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  • Johnnie Walker scotch has a man with riding breeches and a top hat, which represents the 'good life.'†   (source)
  • Luckily, you're not the one who's breech.†   (source)
  • My sleeve is torn and my breeches are unaccountably damp, but nothing was harmed save my dignity.†   (source)
  • They passed portrait after portrait, and the painted figures raced alongside them, wizards and witches in ruffs and breeches, in armor and cloaks, cramming themselves into each others' canvases, screaming news from other parts of the castle.†   (source)
  • This is the most scandalous a breech of aeronautical law I've ever encountered.†   (source)
  • Grace's helpfulness secured her position: on Christmas Day that year-1922—Leon dressed in top hat and riding breeches, walked through the snow to the bungalow with a green envelope from his father.†   (source)
  • He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin, A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin, They fitted with never a wrinkle, his boots were up to the thigh.†   (source)
  • Inside was a frilly white shirt, a pair of breeches, and a long wool coat with epaulets.†   (source)
  • The other men were dressed more simply-in breeches and stained white shirts.†   (source)
  • When he emerged, dripping, into the lighted room, he found a towel, a fine linen shirt, and a pair of breeches.†   (source)
  • It may have been the distorting properties of her anger, or the muck of this alien city, but when she imagined the soldiers' mouths sewn shut, their coats and breeches tore at the seams instead.†   (source)
  • They wore high boots, ski boots, ski trousers, breeches, headscarves, and they carried bundles, rucksacks and walking sticks.†   (source)
  • He wore a red silk waistcoat under a snuff-colored coat with silver buttons, a starched linen shirt, and black breeches.†   (source)
  • If I can't quite get the hang of poverty-chastity-and-obedience, I can learn instead about vermifuges, breech deliveries, arrow wounds, gangrene, and elephantiasis.†   (source)
  • It consisted of white hose, red knee-breeches, and a yellow jacket with padded shoulders.†   (source)
  • It was a good wagonload: two hogsheads of rum, a half dozen big sacks of salt, a couple of barrels of molasses; a large chest of tea, a sack of coffee beans, a dozen brass kettles and some tin pots; a chest of breeches and some brass buckles; some drills, knives, files, axes and spades; and small boxes of pepper, allspice, cinnamon, and white powdered sugar.†   (source)
  • But the younger had been killed in a training accident, blown to pieces by a faulty breech mechanism in a brand-new T-55 tank in 1959.†   (source)
  • He thought I was some kind of cross between Billy the Kid and Buffalo Bill, quick on the draw and Dang mah breeches!†   (source)
  • Among those theatrical creatures, wearing riding breeches and leggings, a pith helmet and steel-rimmed glasses, with topaz eyes and the skin of a thin rooster, there arrived in Macondo on one of so many Wednesdays the chubby and smiling Mr. Herbert, who ate at the house.†   (source)
  • According to his father, Larry, Adam was ready to be born three minutes after his twin sister, Manda, when "the doctor discovered he was breech.†   (source)
  • Finally, my hands found the floor and I shoved my way through, a breech birth, falling onto the dark green mat.†   (source)
  • Edna delivering a breech birth in her hospital (Nicholas D. Kristof) The American backers of the hospital have been venturing out to Somaliland to see what they have wrought.†   (source)
  • Now it's not a breech baby.†   (source)
  • Was a breech baby, and the midwife broke her foot when she was birthed and it never came back right.†   (source)
  • I spent flying down the stair rails at home, never noticing the gradual shredding of my breeches.†   (source)
  • He couldn't stand by and watch a horse colic or a cow labor with a breech calf even though it meant personal ruin.†   (source)
  • David Relph, a "saucy fellow," was wearing a white coat, jacket and breeches, and ruffled shirt when last seen.†   (source)
  • It isn't until Charlemagne came to rule in 800 that we have any sort of detailed description of wardrobe at the time, which included cross-gartered trousers that came to be known as braies, or breeches, that garment so well beloved by historical romance authors around the world.†   (source)
