stockings

• The six men being unable to hit the hog, grew angry, and one of them, unmindful of the fact that his small clothes had burst open at the knee, and his stockings were around his shoes, terribly batters another combatant, who strives in vain to dodge him. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• I never thought about the tide, and there seemed to be plenty of water around, and suddenly I found the water had all turned into mud Cricket, your stockings are all coming down," interrupted Eunice Yes, I know," said Cricket, coolly, stopping long enough to produce her side-elastics from her pocket. —  Cricket at the Seashore
• The boys teased him because his stockings were always down over his shoes, and for his devotion to the girls, one named Giacominetta especially. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• Her shoes was part white and part black, the way they wore 'em then, and her stockings was the color of her dress; and her dress was right in line, like the things you saw along in the store windows It was winter when we hit Chicago and she wore furs--dark ones--and her muff was shore stylish. —  The Man Next Door
• As it was, there was no other course than to wade over, and although we were stiff and cold, we had to take off our stockings, and put our bare feet in the shoes to protect them from treading on anything sharp, and our stockings were the dryest articles we had. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

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