How many Headstrings and Garters had been made accessory, and actually forfeited, only because Folks must needs quarrel with their own Shadows?
Valentine's Day was still a day of love missives, and of presents of gloves, jewellery, silk stockings, and ornamental garters from gentlemen to their valentines.
Well of course you ought to have black satin knickerbockers and a hat with white [Pg 63] feathers also garters and a star or two.
I am glad of that said Mr Salteena I am [Pg 66] not so nimble as I was and my garters are a trifle tight.
Mr Salteena purspired rarther hard and gave a hitch to his garters to make sure.
Look at that wise young minx with the garters there; I'd have him to heel as she has her boy.
I'm perfectly willing to learn, either from Peggy with her garters or anybody else.
You'd better forget Peggy and her garters and get back into your nice quiet tea-gowns again!
Those on the hind feet he secured not only by tightening the draw strings but also rigged garters that fastened tightly around the legs above the hocks.
And to instance in Family, we find Argent Three Demy-Garters Azure, buckled and garnished, Or, granted by King Hen.
THERE is an House appointed for his Habitation within Windsor Castle, called Garters Tower.
There were made for the Sovereign Three Harnesses, whereof Two were of White Velvet, wrought over with Garters de blu & diaspris per totum compedmein cum Woodhouses; and the Third de Velvetto Ynde cont.
These were distinguished from the lesser Garters, anciently embroider’d upon the Surcoats and Hoods of the Sovereigns and Knights-Companions, by the Name of Garters Gross.
Besides, the Buckles and Pendants to those small Garters, were Silver gilt; of these Garters there were no less than 160 upon the first Surcoat and Hood made for the Founder.
He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mothers or sisters, and raises a great deal of mirth among them by inquiring, as often as he meets them, how they wear.
Spectator had ventured some criticism upon muffs andgarters and fringed gloves and other "foppish ornaments.
Tell Miss Alice Corbin," he adds, "that I verily believe the rats knew I was to win a pair of garters from her, or they never would have been so cruel as to carry mine away.
And not contented with plenty for the present, they carried away my jemmy-worked silk garters and half a dozen new minuets I had just got.
He was dressed in his Holland shirt, with great stockings, his garters hung round with shillings, and had girdles of wampom upon his head and shoulders.
All tight bands of the waist and knee garters must be discarded at this time.
Tight garters worn below the knee, and closely laced corsets, tend to cause and increase this swollen condition of the veins.
Therefore the garters should not be tightly drawn, and gaiters should not be too closely fitted, while yet they should firmly support the ankle.
It is amusing to watch the excitement in their faces as the garters are dealt out, and to hear the shrieks of delight of the lucky ones and the groans of the less fortunate.
Before he was able to do this he had to have recourse to the system of drawing lots by putting garters on each load, a system which I have already described in a previous chapter.
These garters were shuffled, as one might shuffle a pack of cards, after which a single garter was laid upon each load.
The method of adjudication was as follows:--From each of the families who were regarded as responsible for the supply of a transport animal was taken one of the embroidered garters by which the man's felt boots are kept in their place.
What's a mitre to a mob-cap--what the gartersof a peer to the garters of the Lady Adeliza?
The left garters of two persons were then tied round the Bible, and these two persons placed their right forefingers under the bow of the key, repeating at the same time the above-mentioned verse.
The Prince gave to Miss MacDonald the garters he wore with the woman's cloaths, which were French, of blue velvet covered upon one side with white silk, and fastened with buckles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