  • Satisfied, he took a bite and Chewed thoughtfully while the malakhim laid out a pair of dark breeches and a shirt.†   (source)
  • Frodo took it from his breeches-pocket, where it was clasped to a chain that hung from his belt.†   (source)
  • I stared at my father's breeches and noted that they smelled unclean.†   (source)
  • At your age a rod to your breech were fitter than a sword in your fist, ha!†   (source)
  • He would scrub the breech and trigger assembly and muzzle and magazines, and later, next time, he would not be afraid to use it.†   (source)
  • They smell of grubby flesh, of scalp, but also of leather, from the knee patches on their breeches, and wool, from the breeches themselves, which come down only to below the knee, and lace up there like football pants.†   (source)
  • He went on, reciting Henry the Fifth aloud: "Once more into the breech..."†   (source)
  • I was alarmed but not nervous, as I was a doctor of long experience, having turned many a breech fetus and safely delivered a near-equal number.†   (source)
  • But this was a breech birth.†   (source)
  • Then he turned, his green eye sweeping across the row of monks seated between himself and the doorway, and he looked upon Yama, who wore breeches, boots, shirt, sash, cloak and gloves all of red, and about whose head was twisted a turban the color of blood.†   (source)
  • Then there in the doorway with a fiddle In her hand stood Blennerhassett's wife, wearing breeches, come to fetch him home.†   (source)
  • Garbed in his familiar blue tailed coat with brass buttons, and a buff waistcoat and breeches, he deliberately pauseda moment as he gazed about at the greatest assemblage of Senators ever to gather in that chamber—Clay, Benton, Houston, Jefferson Davis, Hale, Bell, Cass, Seward, Chase, Stephen A. Douglas and others.†   (source)
  • She sat in the boat's prow, one hand resting on the side lip, the other on the lap of her dark blue breeches, and a line of sunburnt soft neck showing where her blouse opened like a white flower.†   (source)
  • The black, worn breeches are just as much too short; they reach barely halfway down his calf.   (source)
    breeches = pants
  • But in slapping all his pockets and feeling all round himself for matches his hand came on the hilt of his little sword — the little dagger that he got from the trolls, and that he had quite forgotten; nor do the goblins seem to have noticed it, as he wore it inside his breeches.   (source)
  • They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in these great drainpipes.   (source)
  • It was a wonderful picture: Himmelstoss on the ground; Haie bending over him with a fiendish grin and his mouth open with bloodlust, Himmelstoss's head on his knees; then the convulsed striped drawers, the knock knees, executing at every blow most original movements in the lowered breeches, and towering over them like a woodcutter the indefatigable Tjaden.   (source)
  • If only he could be wearing a breechcloth instead of tight English breeches!†   (source)
  • On the desk stands a photograph of a boy in breeches on a beach at dusk.†   (source)
  • And, thanks be, new boots for him and a woolen jacket and breeches.†   (source)
  • Goldbuttons dropped his cloak on the floor and ran up the stairs as if his breeches were on fire.†   (source)
  • Now his coat was properly buttoned and his breeches tucked into his boots.†   (source)
  • It hung over a pair of working man's breeches that were cut off below his knee.†   (source)
  • I've got to hem these breeches before the light fades.†   (source)
  • He got hold of his belt and managed to get his breeches back on.†   (source)
  • Others wore chain mail shirts, breeches, and combat boots.†   (source)
  • He wore high leather boots, leather breeches, and a pirate-style shirt.†   (source)
  • Blood had soaked his breeches to the knee and dried into a hard brown crust.†   (source)
  • He staggered into the light, wearing nothing but his breeches, and looked round in confusion.†   (source)
  • Blood oozed from the wound, soaking the top of his breeches.†   (source)
  • Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool.†   (source)
  • Brienne let the bread fall from her hands and wiped the crumbs off on her breeches.†   (source)
