I like that striped petticoat of yours, too, and that gay handkerchief you wear round your shoulders.
She then returned to the bed, and threw her petticoat over her shoulders.
Would tear the flounce off her too lacy petticoat to bind up a messenger boy's cut finger, and no scarf-pin that came within three feet of her was immune from her quick touch.
They stepped out of the shade like apparitions, and passed under the light of a gas lamp with their pale masks fully apparent; then they grew vague again as they went off into the darkness, with a white strip of petticoat swinging to and fro.
Gervaise lifted up the petticoat that was being ironed and found her rolling on the floor with laughter.
But she soon laid it down on the work-table, between a petticoat and a bundle of shirts.
Madame Putois began to work on the petticoat again.
He's a petticoat specialist, even though I gave him some pretty hard kicks under the table.
I did pepper her, sure enough; her old flannel petticoat was full of shot, but it was so thick that it saved her.
Although her gown was pinned up, leaving half of her short, striped petticoat visible, and a blue and white spotted handkerchief concealed her dark hair, Sally did not stop to think of that.
Martha's dress of heavy pearl-gray satin was looped up over a petticoat of white dimity, and she wore a short cloak of white crape.
The women have a kind of petticoat made of the filaments of the plantain-tree, flags, or some such thing, which reaches below the knee.
The petticoat is made at least six or eight inches thick, but not one inch longer than necessary for the use designed.
I saw a few women, and I thought them ugly; they wore a kind of petticoat made of palm-leaves, or some plant like it.
Simply, freely, naturally, and without a second thought, he put out his hand to feel whether her petticoat was dry.
She had worn an old red blouse which she had not troubled to tuck in at the waist, a petticoat of faded greenish-blue (no gypsophylla there), and her legs and feet had been bare.
Have you brought a petticoat home for me, and shoes for your children?
In the mean time the landlady equipped the priest to admiration: she put him on a clothpetticoat all pinked and slashed, and a corset of green velvet with a border of white satin.
They borrowed a petticoat and head-dress of the landlady; and the barber made himself a huge beard of the tail of a pied ox, in which the innkeeper used to hang his comb.
At that summons, out came the mother, spinning a lock of coarse flax, with a russet petticoat about her, a waistcoat of the same, and her smock hanging loose about it.
The Chontales, on the other hand, are said to have been a savage and debased race, while the Cholutecs were brave and cruel but subject to petticoat rule.
The women and female children wear a petticoat of skin, with a heavy fringe reaching down to the knees; in some districts they also wear short capes covering the breasts.
Among the Weeyots at Eel River the men 'wore a deer-skin robe over the shoulder, and the women a short petticoat of fringe.
In Tabasco, the dress of the men differs little from that of the people of Tehuantepec; the Tabascan women wear a cotton petticoator a few yards of calico wrapped round the waist, and reaching below the knees.
The Kliketat women wear a short pine-bark petticoat tied round the loins.
A substitute for this petticoat in some tribes is a square piece of leather attached to a belt in front; and in others a long strip of deer-skin passed between the thighs and wound about the waist.
Breech-cloth and moccasins are the ordinary dress of the men,[654] while the women have a short petticoat of bark.
The Pericúi women are the best dressed of all, having a petticoat reaching from the waist to the ankles, made from the fibre of certain palm-leaves, and rendered soft and flexible by beating between two stones.
In country places women wear the petticoat alone, using the overskirt or huipil only on special occasions.
Over the petticoat they wear a frock with sleeves to the wrist, leaving the bosom and neck exposed.
But with Permission, Madam, how does this Change of Petticoat for Breeches, and shifting Houses too, advance that Love?
Sirrah, Sirrah, let it be your care to examine all the Nunneries, for my own part not a Petticoat shall escape me.
All this I shall indulge them in; but as for the petticoat I have been speaking of, I neither can nor will allow it.
At my entrance into the room, they were naming a red petticoat and a cloak, by which I found that the Bencher had been diverting them with a story of Jack Ogle.
This was all done accordingly; and forthwith, upon the closing of the engine, the petticoat was brought into court.
The counsel for the petticoat were now called in, and ordered to produce what they had to say against the popular cry which was raised against it.
And so, you see, it came out just as it did in the book: Pussy Cat Mole jumped over a coal, and in her best petticoat burned a great hole.
After she jumped over a coal, and in her best petticoat burned a great hole, I helped her mend it so she could go to the party.
Or, rather, I was going until I jumped over a coal, and in my best petticoat burned a great hole.
Sometimes, on the contrary, the petticoat is perfectly plain, and has no folds.
The long petticoat is sleeved, and gathered into a sinus below the breasts, about which it hangs loosely.
On the Electra line the lower edge of the inner petticoat of each insulator is about 3-1/2 inches, and on the Colgate line about 4 inches above the cross-arm.
The older insulator has its petticoats 2 inches above the cross-arm, and the lower petticoatof the new insulator is 3 inches above the arm.
From the edge of the top to the edge of the bottom petticoat the direct distance is 8-1/2 inches.
This inner petticoat runs down the pin for a distance of 7-1/2 inches below the outer petticoat.
The next or middle petticoat has a maximum diameter of 10 inches and the lowest petticoat one of 8 inches.
Ann in her pretty petticoat of rose-colored stuff, stepping daintily over the young grass and the flowers, looked and felt like a part of it all.
Her jewels and fine clothes were all taken away from her, even her rick-rack dress, and she put on her blue petticoat and short gown, and straw flat again.
The bride wore a white damask petticoat worked with pink roses, her pink satin shortgown was looped up with garlands of them, and she wore a wreath of roses on her head.
Drusilla had left off her pretty bluepetticoat and white short gown now, and was dressed in gold-flowered satin, with an immense train, which two pages bore for her when she walked.
But have nothing to do with this little job, my dear boy; it is too strong of the petticoat to be good business.
A petticoat of Eleanor's, flung hastily on to the bed, caught his eye, a blue silk petticoat that he remembered her buying soon after they were married.
Just then I heard the flutteration of a silk petticoaton the porch behind the vines, but Rufe was gazing so hard at the blue hills on the far side of town that he didn't hear it.
She began to dress herself rapidly, discarding her lace-trimmed petticoat and putting on plain garments such as a peasant child would wear.
She settled back comfortably against the pillows and called Flambeau's attention to some black baby pigs which a woman in a scarlet petticoat was feeding at a moss-covered wooden trough.
A bridge communicates with the largest, on which "petticoat daffodils" grow, and the couples that may occasionally be seen going over there doubtless do so to gather these.
