He telegraphed to me that a conspiracy was afloat to enact a kind of petticoat government.

One of them was a negro, naked to the waist, and the other was a white man in his shirt-sleeves, wearing petticoat breeches, a Monterey cap upon his head, a red bandanna handkerchief around his neck, and gold ear-rings in his ears.

After EVE had finished up that little apple job, she went into the petticoat business, andhence all our tears.

So it was when girls began to wield the knife that the men workers first began to fear the competition of the "petticoat butchers."

A bridge communicates with the largest, on which "petticoat daffodils" grow, and the couples that may occasionally be seen going over there doubtless do so to gather these.

"Here they come," cried another"the gallant 42nd; look at the petticoat-devils, how they foot it along!

A black petticoat envelopes the form from the waist, and over that is thrown a singular veil, gathered into a hood, and kept out with a piece of whalebone.

Yet Miss Wimple and Madeline were almost exactly "of a size," by any measurement, and Miss Wimple's clothes were a sweet fit for Madeline; the petticoat experiment had discovered that.

And now the final rush came, as the steamer made fast alongside the outermost of the boats already lying at the pier, across the decks of which our heterogeneous crowd began to make its way with as little scrambling as possible, on account of the petticoat-hoops, which are capital monitors in a turmoil.

France was delighted that at last her King had emancipated himself from petticoat influence, but the delight was short-lived, for before he had been many days in camp the Duchesse made her stately appearance, and saws and hammers were at work making a covered way between the house assigned to her and that occupied by the King.

Four months later, at Falkirk, a portion of another English army was thrown into a panic by the sight of "the wild petticoat-men," and made capital time in getting out of their way.

Their whalebone petticoats outdo ours by several yards circumference, and cover some acres of ground.

The insulators are made either of glass or porcelain, and are of a peculiar form known as triple petticoat pattern.

But Miss Wimple was in a peculiarly provoking predicament, and for such there is ever a malignant star;callers and customers dropped in, one after another, all day, as they had rarely come before,as though, indeed, her most spiteful enemy had got wind of the petticoat affair, and sent them to plague her.

Petticoat-tails Cakes of triangular shapes "

"To think that it should be such a stripling," he says, looking with a half-pensive smile at the straight young trunk, "hardly out of the petticoat age, and wehe and Isuch a couple of old wrecks!