  • Wine splashed across his boots and breeches, a dark red tide.†   (source)
  • He had a green coat, thick leather breeches, slim legs, lost some of his fore teeth.†   (source)
  • Ser Osney's ardor was wilting in his breeches.†   (source)
  • Elinor was slight enough to fit into the breeches and jerkin that the elder Wickford boy had worn.†   (source)
  • The woman stepped close and pressed a hand to the front of his breeches.†   (source)
  • It looks rather sad and small, hanging from your breeches like that.†   (source)
  • "You as well," Ygritte said as she yanked down her sheepskin breeches.†   (source)
  • The singer's boots were supple blue calfskin, his breeches fine blue wool.†   (source)
  • "You are putting those breeches on backwards, my lord," he told Bracken.†   (source)
  • She wore lambskin breeches soft with long use, and a sleeveless jerkin armored in bronze scales.†   (source)
  • The lesson is, men who wear white breeches need to keep them tightly laced.†   (source)
  • Bran used the bars to move himself to the bed, and Hodor pulled off his boots and breeches.†   (source)
  • Jonos had finally gotten his breeches turned the right way round and was lacing them up the front.†   (source)
  • He undid his breeches and climbed up and pushed her bare white legs apart.†   (source)
  • Jaime laced up his breeches and did as she commanded.†   (source)
  • His boots were black, his breeches blue.†   (source)
  • He wiped his bloody fingers on his breeches.†   (source)
  • She unlaced my breeches, he thought, outraged, and she said ...oh, gods, and I said ...He groaned.†   (source)
  • Her cloak, tunic, breeches, smallclothes, all of it.†   (source)
  • The Red Fork filled his boots and soaked through the ragged breeches.†   (source)
  • Afterward he laced up his black wool breeches and followed the smells.†   (source)
  • Next time we meet I'll peek beneath his breeches to be sure.†   (source)
  • Tyene's fingers the moment she drew him from his breeches.†   (source)
  • One-handed, she undid the lacing of his breeches, then grinned and stepped lightly away from him.†   (source)
  • There was a wet spot on the front of his breeches, but in the darkness it ought to go unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Give me a crossbow and pull down your breeches, and I'll show you.†   (source)
  • She could feel him stiffening through his breeches.†   (source)
  • The gaoler was dead drunk in a puddle of wine, with his breeches down around his ankles.†   (source)
  • She pushed up his tunic and began to fumble with the laces of his breeches.†   (source)
  • I'd say Drennan was pulling down his breeches to stick it in the woman when she stuck it in him.†   (source)
  • Pull them breeches down, give us a look.†   (source)
  • A crown was worth a little mud and horseshit on his breeches, he supposed.†   (source)
  • He grinned at Jon, wiping his fingers clean on his breeches.†   (source)
  • If so, unlace those breeches and show me.†   (source)
  • Giggling, she put her hand between his thighs and squeezed him through his breeches.†   (source)
  • The sellsword wore his mail and wolfskin cloak, soft leather gloves, dark woolen breeches.†   (source)
  • Ygritte made to grab the front of his breeches.†   (source)
  • Daario found his breeches and pulled them on.†   (source)
  • He waddled off the road, undid his breeches, and relieved himself into a tangle of thorns.†   (source)
  • One-handed, he could not so much as unlace his breeches.†   (source)
  • The dwarf was so stuffed that he had to undo his belt and the topmost laces on his breeches.†   (source)
  • Clothes as well: cloaks, breeches, boots, tunics, good leather gloves.†   (source)
  • Bracken retrieved his breeches from the floor and shook them out.†   (source)
  • There were long hairy breeches of some unclean beast-fell, and a tunic of dirty leather.†   (source)
  • "He stands very tall," said the demon, "and he wears black breeches and boots.†   (source)
  • Rejuvenated, he stripped out of his breeches and tunic and outfitted himself in the clothes he had worn to Ajihad's funeral.†   (source)
  • Breech.†   (source)
  • It finally slid out of the cart and he snatched it up and opened it and took out the shells and reloaded the pistol and breeched it shut and put the rest of the loads in his pocket.†   (source)
