His jerkin and hose were of motley, the left arm and right leg being blue, their opposites, orange tawny, while the nether socks and shoes were in like manner black and scarlet counterchanged.
Hal Randall, who was in attendance on the Cardinal, declared that it was a mere surfeit of jewels and gold and silver, and that a frieze jerkin or leathern coat was an absolute refreshment to the sight.
He wore a closejerkin of thick blue homespun, and his broad-topped boots were strapped round his short pantaloons.
Pull up the right sleeves of your jerkin and sark.
Ralph put the warrant back, charred and crumbled, into the breast pocket of the jerkin he wore.
At Mrs. Ray's feet her son Willy lies on the grass in a blue jerkin and broad-brimmed black hat with a plume.
Over a jerkin he wore the long sack coat, belted and buckled, of the dalesmen of his country.
See you, my butler of Rozel, you shall speak the truth, or I'll have you where that jerkin will fit you not so well a month hence.
By my father's doublet, but that frieze jerkin is well cut; it suits thy figure well--I would that my Lord Leicester here had such a tailor.
Instead of that, I believe you keep doves, and wear a jerkin that fits like a king's.
Did she not say that my jerkin fitted neatly when I did act as butler to her adorable Majesty three months syne?
Then he removed his leather jerkin and dropped against a bolster, still puzzling about Shirin.
They all wore tight, neat headdresses and formal cotton top shirts, and Hawksworth felt a sudden consciousness of his own clothes--muddy boots and powder-smeared jerkin and breeches.
Hawksworth stood in the shadows of his tent, at the edge of the vast Imperial camp, and pulled his frayed leather jerkin tighter against the cold.
He reviewed Hawksworth's leatherjerkin and seaboots with disdain.
Brian Hawksworth's lean frame towered above the crowd, conspicuous in jerkin and seaboots.
The man backed away for an instant and discreetly assessed Hawksworth's worn jerkin with a quick glance.
His despair absolute, he reached into the pocket of his jerkin for the bottle.
Mumtaz nodded discreetly toward Hawksworth, who stood uncomprehending, his haggard face and jerkin smeared with smoke.
He shoved the jerkin and sword aside and cut upward with his own blade, miraculously imbedding it in the exposed neck of the turbaned guard.
Almost without thinking, he searched the pocket of his jerkin until his fingers closed around a flask of brandy.
The most valuable article was a jerkinwith breeches and white hose, the whole of superior material, estimated at eighteen livres.
A tawny yellow jerkin turned up with red calamanco (1760).
The jerkin was made of leather and also various kinds of cloth and sometimes is mentioned in inventories.
He wore a leather jerkin lined with steel rings, mail as stout as any forged.
He insisted on stuffing the whole of my jerkin under my blouse to give my figure the proper curves, and to make me a waist he drew the lacing-cords till I was like to suffocate.
And he, good fellow, grasping my collar, contrived to pull my loose jerkin away from my back, so that he dusted it down without greatly incommoding me.
Conrad, indeed, never looked better or more princely than in that rough jerkin of blue, together with the corded forester's breeches and knitted hose which he had borrowed from Theresa's dumb servitor.
Every ring in this foul devil's jerkin is imprinted an inch deep on my hide, and itches worse than a hundred beggars at a church door.
So soon as he saw that I had at once descried the band, though he attempted to hide it with his sleeve, he sought to put off my questioning, at first with a jest and then with wrathful impatience flung on his jerkin and turned his back on me.
He looked like a poor franklin in his rough brown jerkin and leather-gartered hose, and broad hat, and he bore no weapon but a short seax in his belt, and a quarterstaff, and there was nought about him to claim notice.
No; but here is your jerkin that you left to cover him.
Fred required no further hint, but stripping off his jerkin and rolling up his sleeves, he was soon at work scooping up the water and sending it flying and sparkling in the morning sunshine, while Scarlett sat and chatted.
He stripped off his jerkin and rolled his shirt up over his knotted limbs, right to the shoulder, displaying thew and sinew of which a gladiator might have been proud.
The bread and fowl were placed with the bottle on the jerkin at the far end of the little tunnel where Nat had lain, and Fred backed out.
So he had stripped off buff jerkin and gorget, and placed them, his weapons, cavalier hat, and heavy horseman's boots in the wood where he had secured his horse.
His jerkin and hose were of motley, the left arm and right leg being blue, their opposites, orange tawny, while the nether stocks and shoes were in like manner black and scarlet counterchanged.
The buff jerkin was now cleared from its rusty stains and spots of dirt, and was shining in the full freshness of chalk and yellow ochre.
Hitherto my ragged shirt, my rough leathern jerkin and open-kneed sailor's breeches had been a constant reminder of the poor, desperate rogue I had become, my wild hair and shaggy beard evidences of slavedom.
This book Peter thrust away within his jerkin to study at his leisure.
As Jean threw the jerkin over his father's shoulders, he felt that it was lined throughout with metal rings, and was impervious to a sword-blow or a pike-thrust.
The blow would have been fatal had not the old man worn Le Gros Guillem's jerkinlined with ring mail.
Unlike Roland's tunic, however, the jerkin failed to hide his armor.
Archers are depicted in Oriental costume, wearing peaked caps with long lappets and a close-fitting dress of leather, consisting of jerkin and trousers, usually embroidered with various patterns.
His jerkin was trimmed with gold lace, which he gave to Sir Richard Pecksal, the high sheriff.
Then I made no more delay, but stripped the man of his armour, and also of the stout leathern jerkin he wore beneath it, for I was clad in the rags of feasting garb, as I have said, and hated them even as I threw them aside.
It was a small sturdy boy of some ten years old, red haired, and freckled all over where his woollen jerkin and leather hose did not cover him.
Lay on till I get angry, it will make me forget," and taking a leathern jerkin off a peg he pulled it over his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jerkin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blazer; coat; jacket
