In those fine days boys from five to fifteen years of age wore tow linen pants held up by suspenders (often made of tow strings), and having at each side pockets that reached down to about the wearer's knees.
Then I took one o' his suspenders and tied him hard and fast.
In France some attention had been given to the material, and the rubber bottles of the Indians had been cut into narrow threads which were woven into strips of cloth to form suspenders and garters.
The man has it in hissuspenders and his pipe stem, the woman in her garters and dress shields, and the baby in its teething ring and rattle.
Engage the snap hook on the pack suspenders in the lower suspension rings.
Adjust the pack suspenders so that the top of the haversack is on a level with the top of the shoulders.
These suspenders were attached at their ends to the grape, but where the egg was laid in the soft part of the fruit the suspenders were spread out at the surface; thus the larva would emerge clean from the shell.
The egg had a pair of curious suspenders near the end where the mouth of the larva would develop.
Some of these trusses cost little more to make than a pair of good suspenders or garters.
Might just as well wear your suspenders or garters over your rupture as some of the trusses and devices with which this country is overrun.
So, like suspenders or garters, they absorb perspiration; that rots them so they soon give out.
Sidenote: Your Suspenders Would Do As Much Good As Some Trusses] A rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so apt to do harm.
For her phoenix husband, she renews the wax upon his razor strap, she substitutes new suspenders for old ones.
The ideas of a man who has taken his boots and his suspenders off, are no longer those of a man who is still sporting these two tyrants of the mind.
In the narrow Maltese lace of Plate 98 we have in No.
Could I throw up a window or fasten back a blind in that house, without sacrificing my suspenders and waistband button?
Banks loosened the pinch of the elastic suspenders over and under the shoulder.
The arm was stiff, owing largely to the grip of the elastic suspenders and the bandages; but that was only to be expected.
No one has ever been able to tell me what becomes of the suspenders of Jewtown.
I only know that more suspenders are hawked about the Pig-market every day than would supply the whole of New York for a year, were they all bought and turned to use.
Millions of suspenders thus perambulate Jewtown all day on a sort of dress parade.
Sanford enthusiastically, patting his host's back with his fat hands over the spot where the suspenders crossed.
Do as I tell ye," he said, stripping off his suspenders and tugging at his blue flannel shirt.
Lonny Bowles, a big derrickman from Noank quarries, in a red shirt, discolored on the back with a pink Y where his suspenders had crossed, now moved nearer and joined in the discussion.
He grabbed about a double handful of the cloth of pa's clothes right below where his suspenders button on and held on, and shook pa real hard, but the cloth was tough and didn't tear.
But you'd a dide to see him come out of that old lady's room with his coat and vest on his arm, and his suspenders hanging down, looking scart.
I looked around the corner and could see he just had on his shirt and pants, and his suspenders were hanging down, and his bald head shone like a calcium light just before it explodes.
He said that any man who said to him that plug hats and suspenders had done more for mankind than the Bible and religion he would not talk to.
The purpose of this was plain: when his suspenders chafed him he might, by shifting the straps to different buttons, shift the strain on his shoulders.
His bathrobe still hung on a peg; his other pair of suspenders dangled over the footboard; and his shaving brush, with dried lather on it, was on the floor.
Annixter was without coat, vest or collar, his blue silk suspendershung in loops over either hip, his hair was disordered, the crown lock stiffer than ever.
Come on, come on," shouted Annixter, dashing stablewards, his suspenders flying.
Put rubber boots on your hands, or work through silk petticoat; or throw loop of rubber suspenders or of dry rope around him to pull him off wire, or pry him along with dry stick.
If arm or leg, tie rubber tubing or rubber suspenders tight about limb between wound and heart, or tie strap or rope over handkerchief or folded shirt wrapped about limb.
No coaxing or lengthening of the suspenders or pulling at the sleeves could make Alfred look other than ridiculous.
The suspenders may consist of any number of pits from six to twenty-four, according to the size of the tannery.
Naturally, it is easier, and quite within the bounds of practicability, to raise the hides from suspenders by mechanical power, as it would not be difficult to fix a stout cross-beam to the pulley from which the hides are suspended.
The man with the Sampson suspenders was looking rather contemptuously at his flock of sheep.
We intend to point out to him that if he finds a gentleman with two buttons on either hip to which suspenders are attached, he may safely set him down as a conservative.
He was chewing a straw, and he wore a pair of suspenders called Sampson.
Dink savagely, making the grand toilet, which consisted in putting on a high collar, exchanging his belt for a pair of suspenders and donning a pair of patent-leathers.
At four o'clock this very afternoon Turkey Reiter will proceed to cash a check and settle for a fountain pen, a pair of suspenders and a safety razor I sold him.
The common people themselves were angry, because to have to buy suspenders would simply be an addition to the cost of living, and they hadn't any money to spare.
The best people were angry, because up to that time the wearing of suspenders had been regarded as a sign of noble birth, and if everybody, including the common people, were to have them they would cease to be so.
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