  • His own tunic and breeches were sadly travel-worn from their weeks exposed to the rain and sun since Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • He had put on his finest clothes to come to court, but his breeches were patched, his cloak travel-stained and dusty.†   (source)
  • We're breeched!†   (source)
  • All four of us just kept banging away, cutting 'em down, watching them fall, slamming a new magazine into the breech, somehow holding them at bay.†   (source)
  • The boy wore gray breeches patched at the knees and thighs, a frock coat much too big for him, the tail of which reached down practically to his heels, and cracked leather boots with no laces.†   (source)
  • Still on his back, the sergeant major takes the pistol in both hands and opens and closes the breech.†   (source)
  • Her father had once said of Walder Frey that he was the only lord in the Seven Kingdoms who could field an army out of his breeches.†   (source)
  • He thrust his legs into the shapeless breeches and gathered the top about his waist with a bit of rope.†   (source)
  • He leveled the weapon, got a hold of another magazine, shoved it into the breech, and opened fire again, blood pumping out of his chest.†   (source)
  • Angela dipped her hand into a leather purse at her belt and passed a child's tunic and breeches back to Solembum, along with the small black dagger he fought with.†   (source)
  • He took the far left, slammed a new magazine into the breech, and started fighting, never missed a beat, hammering away at our most vulnerable point of enemy attack.†   (source)
  • He was clad in black from head to heel; high leather riding boots, roughspun breeches and tunic, sleeveless leather jerkin, and heavy wool cloak.†   (source)
  • Roran and Uthar stripped to their breeches, tied the rope and clubs around their waists-Roran left his hammer behind-and then ran farther down the wharf, out of the sentries' sight, where they lowered themselves into the frigid water.†   (source)
  • He spread a blanket out on the floor and hacked it with his axe and his knife, using his worn-out breeches as a pattern.†   (source)
  • But his breeches were threadbare.†   (source)
  • I rammed another magazine into the breech of my miraculous rifle and somehow crawled over this little hill, through the hail of bullets, right into the side of the mountain.†   (source)
  • The Greatjon says that won't matter if we catch him with his breeches down, but it seems to me that a man who has fought as many battles as Tywin Lannister won't be so easily surprised.†   (source)
  • The boy wore a floppy red hat, his shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbow, the blue breeches of a sailor, and a pair of dusty boots.†   (source)
  • Four wore the coats, breeches, powdered wigs, and hats of merchants; one had papers tucked under his arm.†   (source)
  • Lockton wore a cardinal red satin waistcoat, black satin coat and breeches, and shoes with silver buckles.†   (source)
  • The mayor had on a fine wig, properly powdered and pulled back, with a curl at the end of his queue, a sable coat and matching breeches, a maroon waistcoat, and a white silk cravat tied loosely around his neck, atop his shirt.†   (source)
  • Like Max, each wore a hauberk of black mail beneath a dark gray tunic along with black boots and breeches.†   (source)
  • IN LONDON, Jefferson resumed his shopping spree, buying, among other things, another microscope and a pair of satin "Florentine" breeches.†   (source)
  • Beneath her roughspun brown breeches were calves like cords of wood, and the long muscles of her arms stretched and tightened with each stroke of the oars.†   (source)
  • With his black leather breeches and jerkin, his hunting knife, and his bow and quiver, he might have been Robin Hood's evil, better-looking brother.†   (source)
  • One day, as the taking-in bell rang, Albert, beating coal dust from his breeches, said, "Wait a minute, Jean Louise."†   (source)
  • The dining room table was covered with newspapers, cleaning rods, a double-ended breech-brush, used patches, and rags stained with barrel oil, solvents, and gunpowder.†   (source)
  • The first thing everyone noticed was the spectacular cowboy garb: ten-gallon spanking-white cowboy hats blocked porkpie style, weighty signet rings, smoked eyeglasses, fringed leather jackets, ornate breeches, gabardine shirts tailored to his powerful shoulders and dyed in a confusion of color, and hand-tooled cowboy boots embossed with animal images in real silver.†   (source)
