A pause was then made to show the benefits of wet feet as against the apparent disadvantages of filthy stockings and muddy boots; for mothers even in that time were inclined to consider their floors and steps.
Mr. Martin also contrived to employ himself in knitting coarse yarn stockings while driving or rather jogging along the road, or when seated on his saddle-bags on horseback.
Stockings are so cheap nowadays; but I do think hum-knit wears better for boys.
Willie and George do scour out stockings 'mazin' fast.
Meantime the guard in the gold-laced crimson coat and yellow silk stockings paced up and down.
The guide-book assures us that the paysannes walk barefoot on the country roads; but, upon approaching the town, they cover their wayworn feet with the cherished shoes and stockings that have thus been spared from wear and tear.
Sabina and Freda, who wore no stockings on their shapely brown legs, exhorted Ashurst to join them in the middle of it, and help sieve the water.
She had knit warm, new stockings for both boys from yarn bought at the trading post.
All three wore fur caps and mittens, woolen capotes, and thick knitstockings under their moccasins.
Put those shoes on the other side of the table; and throw the stockings over the back of the chair.
His companion was relieved; and following the fat legs and white stockings of the old footman up the narrow staircase, they were soon in a small lobby which led into the drawing-room.
The roan with the white stockings showed a red ridge across its flank where a bullet had furrowed a path.
This was that the roan with the white stockingshad been picked up seven miles from Noches the morning after the holdup.
I found Mr. Keller riding a roan with four whitestockings and a wound on its flank.
He contented himself with saying that the roan with the white stockings had been stolen from the pasture before the holdup.
This, with our red clothstockings and green high-heeled shoes, completed the adjustment, in which we appeared before the Prince.
She had mittens, a black quilted petticoat, and her aunt Maria's old drab stockings drawn over her shoes to keep the snow from her ankles.
I cannot cut out: I can make a bonnet, and I can mend stockings in a boggling, amateur kind of way, and that is all!
St. John, coming down the handsome, shallow stairs in knickerbockers and heather-mixture stockings that his old mother made him.
The snow is gone, but not without leaving Miss Craven the legacy of a very bad cold, derived from countless soaked stockings and neglected wet petticoats.
Recollecting whose stockings it was that she had been used to mend in the boggling way she speaks of, a knife passes through her quivering heart.
She seated herself on the bed, her stockings hanging from her hand, and fell again to listening to Erik.
Thoughts and stockings side by side somewhere on the floor.
Her blue, bright dress fluttered in the wind, her thick scarlet stockingswere brilliant above the whiteness.
Gudrun came to Ursula's bedroom with three pairs of the coloured stockings for which she was notorious, and she threw them on the bed.
The hat was of a pale, greenish straw, the colour of new hay, and it had a plaited ribbon of black and orange, the stockingswere dark green, the shoes black.
Her stockings always disconcerted him, the pale-yellow stockings and the heavy heavy black shoes.
She was wearing a soft blue dress, and her stockings were of dark red.
Here they ran delicately ashore, with their frail boat, the two girls took off their shoes and stockings and went through the water's edge to the grass.
Feeling her sister's resistance, Gudrun drew awkwardly away, turned over the pillow, and disclosed the stockings again.
Her shoes and stockings were of brownish grey, like the feathers on her hat, her hair was heavy, she drifted along with a peculiar fixity of the hips, a strange unwilling motion.
First thing you know I'll steal mamma's or Aunt Flora's stockings and throw these in the furnace-I will.
One of the stockings was green silk, and the other was black, and both had holes in them, but all that mattered was the length.
Well, I s'pose I'll have to stand the curls and little baby stockingsawhile longer," said he.
Silk stockings and buckled shoes would have been more in keeping with the period than those boots," whispered Bess to Mildred.
After one tear flowed another, And her bitter tears flowed freely Down from off her scarletstockings To her shoes, all gold-embroidered.
When the prisoner was himself searched, between his stockings and the soles of his feet were pieces of flannel, and in one of them was a small piece of metal, ingeniously formed into a kind of picklock.
The suspicion is a very ungallant one, but I cannot help imagining that when two Blue-Stockings get together, they do love a good soaking.
The costume for both sexes consists of long stockings or drawers, over which are breeches extending from the shoulders to below the knees; and a frock or jacket, somewhat shorter than the breeches with sleeves and hood.
Their feet and legs are commonly bare, notwithstanding the high latitude in which they live; but they sometimes wear skin stockings and mittens.
They also make stockings of swamp grass, and cloaks of sturgeon-skin.
The parkas and stockings of the Kuskoquims are of reindeer-skin, covered with embroidery, and trimmed with valuable furs.
After some hours' walk, he began to observe that his silk stockings were inconvenient for traversing a forest.
The buccaneer, instead of replying to the chevalier, remained stupefied at the odd appearance of this man, who, staff in hand, had traversed a forest in pink stockings and coat of taffeta and embroidered vest.
Silk stockings and Spanish breeches, buttoned down the outer seams and open below the knees, took the place of my tattered pantaloons and buffalo leggings.
I had to content myself with the neckcloth and a pair of silk stockings which I had in my saddlebags.
Yet, even had I not been in so grave a frame of mind, I had my silk stockings and fine buckled shoes to consider.
Divested of the thick mantle worn by them out of doors, the women had assumed a long, coloured smock-frock with tight-fitting pantaloons that reached to the ankles, and their varnished shoes allowed coarse worsted stockings to be seen.
Their trousers were made of sealskin, their stockings of dogskin, their mittens of sealskin, and their waistcoat of kidskin with the fur inside.
The sailors, instead of the fystan, wear a very wide pair of trousers, andstockings instead of gaiters.
What, I wondered, became of the gloves and stockings of the recently extinguished female speck?
Twenty or thirty tall, thin girls in short black frocks, displaying grimy stockings and coarse shoes, or bare legs and muddy red feet, were waiting their turns to fill the long wooden casks they carried on their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stockings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
