galligaskins!” responded the Refectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
"Call you," said Dudley, "the accidental shaping of a ruff, or the manner of disposing of the folds of my galligaskins, an imitation of a prelatical model?". From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with, one hand, as. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829] Reference
"Gown and galligaskins!" responded the Refectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
QUOTATION: My galligaskins, that have long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
Niccola's galligaskins by the breech, tugged at them amain. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
Saying which he nodded, gave a hitch to his wide galligaskins and rolled away. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference
This 'ere old friend o' mine don't unnerstand ye wi 'yer fustian an' yer galligaskins. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
"A green gown and a pair of leathern galligaskins every Pentecost," said the Kitchener. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
I shall produce only one passage out of this poet, which is the misfortune of his galligaskins. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
O you Revolutionists! who would have no state, no ceremonial, and but one order of galligaskins!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
He goes on to relate how he is besieged by duns, and what a chasm there is in his "galligaskins.". From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
Kentish villages, where rude shock-headed peasants with smocks and galligaskins stared with bold, greedy eyes at the travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
The jerkin, the doublet, the galligaskins were put on to serve the practical purposes of life, not to attract the policeman or the spinster. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
Supposing we find hose-in-hose, and supposing we find green cowslips, and supposing we find curled cowslips or galligaskins, and supposing –. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
In his right hand he held forth the ominous dispatches, and with his left he grasped firmly the waistband of his galligaskins, which had unfortunately given way in the exertion of descending from his horse. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. From Wordnik.com. [FJ's Blog] Reference
“A green gown and a pair of leathern galligaskins every. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
Supposing we find hose-in-hose, and supposing we find green cowslips, and supposing we find curled cowslips or galligaskins, and supposing -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
My galligaskins, that have long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
To-morrow I shall go and look for galligaskins. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference
15My galligaskins, that have long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
8265My galligaskins, that have long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
Donned galligaskins, antigropeloes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Donn'd galligaskins, antigropeloes. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Leaves] Reference
"His galligaskins, that had long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
"My galligaskins, which have long withstood. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
To-morrow I shall go and look for galligaskins. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
"Cow's-grass, doublet, and galligaskins," responded the Refectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
“Cow’s-grass, doublet, and galligaskins,” responded the Refectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
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