But suddenly he threw back the folds of it and showed the green tights underneath.
His muscles stood out in great knots under the suit of green tights which he wore.
I entered the club, clad in a long, heavy ulster, reaching from my shoulders to the ground, so that the tights were not visible.
He couldn't have afforded to dress in solid silver-tinsel tights if he had been otherwise.
She too was in tights throughout, and like him she walked with a calm and powerful movement, but she seemed petty beside him.
It should be done with pale blue silk tights against a cherry velvet drop, or else in deep ultramarine on an old gold background.
They go in long trains to a sham court--simpering in tights and bags, with swords between their legs.
The tamer in histights and tinsel has grown used to his tiger, to his emotions, to his hourly danger.
The man, the nobler, braver creature, is arrayed in a wretched flimsy finery of tights and spangles, parading his physical weakness and inferiority in the toggery of a mountebank.
He looked in the dressing room mirror not to inspect the tights but to examine his face and see if it needed shaving.
He punched the same few holes in its tape that he put there every day, stood in the right place, and in due course emerged with his long, rawboned frame covered by magenta tights having an excessively baggy seat.
Mavis asked a little boy in tights and a spangled cap.
They are all as foreign and native and picturesque as they can be, the women with big silver plates over their stomachs and the men in sheepskin and tights and the soldiers are grand.
The occurrence of stick-tights is generally due to lack of moisture and thrifty growth, although some trees may be weak from some other cause and therefore deficient in sap-flow, which manifests itself in that way.
Yes, the fairy in the pretty pinktights and spangled muslin is getting into the brilliant revolving chariot of the realms of bliss.
You wear the tights and silken hose of last evening's banquet.
But Jane was faithful to her love of the lady in pink tights and watched her with open eyes and open mouth, as she stood jauntily upright upon a barebacked horse and sprang gracefully through paper-covered hoops.
I am sure she is the lady who wears the pink tights and does such wonders on horseback,” she confided to Christopher.
Do you suppose the lady in the pink tights will be in the percession?
If silk tights are deemed too extravagant, silk lisle or lisle tights, or boys' long balbriggan, lisle, or gauze merino drawers are a good substitute.
Either equestrian tightsor riding breeches are worn, and nowadays most women prefer the latter.
Silk shirts and full silk tights are best for riding, but, if full tights are not worn, socks should be worn in place of stockings, as the latter wrinkle under the right knee and chafe.
You attempted to push him over the line by rigging him out in a Mephistopheles costume and sending him off to a fancy-dress ball, your view being that scarlet tights would embolden him.
He dresses you up in scarlet tights and one of the foulest false beards of my experience, and sends you off to fancy-dress balls.
Suddenly appears a person clad in flesh tights and a barrel, carrying a label announcing himself as The Common People.
When tightswere used they were completely concealed by a one-piece, knee-length bathing dress.
For her fancy diving exhibitions she wore sleeveless one-piece knitted swimming tights that covered her from neck to toe--a costume she had probably adopted in England.
In 1918 Annette Kellerman recommended that serious swimmers wear close-fitting swimming tights or the two-piece suits commonly worn by men.
The use of the more streamlined bathing tights was another step toward more functional bathing costume.
Bathing tights differed from the knickerbockers in that they were hemmed rather than gathered on an elastic band at the lower edge and that they were not attached to the waist.
During this same period, the mid-1890s, knitted, cotton tights were sometimes worn in place of knickerbockers.
Roses and champagne and smart frocks, and the owner of Monte Carlo, and the church--all joining in the launching of the racing boat of a charming sportswoman in swimming tights and top boots!
She was blessed with a superb form and an attractive face; she fairly reveled in parts where she could wear tights and display her shapely form, and it must be frankly confessed that "the folks" loved to see her in that kind of attire.
Denin had been shining refulgently since the opening of the season, and Walters, although in the city, had not appeared, but now she burst again into public view resplendent in green tights and spangles.
She used secretly to take out old photographs of herself as a slim young thing in tights with one toe for support and the other resting on one knee.
But Bottger, whose ballet-tights and tulle skirt were once the horror of all good people--Bottger was disgusted with the dances of Miss Silsby, and said so.
Why, nobody wears anything but tights under a ball gown nowadays.
She wore silver slippers and black silk tights and had quite dispensed with petticoats.
Suffice it to say, that when the spasms were ended, and he had finally become a "cold corpus," his black tights were very dirty and had holes in the knees.
To increase their resemblance to statues, and to produce as far as possible the illusion of nudes in marble, these young models wear tights whitened with flour.
Walter appears in black tights spangled with silver, classic as an Antinoues, nervous as a stag.
The boys came crowding up to the cab as it stood by the Gray Friars gates, where they were entering, and admired the chestnut horse, and the tights and livery and gravity of Stoopid, the tiger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: costume; disguise; dungarees; masquerade; motley; outfit; pants; reserved; rig; sock
