Bart resolved to keep his best knickerbockers for the mother-fingers to mend.
He was attired in an orange and blue-striped football jersey, and the most respectable pair of knickerbockers he possessed.
I often wonder that, for some exigencies of weather, the outdoor red-flannel knickerbockers which one wears in Canada are not more in use here.
Knickerbockers talk quality, but dey ain't got quality mannahs--Missy Patsy is de only one of dem with tone.
The Knickerbockers never frequented the market--Jonathan Knickerbocker forbade his family's participation in such vulgar customs.
While Patricia's benefactress gave her message the circle of ghosts was making way for the other Knickerbockers to enter.
As the living Knickerbockers appeared in the room the waggling and chortling fell into a monotone, and the company began to pass in review before them, seemingly desirous of attracting individual notice.
He prated of its mouldering beauties often, forgetting that it was lauded by his townsmen long before the Knickerbockersentered its portals.
Few wore the costly attire one would have expected from the tales spread about them by the Knickerbockersof Vesey Street.
The trembling file of Knickerbockers followed after them, seemingly blown by the wind, whose diabolical wailing reverberated through the house.
Into a yellow blinding glare of light the file of Knickerbockers looked, and their eyes grew gooseberry-like with horror.
Smiling Flora, sleeping Endymion, and all the fabulous court that had stood there years before the coming of the Knickerbockers grew more humanly colored as the moon passed behind a cloud.
I shall never be mean enough to tell that in sublunary times one of the first American Knickerbockers knew me intimately only as my valet.
Together these two elderly Knickerbockers were unweary in their efforts to interpret high life to their circle.
Above them all was a dying requiem of bells, tolling low and mournfully like a warning to belated road-farers that the ghosts of the haughty Knickerbockers were seeking earth again.
Lordship, in a tone loud enough for the Knickerbockers to hear.
A cackle of feeble laughter floated back to the room as if the departingKnickerbockers were still making merry on the stairway to the other world.
Yes, 'twas the face of the ancestress whose portrait Jonathan took down from the line of Knickerbockers in the parlor.
Abel wore knickerbockers and his feet and legs were bare, for he had just waded across the river beyond the Mill, and meant to retreat by the same road.
He was ugly, clumsily built, and displayed large calves in knickerbockers and a hot, bald head.
He was clad in tweed knickerbockers and a Norfolk jacket, of different pattern but similar material.
Indeed, the left knee of Eddy's little knickerbockers showed a rub and a red stain.
She tenderly rolled up the leg of the little knickerbockersand examined the bruised, childish knee.
Bathing tights differed from the knickerbockers in that they were hemmed rather than gathered on an elastic band at the lower edge and that they were not attached to the waist.
These knickerbockers were either attached to the waist in the popular "princess style" or they were fastened to the waist by a series of flat bone buttons.
Wiggins rose gloomily, gloomily took from his knickerbockers pocket his tattered and grimy notebook, gloomily made an entry in it, and gloomily said: "That makes you two games ahead.
Forthwith the Terror pulled off his own coat and jersey and put them on Wiggins; then he pulled off Wiggins' knickerbockers and rubbed his thighs till they reddened; then he pulled off his stockings and pulled them on Wiggins' legs.
The Knickerbockersplayed at Hoboken for many years, passing out of existence only in 1882.
A few farm-folk passed me in the highway and gave me good morning in the fashion of the country, inspecting my knickerbockers at the same time with frank disapproval.
He was a short stoutish man in blue serge knickerbockersand a dark yachting cap.
Her sons in little knickerbockers that fastened to the waistband with large pearl buttons!
A horrific tintype of little Leo in tiny velveteen knickerbockersthat fastened with large, ruble-sized, mother-of-pearl buttons up to an embroidered sailor blouse.
He glanced quickly down at his own little body in the alpaca knickerbockersand sailor blouse, and then, with a sigh of relief, looked up again at the strange group facing him.
The soul in that little body covered with alpaca knickerbockers and a sailor blouse seemed suddenly to have access to a storehouse of knowledge that must have taken centuries, rather than a few short years, to acquire.
A particularly amusing one occurred the other day, when three ladies in knickerbockers and khaki and badges appeared at our soup-kitchen door and announced they were "on duty" there till 6 o'clock.
Hector Munro came in from Ghent with his oddly-dressed ladies, and at first one was inclined to call them masqueraders in their knickerbockers and puttees and caps, but I believe they have done excellent work.
Is this war time, and in a room filled with men and smoke and drink, are women in knickerbockers discussing such things?
A crisp autumn morning, a courtyard filled with motors and brancardiers and men in uniform, and women in knickerbockers and puttees, all lighting cigarettes and talking about repairs and gears and a box of bandages.
She leaned toward me, and I felt rather than saw that she was in shirt and knickerbockers like a boy.
I had known Marcia Wilbraham, as I had known Dudley, ever since I wore blue sergeknickerbockers trimmed with white braid.
He hid in the little wooden house, and refused to emerge until they brought him knickerbockerswith pockets.
You may not go to Pilkington's inknickerbockers made by your mother, make she ever so artfully.
At this moment there came racing across the plaza a perfectly lovely little laddie, bare-legged and bare-headed, with the scantiest of cotton vests and black-cotton knickerbockers on.
The young man in the golf-cap and knickerbockers heard them coming and bit his bloodless lip.
The young man in the golf-cap and knickerbockers clenched his tied hands.
He hesitated; he still wore the same knickerbockers and cap which he had worn in Belgium.
The young man in knickerbockers rose from a brocaded armchair.
This achievement suggests Irving's canonization of the Knickerbockersand Cooper's of the pioneer and the Indian.
Highland village in rather shabby tweed knickerbockers and Inverness cape (yes, the same ones--still no new clothes!
They were mostly dressed in red shirts, blue and white knickerbockersfastened at the knee, and thick brown woollen stockings.
Ordinary woollen knickerbockers will not stand many hard days of chamois stalking in a limestone formation; in fact, the end of the first stalk will probably find them seatless.
Burrs and black swamp-mud stuck to his knickerbockers and golf-stockings; he sat very still save for a constant twitching of the muscles.
So one evening, late in August, still dressed in knickerbockers and heather-spats, he walked from his lawn across country to make the first move in a new game with Mary Ledwith.
Regie, noting the contrast between the boys in knickerbockers and polo caps and this shabby little stranger.
As for Regie, he was as gallant in his manner to these shabby little specimens as to the would-be little aristocrats in velvet knickerbockers and patent leather pumps whom he was accustomed to meet at dancing school.
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