knickerbockered

Yes, that's why children aren't reading anymore - clearly nowhere near enough diamond thieves and cat-burglars are being apprehended in railway tunnels by knickerbockered children.

Freedom to Read lili 2007

Fat, laughing burghers, roystering, knickerbockered Dutchmen and _vrous_ gossiping, smoking, laughing, or drinking, are human documents of the time more graphic than whole volumes of fine writing or mere repetitions of historical fact.

The Automobilist Abroad

So that the obstacle being at will removed, and I holding desperately to his knickerbockered legs, the boy could look out upon the black pavement beneath, or drop a marble from his pocket upon the head of a passer-by.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

"Mary Rose Crocker," repeated the red lips and the knickerbockered legs jumped up and down.

Mary Rose of Mifflin Frances R. Sterrett

When this once dawned upon him, Austin despised the knickerbockered curate more than ever.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

Falling into prayers that I knew by heart, and scarcely heeding what I was saying, I prayed (as my mother had taught me to do when I was a little knickerbockered boy) for the whole chain of governesses who had once taken charge of me.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

Honor and Carter together, -- Switzerland filled to overflowing with knickerbockered, hard muscled, mountain climbing men and women; Honor who should have been climbing with the best of them; who would be, if

Play the Game! Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

His little knickerbockered legs and play-worn shoes protruded grotesquely from beneath a heap of bedding.

Fighting in Flanders 1918

School, prone to saunter home with three or four knickerbockered boys in her train, reading "The Duchess" stealthily, and begging for longer dresses.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Son just as the child was about to be kissed by a knickerbockered admirer who failed to measure up to Aunt Sharley's jealous requirements touching on quality folks; and, following this, had engaged in a fight with the disappointed little boy's coloured attendant, who resented this slur upon the social standing of her small charge.

From Place to Place 1910