Up to now we had received a few kilts of the large size only, so we had only a few of the biggest men fitted out, and drill order was always trousers.
The skirl of the pipes and the sight of the kilts moved the population to great enthusiasm, both vocal and osculatory, and we had a regular triumphal procession.
Then our sodgers were drest in their kilts and short hose, Wi’ their bonnets and belts which their dress did compose, And a bag of oatmeal on their backs to make brose.
They experienced the deadly wrath of our true Highlanders, whose blood was roused because of the indignity offered to the kilts in the foe attempting to deceive our troops thereby.
I used to have mair colds before I took to wearing kilts than ever I've had since I made a practice of gie'in up my troosers.
There'll be those who'll be wantin' me to let a Soviet tell me what songs to sing to ye, and what the pattern of my kilts should be.
He then bore the dishonor of kilts with what manfulness he could and with a creed which was recited something like this: "We don't care to play with Mitch any more, do we, Mother?
I dread to think that you are telling him to tear his kilts "all to splinters.
With prompt disfavor he regarded the blue suit of kilts edged with lacy braid, and although there was reluctance in Mother's heart, she began to look for the missing knickerbockers.
They sat on mats in their white kilts and jackets; they had fans in their hands, like fine ladies; and two of the younger ones wore Catholic medals, which gave me matter of reflection.
The sailor suits can be bought best of Redfern, at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight; the kilts of Swears also.
After the kilts boys can take to jackets and trousers, which in perfection can only be bought of Swears and Wells, Regent Street, W.
I wanted to meet the Highland Brigade, and see the bonnie laddies in their kilts as the Huns saw them--the Huns, who called them the Ladies from Hell, and hated them worse than they hated any troops in the whole British army.
But his blood turns to water in his veins when he sees the big braw laddies from the Hielands come swooping toward him, their kilts flapping and their bayonets shining in whatever light there is.
Several times, for one reason or another, I have laid mykilts aside and put on trousers.
There was no wild charge of Highlanders with flying kilts and glittering bayonets.
On this foggy November night the troops arrived with their kiltsand hose-tops sodden with water and mud.
The men were tall, fine-looking fellows; some had on turbans and cloaks, and all had wide kiltsof native cloth, and the women were decently habited in petticoats.
Our surprise was great, when we approached the house, to find two lines of soldiers drawn up, dressed in white kilts with white belts across their naked shoulders, with a musket or spear.
Some of them, whom, we took to be chiefs, wore turbans over their frizzled-out hair, and mantles and kilts of native cloth.
The Laughlan lady, in walking, at each step gives a little twist to the hips, which has the effect of making the kilts fly out right and left, in what is considered a highly fashionable and beautiful manner.
To see ten or twelve of these ladies walking in the unsociable formation of single file, which they adopt, with their many-coloured kilts flying out on either side, is a very pretty sight.
Among the important appurtenances of Seri life are the cords used for belts and necklaces, as well as for the attachment of ceremonial headdresses, for converting the kilts into bags, and for numberless minor purposes.
If I had thocht o't I wad hae brocht my kilts and my pibroch and a' that.
By the bonnie Highland laddies In theirkilts and their plaidies, To a wholly new sensation I was stirred.
Those braw, bonnie laddies In their kilts and their plaidies, And I stared at them with pleasure and surprise.
Of this more anon; kilts are not at home on the Borders, though I have seen one on the Welsh Marches, worn in conjunction with a pith helmet by a retired Liverpool tradesman.
She was ready before I was, I having to unlace my shooting-boots, and she stepped out into the water, kilts fluttering, moving her white feet cautiously.
And away we went into the woods, she leading, her kilts flashing through the golden half-light.
He had been strange and distant with her ever since that tall boy in kilts had been there.
There were also many such kilts and corselets and helmets.
Ah, this comes of living so long with kilts and bonnets--men forget the use of their daddies.
On followed the fat Maxwelton, his plaid streaming and his kilts flapping about his fat legs--also two rings!
We could not, however, make it of sufficient strength for the sails; still, the material we manufactured would serve to form a roof for the cabin, or it might do for kilts or for cloaks.
They are dressed in the old Scotch fashion, with short stockings, bare knees, andkilts (a short skirt which comes nearly to the knee).
When the bride reached Balmoral, a company of volunteers in kilts were waiting to receive her.
When the royal guests went into the house and were escorted up the wide stone staircase long lines of Highlanders in kilts stood on both sides of the hall and the stairway.
He had known Tom Cameron since they wore kilts together, and back of their friendship, his mother’s family had known the Camerons for generations.
As a laddie he had played among them and hidden himself—short kilts and all—beneath their bloom.
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