Breeches

Examples

• Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Set a bulldog on hind legs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I drew off my shoes, stockings, and breeches. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• At the age of six he had asked a Scripture riddle: Who was the first man known to wear breeches? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Lord Frederick wants your opinion on his new leather breeches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I stood up, took off the breeches and pulled off the knee-brace. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Began taking off his breeches, and then a looker-on gave him a trifle for his pluck. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It dropped in the dirt, and he picked it up and polished it on his breeches, and laid it before us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The ring, Adele, is in my breeches-pocket, under the disguise of a sovereign: but I mean soon to change it to a ring again. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Do not ride in ladies' gloves; particularly with leather breeches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not _the_ breeches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was a pedantic, disagreeable, affected fool, who visited his patients in leather breeches and topped boots. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Set a bulldog on hind legs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I drew off my shoes, stockings, and breeches. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• At the age of six he had asked a Scripture riddle: Who was the first man known to wear breeches? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Lord Frederick wants your opinion on his new leather breeches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I stood up, took off the breeches and pulled off the knee-brace. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Began taking off his breeches, and then a looker-on gave him a trifle for his pluck. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It dropped in the dirt, and he picked it up and polished it on his breeches, and laid it before us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The ring, Adele, is in my breeches-pocket, under the disguise of a sovereign: but I mean soon to change it to a ring again. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Do not ride in ladies' gloves; particularly with leather breeches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not _the_ breeches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was a pedantic, disagreeable, affected fool, who visited his patients in leather breeches and topped boots. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Editor: Margie