riding-skirt

• “She leaned forward under the flying steel, which cut through her riding-skirt, through the edge of the saddle, through the saddle cloth, and even slightly into the horse itself.”

  Chapter 22

• “The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “I wish she would lift up that lang veil, or put off that riding-skirt, Doctor.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “Nixon, out of caution perhaps to prevent escape, had muffled the extreme folds of the riding-skirt with which he was accoutred, around his ankles and under his feet, and there secured it with large corking-pins.”

  Redgauntlet

• “He was obliged, however, to retain his riding-skirt, and to reassume his mask.”

  Redgauntlet

• “He remonstrated somewhat more vehemently against the long riding-skirt, which converted his person from the waist into the female guise, but was obliged to concede this point also.”

  Redgauntlet

• “And so she said nothing about the ear-ring, or the run that was to come off that week, or the riding-skirt, or a host of little things, including her promise to visit Bempton Lane.”

  Mary Anerley

• “She stood before him one afternoon in her black riding-habit and high silk riding-hat perched jauntily on her red-gold hair; and striking her riding-skirt with her short whip, pondering doubtfully as she listened.”

  The Financier

• “After a word with the woman who opened, she threw her riding-skirt over one arm, put the other through the bridle, and was now making straight for them.”

  Australia Felix

• “Gertrude doffed her hat, and tucked up her riding-skirt, and sat down to”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.

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