I think it is a matter of medical record, that can be verified from the reports of the army surgeons, that the kilted troops are among the healthiest in the whole army.
And it is the unanimous testimony of German prisoners that this war has brought them no more terrifying sight than the charge of a kilted regiment.
Of course there are Scots regiments that are notkilted and that have naught to do with the Hielanders, who have given as fine and brave an account of themselves as any.
Some of the men I met at Aubigny had been out since Mons--some of the old kilted regiments of the old regular army, they were.
I was glad to see the kilted men of the Scots regiments all about me.
Ah, weel, there are sad thoughts that come to me, as well as proud and happy ones, when I think of the bonnie kilted laddies who fought and died so nobly out there against the Hun!
My voice was very shaky when I came to the end of that chorus, but the great wave of sound from the kiltedladdies rolled out, true and full, unshaken, unbroken.
It had been built in a great field, and all around me, when I mounted it, I could seekilted soldiers--almost as far as my eye could reach.
With arm'd wrist and kilted knee, No prairie Indian half so free: Stand fast, stand fast, Craig Elachie!
See the kilted Highlander As from Egypt's battles come-- Westlander and Norlander, Eager for the sight of home.
The older man's eyes went to the kilted Upper officer who had brought Joe along.
Joe had been able to take immediate delivery of one kilted uniform.
The man with the big drum was lugging it off at the double away from the kilted line, and strung out to either side of him there raced a scattered line of men armed with sticks and biscuit-tins and empty cans.
Some distance beyond, a wave ofkilted Highlanders pressed on at a steady walk up to within about fifty paces of the string of flickering, jumping white patches that marked the edge of the “artillery barrage.
Lady Mary looked very fresh and bright in her neat tailor gown, kilted kirtle, and tight-fitting bodice, with neat little brass buttons.
High kilted was she, High kilted was she, High kilted was she, Her coat aboon her knee.
Sabbath going about all the week carrying burdens of peat, bare-footed and kilted to the knee on account of the bogs, among which they have to chase those small shaggy equines, the Shetland ponies.
With a jerk she disengaged her shoes from the pattens, dropped the broom, and made for the door of her room, with such dignity as her kilted skirt left her.
With indignant haste, and at the last possible moment, the kilted figures scattered to either side of the narrow causeway.
The powder-blue walking suit, with belted jacket and kilted skirt, brought her more within the terms of their ordinary intercourse.
Henrietta bent down, giving her attention to an inch of kilted silk petticoat, showing where it should not, beneath the hem of her blue skirt.
The coat bodice of darker pink moire boasted diamond buttons, kilted frills of ivory lace, the sleeves of kilted pale green chiffon, and a large bow of green chiffon with draped ends to the waist over a jabot of ivory lace.
So it was in one house entered by a little kilted signaler, who shot down three men who tried to kill him.
The Highland division, under his command, fought many battles and gained great honor, even from the enemy, who feared them and called the kilted men "the ladies from hell.
In some of the houses they would not surrender, afraid of certain death, anyhow, and kept the Scots at bay awhile until those kilted men flung themselves in and killed their enemy to the last man.
Elizabeth Ardmore was Leezie Lindsay, who kilted her coats o' green satin to the knee and was aff to the Hielands so expeditiously when her lover declared himself to be 'Lord Ronald Macdonald, a chieftain of high degree.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle, A little aboon her knee; And she has snooded her yellow hair, A little aboon her bree, And she is to her fathers ha' As fast as she can hie.
For Mangerton-House Auld Downie is gane, Her coats she has kilted up to her knee; And down the water wi' speed she rins, While tears in spates fa fast frae her eye.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle, A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair, A little aboon her bree.
The attributes of one kilted chieftain are described to me in curious scraps of illustrative patchwork.
The veteran Sutherland Highlander was one of that "thin red line" which disdained to form square when the Russian squadrons rode with seeming heart at the kilted men on Balaclava day.
He was now a tall, manly piper in kilted uniform, marching and piping with the flower of Scotland's army.
They did so and presently discovered the obstacle; to wit, the mound before the arch which obstructed the waterway; whereupon a party kilted their clothes and waded into the channel that they might clear it.
Suddenly a Kazi rode by him and seeing him with gown kilted up and the hound hanging on to the hook, asked, "What may be the matter with thee, O man?
Ram Nad's misshaped and kiltedcanoe was held fast, and one end lifted from the water by a grappling-iron, at which a sailor was tugging with a rope over the rail.
He was rowed ashore in the gig, and came back later in a misshaped Cingalese canoe, kilted fore and aft, with two coolies for rowers, who promptly departed.
There Ram Nad sat in hiskilted canoe, wringing the water from his garments.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
But Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little above her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little above her bree, And she has gaen for Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kiltedher green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is on to her father's ha, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's away to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is to her father's ha, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
She has plaited her yellow locks A little abune her bree, And she has kilted her petticoats A little below her knee, And she's aff to Mulberry wud, As fast as she could gae.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is on to Miles Cross, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little abune her knee, And she has braided her yellow hair A little abune her bree.
No sooner were we seated on our mat than there ran slowly into the center of the ring a plumed and kilted chief, with sparkling eyes, the perfection of a savage.
A thousandkilted Maories dotted the green landscape with patches of brilliant tartans and scarlet cloth.
Long may he tread Gevaudan with his kilted skirts--a man strong to walk and strong to comfort his parishioners in death!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
