She told that when the Prince put on women's cloaths he proposed carrying a pistol under one of his petticoats for making some small defence in case of an attack.
If it was true that the Prince lifted the petticoats too high in wading the rivulet when going to Kingsburgh, and that honest MacKechan[68] hastily called to him to beware?
This city had emerged from New Amsterdam; the old vrouws, with their feather beds and their multiplicity of petticoats and their scrupulously clean houses and their floors with patterns traced in sand, had passed away.
The dress of these ladies "consisted of a jacket of cloth or silk and a number of short petticoats of every stuff and color, quilted in fanciful figures.
All of a sudden the pretty, fair-haired girl with the rumpled neckerchief broke into shrieks as if her petticoats were afire.
Her petticoats were kilted and revealed the filth on her enormous calves and thick ankles.
In short, there was nobody knew better how to make his way among the petticoats than my grandfather.
This opportunity she also takes to wear those lace petticoats which, having survived the terrors of the British laundry, succumb to British mud.
The petticoats had to go by themselves in a separate part of the closet, and the shoes were all put in pairs in the bag on the door, instead of being left on the floor in piles.
I am delighted to see that you have no dress or petticoats lying around this morning from last night.
She also got out the ironing-board, because the flannel petticoats were easier to manage on this than on the table.
Equestrian tights are made on the same principle and for a similar purpose as union suits, namely, to properly and surely cover the limbs and in a measure displace the great load of petticoats that women usually wear.
But you just now said petticoats and lingery was the same thing.
You can't tell me petticoats is made out of a strip of white stuff less'n a half-inch wide.
You do not ken me for the thing I am: If you but guessed, you’d fling the door wide open, And draw your petticoats about you tight, Lest any draggletail of mine should smutch them.
And it is devoutly to be hoped that the unwieldy masses of petticoats serve at least one useful purpose by shielding their wearers from the saline missiles of love's artillery.
The group tapered off with a wee boy in a quaintly cut long frock and a white Carlist cap, and a baby in bunching petticoats and a muslin cap with wings.
Some of the women rode mules, and sat perched high on a pile of sheepskins, their multi-coloured petticoats billowing about their neat ankles.
Formerly when a girl was engaged to be married, in addition to numerous petticoats she wore a number of ornaments suspended from her neck and hanging down her back.
This makes an excellent finish for the bottom of underskirts, petticoats and drawers.
This is the placket used on dress skirts, petticoats and carefully tailored garments.
There came by a pedlar, whose name was Stout, He cut her petticoatsall round about; He cut her petticoats up to the knees, Which made the old woman to shiver and freeze.
Her sturdy heels flew up in the air, while herpetticoats flopped back in her face, bewildering her.
Disconcerted and mortified, Mrs. Gammit scrambled to her feet, shook her petticoats into shape, and glanced about to see if the wilderness in general had observed her indiscretion.
What is all this aboutpetticoats and pro's, Mrs. Norris?
And she talked pretty wildly about petticoats and puppies, work-boxes and rocking-horses, and had many bitter words for her enemy Pro; and all her mother could say would not soothe her.
In the Palace Hotels she had met women of soldierly aspect and common hands, smoking at all hours, with their feet up and the white triangle of their petticoats stretched over the seat.
The devil always follows after petticoatslike a lap-dog.
Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays, that for the encouragement of ingenuity and useful inventions, he may be heard before you pass sentence upon the petticoats aforesaid.
They are quickly recognized; vulgar and awkward, they hide under their ungraceful petticoatsthe instincts of man, and masculinity is displayed up to their corsage.
Women always have a lot of strings under theirpetticoats and sometimes there are knots, knots, knots.
And she rose also, and ran off to her room, laughing like a madcap, and carrying her dress and petticoats under her arm.
It is only what other men would have spent on petticoats and horses.
Yet there is a delight in practical things when shoes are for certain feet, and the petticoats to hide a certain comely pair of ankles.
Mr. Pepys did not like the gleam of the gun-barrel, nor the mystery of the place; but he felt more at ease, now that he had something in petticoats to deal with.
Petticoats bustled up the stairs, and the daughter of the house appeared with a tray held like a buckler across her bosom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petticoats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
