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A short skirt, made like the lower part of a riding coat, reached the knees, and from knees to entrancing little bespurred champagne boots tight riding trousers showed.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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MSS. of some _studiosus emeritus_ -- a sort of life in Heidelberg, entering into great detail concerning university doings, and with illustrations of a very sportive description; wherein mustached and bespurred cavaliers are slashing at each other with broad swords, or cantering over the country mounted upon gallant steeds, and looking something between Dick Turpins and field-marshals in muftee.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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He wore a yokel's smock much too big for him, and yet not big enough to hide his bespurred riding-boots.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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There were "not a few young sparks and bespurred and beruffled bucks come thither from as far as Hull" who had brought with them certain overdressed women.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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A short skirt, made like the lower part of a riding coat, reached the knees, and from knees to entrancing little bespurred champagne boots tight riding trousers showed.
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A short skirt, made like the lower part of a riding coat, reached the knees, and from knees to entrancing little bespurred champagne boots tight riding trousers showed.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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The men of the Cottage Hotel continued big, brown, bespurred and behatted, yet it might have been observed that the tenantry of the
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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