breeches

• “And bagged in breeches, clinging round his side, —”

  The Age Reviewed

• “My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'.”

  If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side....

• “Walking over it immediately conjures up images of Greg Wise in breeches; enough to keep me smiling for the rest of the day.”

  The concrete jungle's really going crazy

• “He was dressed for riding, with buff coat and buckskin breeches, and shining top boots.”

  The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century

• “Khaki was the rule, the women mostly in breeches and long coats, with high-laced shoes reaching to the knee and soft felt hats, the men in riding-clothes, with sombreros and brilliant bandannas knotted about their throats.”

  Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

• “He was hatless; his Crimean shirt was torn into ribbons; his moleskin breeches were covered with blood and dirt; the strap belt, with its sheath-knife and various pouches, was gone, and this, judging from the state of his legs and feet, had been forcibly removed.”

  Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

• “The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet.”

  In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters

• “She had walked up with a Mr. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, brisk-looking farmer, in breeches and top-boots, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to roost among the woods.”

  Roughing It in the Bush

• “There are things we do and know perfectly well in Vanity Fair, though we never speak of them: as the Ahrimanians worship the devil, but don't mention him: and a polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly refined English or American female will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her chaste hearing.”

  Vanity Fair

• “a polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly refined English or American female will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her chaste hearing.”

  Vanity Fair

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