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riding-breeches

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  • For him the Canadian cartoonist has produced a singularly colorless type — a gentlemanly but resolute personage in riding-breeches, leggings, and scout hat.

    In Search of the Canadian Dream 2004

  • For him the Canadian cartoonist has produced a singularly colorless type — a gentlemanly but resolute personage in riding-breeches, leggings, and scout hat.

    In Search of the Canadian Dream 2004

  • Somehow he had procured field-boots and an old pair of riding-breeches.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • They ran over my clothes, my brand-new riding-breeches, my splashed boots, my wide-brimmed hat.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • He had a cigarette in his mouth, and his hands in the pockets of his riding-breeches.

    Prester John 2005

  • Those beautiful young swells in riding-breeches and tight gray jackets approached an Italian type of cavalry officer; they did not look very vigorous, and the common soldiers we saw marching through the streets, largely followed by the populace, were not of formidable stature or figure, though neat and agreeable enough to the eye.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • He was wearing grey riding-breeches, a jacket and a Circassian cap.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • It looked at his riding-breeches, boots, and light leather armor with disdain, standing directly in his path so that he could not avoid a confrontation with it.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • For him the Canadian cartoonist has produced a singularly colorless type — a gentlemanly but resolute personage in riding-breeches, leggings, and scout hat.

    The Canadian Type 1969

  • The man holding the signalling light was wearing a white crash-helmet, leather riding-breeches and a brown leather jacket with huge stiff red epaulettes.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

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