But this was assumed to be unintelligible; and it was merely the apology to his conscience in communion with the sprite of a petticoated fair one who was being subjected to tender little liberties, necessarily addressed in enigmas.
Now there appeared a petticoated one stationary against the rails, with her face lifted.
She is a witch; ordinarilypetticoated and not squeaking like a shrew-mouse in her flights, but not a whit less a moon-shade witch.
Alban entertained a strong suspicion that no such girl was in existence; that she was a pure fiction and myth; or that, if Jasper were compelled to produce some petticoated fair, she would be an artful baggage hired for the occasion.
But the gamin was petticoated and the burlesque scenes set in a comedy.
First of all we have the credulous, ingenuous Ingarfield, dragging in his train Una, the petticoated apostle of the prison and the house of ill-fame, the young virgin whose joy it is to attempt the conversion of rogues and prostitutes.
That was natural; but to have a petticoated young person infesting your house, hourly, was as preposterous as ice-cream soda at breakfast.
I'm no petticoated Paul Peel, but I can see enough beauty in the curves of that velvety body to lift it up and bite it on its promptly protesting little flank.
One boy who had attained to the dignity of knickerbockers used to speak of his petticoated predecessor as a little girl.
A big black mongrel appeared worrying at one of two petticoated urchins on the ground.
Whatever he had done, it was to establish the petticoated hornet in the dignity of matron of a champion light-weight's wholesome retreat of a public-house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petticoated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
