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Example sentences for "breeches"

Lexicographically close words:
bredth; breead; breech; breechcloth; breeched; breeching; breechings; breechless; breechloader; breechloaders
  1. He sent for me, took a gold medal from his breeches pocket, and gave it to me with the request that I would go to England, see the managers of the exhibition, and keep an eye on the exhibition when opened.

  2. He dug in the pockets of his capacious breeches and fished out some beautifully decorated Easter eggs a peasant had just given him, and presented one to me.

  3. Our taxes all run out of the breeches pockets of those Two Families (Petrovitch and Karageorgevitch).

  4. His breeches were of blue velvet, and his sash and the kerchief which bound his head were of crimson silk.

  5. Captain Lingo took from his breeches pocket a small key and unlocked the door.

  6. The little man wore blue knee breeches and black stockings and buckled shoes, and his coat was cut away in front over his stomach and had two tails behind, down to his knees.

  7. As they were going up the Stairs, there were things thrown at them, which were, just before in the low Room, and when they went down the Stairs, the old Mans Breeches were thrown down after them.

  8. The Admiral, seeing him so humble and so handsome, embraced him and dressed him in breeches and shirt of silk, which the Captain had given out of the store for barter, supplied with this object by His Majesty.

  9. He dressed him in a pair of breeches and shirt of yellow silk, put a hat upon his head, a tin medal round his neck, gave him a case of knives, embraced him, and ordered the boat to go on shore.

  10. His breeches were of white buckskin cut by Lord Sandford's own tailor, and he wore long boots fitted with silver spurs, albeit he scarcely ever had need of the latter when he bestrode Don Carlos.

  11. Grey wore his favourite workman-like suit of fine buff, stamped in silver, with white buckskin breeches and long boots.

  12. Rostov wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front the better.

  13. The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his breeches and arm.

  14. He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.

  15. He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head.

  16. The gunboats were unwieldy craft, flat-bottomed, and, as the sea made clean breeches over them, they were a dozen times in danger of sinking.

  17. He had a little cap, a Taglioni coat, a pair of beautiful spaniels, and a pair of knee-breeches which showed a very handsome old leg; and his object seemed to be to invite everybody to dinner as they got off the coach.

  18. Why should a man at Ahascragh let his home go to ruin, and stuff his windows with ragged breeches instead of glass, because Mr. Smith is agent in place of Mr. Jones?

  19. His knee-breeches were of black satin, red plush, or blue cloth, according to his fancy.

  20. He wore short breeches with brass or silver knee-buckles, red or blue garters, and rather stout, coarse leather shoes, strapped over the quarter.

  21. Under his linen milking-pinner he wore a dark velveteen jacket, cord breeches and gaiters, and a starched white shirt.

  22. As he said this, he held out his hand towards his polluted brother; but the froward predestinarian took not his from his breeches pocket, but lifting his foot, he gave his brother's hand a kick.

  23. The breeches still suited the thigh, the stocking the leg, and the garters were wrapt as neatly and as firm below the knee as if they had been newly tied.

  24. He sat at the table with his legs stretched under it, and wide apart; his hands in his breeches pockets; his head drooped upon his breast; and gazing with lack-lustre countenance on an empty tankard.

  25. A cocked hat, edged with gold lace; a pair of stiff riding boots; but instead of the usual leathern breeches he had a fragment of a pair of drawers that scarcely furnished an apology for modesty to hide behind.

  26. A pair of leather breeches would seem to be throwing one leg out of the half-open drawers, and empty bottles lumbered the bottom of every closet.

  27. I could not conceive, amidst the smiling landscape, a scene of blood and murder; and the smug citizens in breeches and gaiters, put all ideas of heroes and bandits out of my brain.

  28. His coat and breeches were of a bright green cloth.

  29. Hop into the tunic and red breeches and we'll try it.

  30. LIttle fat cove in red breeches and a white tunic.

  31. He was a small, slight man in correct walking-out dress--a blue tunic, red breeches and white spats.

  32. They went somewhere and changed their clothes, and came back with Louis Quinze perukes, crimson satin coats, with lace fichus and black knee-breeches and stockings, and diamond buckles in their pumps.

  33. The Hungarian band played, and the conductor was such a handsome man; he wore a blue jacket trimmed with astrachan and silver buttons, and black satin knee-breeches with blue stockings.

  34. Meanwhile she pulled on my breeches and shoes, and we hurried out of the house to look.

  35. I had my little white linen breeches on in no time and, as I was, barefoot and bareheaded, I took the heavy round loaf under my arm and ran off to the Knierutschers' house.

  36. So for the second time I got up on his back, thrust my feet in his breeches pockets, and clung with my hands round his neck.

  37. His knee-breeches had certainly once been leather, but now they had many, many patches of other stuffs stuck on with large, ungainly stitches.

  38. Lumps of snow fell into the pockets of my coat, snow clung to my little breeches and stockings, and the water ran down into my shoes.

  39. I gazed at my Sunday breeches and coat and the little black felt hat which were ready hanging on a nail in the wall, and then I looked through the window out at the oncoming dusk.

  40. And now, lad, jump out of bed and get your breeches on; father's not so very far off yet with that birch of his!

  41. But the boy turned both vest and breeches pockets inside out, so they should see that he owned nothing.

  42. He was dressed in leather breeches and wooden shoes like any other working man.

  43. He had an old, wrinkled and beardless face, and was dressed in a black frock coat, knee-breeches and a broad-brimmed black hat.

  44. Uncle Isaac, I can tell you, is an all fired strong man; it don’t lay in Joe Bradish’s breeches to pull him up.

  45. The minister had a coat and breeches for Sabbath; so of a few of the seafaring people and their families; but the clothing of the people in general was both manufactured and made up at home, there being no such thing as a tailor.

  46. In those days people did not wear suspenders, but kept their breeches up by buttoning the waistband, or by a belt.

  47. There's cut and run,' cried the sailor, thrusting all the money into his breeches pocket.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breeches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.