white-gaitered love

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  • A line of blue-coated, white-gaitered soldiers on each side kept the space clear down the centre.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • He preferred to navigate the Zoo on his own white-gaitered legs.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • The stocky man shifted his weight from one white-gaitered foot to the other and gave the cigar another twist.

    Steadfast Falters 1916

  • He looked rather odd there in his zouave jacket, red trousers, white-gaitered legs hanging.

    Ailsa Paige 1899

  • The prompt Paris morning struck its cheerful notes -- in a soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • Then they fled to the side of the old man-servant as fast as their white-gaitered legs would carry them.

    A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier.

    The Ambassadors 2003

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