Fully two hundred of the enemy massed on the hill, commanded by a squat officer in breeks and wearing a peruke Anglicè, that went oddly with his tartan plaid.
They may weel affoord se'enteen hunner linen to set it aff wi' 'at has naething but coaton inside the breeks o' them.
It made its reappearance in Thrums, several months after the riot, as two pairs of Sabbath breeks for her sons, James and Andrew.
Even the laddie kept a stiff face, and for me I forgot my breeks in watching the Governor.
So we got on our horses and started the procession--the Governor with his head in the air, and the laddie endenvouring to look calm and collected, and me praying to the God of Israel and trying to keep my breeks from working up above my knees.
He was fortunate in finding Mr. Lomax at home, devouring a frugal meal of brandy and soda, preparatory to appearing before Vice-Chancellor Bacon in the celebrated case of Breeks v.
He had been away for his holidays, and had just returned, brown and invigorated, and ready to grapple with and subdue that insatiable monster, “Breeks and Woolfer.
The breeks they brought, o' good grey tweed, And laid them oot upon the bed.
At the close of our interview, he also alluded to his precious breekswith which, in his opinion, rest the onus probandi of his adventure.
Firstly, Coming ower a stile this mornin', my breeks got an unco' skreed.
The sum would excite ridicule were I to name it; but sure I am that the pockets of the noted Green-Breeks never held as much money of his own.
But I canna leave ony Scots lad to want for a pair o' breeksand a cloak to cover his nakedness--or what amounts to the same thing, as the monkey said when he sat down on the hot girdle and gat up again before he was fairly rested.
It is noted by Breeks [3] that Kurguli (Sholur) is the oldest of the Kota villages, and that the Badagas believe that the Kotas of this village were made by the Todas.
My informant was, or pretended to be ignorant of the following legend recorded by Breeks as to the origin of the worship of the smallpox goddess.
One was a scarred, sinister-looking ruffian in leatherbreeks and ragged cloak; the other was Tarascus, king of Nemedia.
Reed breeksdid na suit Jock's taste at the best o' times, and he had no been brocht up to countenance yellow facin's.
Some think he daub'd his breeks that hit, But that remains a query yet.
So now for Tim Bodkin awse send, To darn maw silk breeks at the knee, Thou thy ruffles and frills mun get ready, Next Whitsunday married we'll be.
So Bill he sneaks a corporal's breeks and a belt of pipeclayed hide, And splices them on to the jibsail-boom like a troopship on the tide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dungarees; pantaloon; pants