  • Belching, the creature muttered something unintelligible and rolled over to scratch his patched and lumpy breeches.†   (source)
  • Bilbo put it on him, and fastened Sting upon the glittering belt; and then Frodo put over the top his old weather-stained breeches, tunic, and jacket.†   (source)
  • The hair on his torso was matted with gore from top to bottom, while streaks of blood covered his arms and stained the upper part of his breeches.†   (source)
  • Whenever he looked at the Vice President presiding in his chair, wrote Maclay, "I cannot help thinking of a monkey just put into breeches."†   (source)
  • I thought then to attempt a breech delivery, but here, too, I seemed to forget the delicate procedures.†   (source)
  • All my early images of him are clear and sharp and Technicolor his baggy-legged shorts, his striped T-shirt, his raggedy hair bleached by the sun, his winter breeches and leather helmet.†   (source)
  • Pressing the attack, Murtagh struck at Eragon's wrist and then, when Eragon dashed aside Zar'roc, thrust underneath Eragon's shield and stabbed through the fringe of his mail hauberk and his tunic and the waist of his breeches and into his left hip.†   (source)
  • The flies began to torment them, and the air was full of clouds of tiny midges that crept up their sleeves and breeches and into their hair.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, the hook-nosed magician still stood in the same place, though the explosion had robbed him of his outer clothes, leaving him wearing nothing but his breeches.†   (source)
  • I did not have Sam's old breeches and jerkin, which would have been huge on me in any case, for they had been destroyed in his accident.†   (source)
  • Colonel John Glover's tough Massachusetts fishermen wore the blue jackets of sailors, white shirts, white breeches and caps, while their short, stocky, red-haired commander had silver lace trim on his blue broadcloth coat and carried a brace of silver pistols.†   (source)
  • A "genteel carriage" would be required, as well as a coachman, and Adams was particular that the livery be in the Paris mode: deep blue coat and breeches, scarlet cape and waistcoats.†   (source)
  • Though somewhat shorter than Adams—about five feet seven—he was attractively slender, handsome, with clear blue eyes and sandy red hair, and dressed so as never to be lost in a crowd, in perfectly tailored coats, waistcoats, and breeches in a rainbow of colors.†   (source)
  • He flung his circlet, belt, and rings on the grass, and looked round helplessly, as if he expected to find his cloak, jacket, and breeches, and other hobbit-garments lying somewhere to hand.†   (source)
  • But day by day I saw him come and go in the same earth-crusted breeches, and I wondered that even he could be so uncaring.†   (source)
  • Delaware, the smallest colony, had sent the largest battalion in the army, "the Delaware Blues," a force of 800 turned out in handsome red-trimmed blue coats, white waistcoats, buckskin breeches, white woolen stockings, and carrying fine, "lately imported" English muskets.†   (source)
  • But the girl had seen him, and she let out a wail, at which the man sprawled atop her jumped up, plucking at his breeches with one hand and trying to force his hare yard backinside the cloth with the other.†   (source)
  • I can only think that someone found me in the shallows, stripped me of my armor, boots, and breeches, and pushed me back out into the deeper water.†   (source)
  • "A bear there was, a bear, a bear, all black and brown, and covered with hair," he sang, his voice as scratchy as a pair of woolen breeches.†   (source)
  • The bay filled his boots and soaked his breeches as Aeron poured a stream of salt water down upon his brow.†   (source)
  • In the heavy ironbound chest at the foot of Bran's bed the maester found smallclothes, breeches, and tunic.†   (source)
  • She finished her business, hiked up her breeches, and returned to the road to find Nimble Dick wiping flour off his fingers.†   (source)
  • As much as he could, Bran preferred to dress himself, but there were some tasks—pulling on breeches, lacing his boots—that vexed him.†   (source)
