Petticoats

Examples

• It's a question of petticoats with the women--which is long. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Look what mischief the petticoats of some of you have done already. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was made a joke of; his gallantry, his chivalry, were the subject of a jest for a petticoat--for two petticoats: Miss Helstone too was smiling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The petticoats did it, Sergeant--the petticoats did it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For sensibility and genius, with all their tenderness and temerity, I felt somehow that Madame would be the right sort of Minos in petticoats. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She wore short petticoats, and a small French bonnet stuck at the top of her head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I can get an old woman in petticoats to prose for me for half the money! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In the long run, I found she was something else in petticoats too. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That paint had been EIGHT HOURS DRY, Mr. Superintendent, when you supposed that the women-servants' petticoats smeared it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I care nothin' for the petticoats. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• No full-bottomed wig, no red petticoats, no fur, no javelin-men, no white wands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The clock had struck eight, and I was just going out to chain up the dogs again, when I heard a sudden whisking of petticoats on the stairs behind me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Typed by Kate