  • Qyburn returned with roughspun smallclothes, clean black woolen breeches, a loose green tunic, and a leather jerkin that laced up the front.†   (source)
  • He could taste the wine on her lips, and feel her small firm breasts pressed against him as her fingers moved to the lacings of his breeches.†   (source)
  • I said the words, he thought, but her hands were tugging at his blacks, pulling at the laces of his breeches.†   (source)
  • Jon pushed back his bloody breeches to get a better grip, grimaced, and slowly drew the shaft through his leg.†   (source)
  • They're not my brothers, Arya thought as she bent to yank up her breeches, but she knew better than to say so.†   (source)
  • The speaker was a slim, slight, comely youth, clad in doeskin breeches and a snug green brigandine with iron studs.†   (source)
  • Gretchel and Maddy were helping Robert Arryn squirm into his breeches when Sansa stepped into his bedchamber.†   (source)
  • Irri helped her slip from her court clothes and into more comfortable garb; baggy woolen breeches, a loose felted tunic, a painted Dothraki vest.†   (source)
  • Esgred brushed the front of his breeches once more, and smiled as a finger traced the iron outline of his manhood.†   (source)
  • When she was sure there was no one near, she skinned down her breeches and squatted to do her business.†   (source)
  • He was a small fellow, garbed in ragged green breeches and a frayed tunic of a lighter shade of green, with brown leather patches covering the holes.†   (source)
  • Then there was the Girl General, who rode about on a white horse with a red mane and commanded a hundred strapping slave soldiers that she had bred and trained herself, all of them young, lean, rippling with muscle, and naked but for breech-clouts, yellow cloaks, and long bronze shields with erotic inlays.†   (source)
  • Did my old brothers think they'd catch me with my breeches down if they attacked while we were talking?†   (source)
  • In place of a gown, she wore men's breeches and a calf-length linen tunic, cinched at the waist with a belt of copper suns.†   (source)
  • They had found men's garb for her along the way; a tunic here, a mantle there, a pair of breeches and a cowled cloak, even an old iron breastplate.†   (source)
  • Arya was given servant's garb: a tunic of undyed wool, baggy breeches, linen smallclothes, cloth slippers for her feet.†   (source)
  • Unlace your breeches and pull 'em down.†   (source)
  • Cursing, Theon found his tunic and breeches on the floor where he had dropped them in his haste to get at Kyra.†   (source)
  • The snow clung to their boots and breeches, and the wind rattled the pines and made their cloaks snap and swirl.†   (source)
  • She made her way to his side, lean and lithe in high boots of salt-stained leather, green woolen breeches, and brown quilted tunic, a sleeveless leather jerkin half-unlaced.†   (source)
  • No man would ever call Cotter Pyke handsome, though the body under his studded brigantine and roughspun breeches was lean and hard and wiry strong.†   (source)
  • Though he was plainly dressed, in grey wool doublet and black breeches, his speech marked him as highborn.†   (source)
  • His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp.†   (source)
  • Someone had bathed him and dressed him in a pair of sky-blue breeches and a loose-fitting white tunic with puffed sleeves, belted with a silvery sash that had been a gift from Lady Lysa.†   (source)
  • A ragged tunic concealed the half-healed scars on his back, but his hoots were scattered amidst the rushes, and his breeches tangled about his feet.†   (source)
  • Otherwise his dress was plain: studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun.†   (source)
  • Petyr welcomed his visitors in a black velvet doublet with grey sleeves that matched his woolen breeches and lent a certain darkness to his grey-green eyes.†   (source)
  • His breeches were similarly split; the right leg was solid green, the left leg striped in red and white.†   (source)
  • He had slept in his breeches and tunic and smallclothes, for the added warmth, so he had only to pull on his boots and don leather and mail and cloak.†   (source)
  • The king wore lambswool breeches and a quilted doublet, yet somehow he looked as stiff and uncomfortable as if he had been clad in plate and mail.†   (source)
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