Do we say breeches or britches

breeches 715 occurrences

As for my breeches, which were only linen, and open-kneed, I swam on board in them and my stockings.

Said the saint again, "I have no great riches, Yet take this tunic, take these breeches, My shirt and my vest, take everything, And give due thanks to Jesus the King.

Going into Breeches.

"Going into Breeches," 419, 517.

He at one time thought of closing his innovations on his wardrobe, however, with a change of his nether garment; as after a great deal of study he could only make out the resemblance between himself and the obnoxious gamekeeper to consist in the leathern breeches.

He looked askance at our English breeches and saddles.

They had jeered at his riding-breeches, at his bob-tailed cob, at his English accent, and Thorpe had suffered them gladly.

He rode a heavier horse than Adonis; and he had made a change in his dress; in place of the riding-suit, which had smacked of London and Hyde Park, he wore a rough but light coat, thick cord breeches, and brown leather gaiters.

This first one, who had just dismounted from his bay polo-pony, was Mortimer, of the Intelligencetall, straight, and hawk-faced, with khaki tunic and riding-breeches, drab putties, a scarlet cummerbund, and a skin tanned to the red of a Scotch fir by sun and wind, and mottled by the mosquito and the sand-fly.

His style was homely, and in his easier periods he had a knack of putting his left hand into his breeches pocket, and talking in a semi-conversational Lancashire dialect style.

Sometimes he leaned over the pew door, and beat time with one foot whilst talking; at other periods he would stand back a little, push his right arm up to the elbow in his breeches pocket, and scratch his leg quietly; then he would turn half round, and look up; then make to the pew door again; then leave it, and so on to the finish.

They likewise have breeches made of skins.

The people brought us from the court ram-skin coats, and breeches of the same, with shoes, which my companion and interpreter accepted, but I thought the fur garment which I brought from Baatu was sufficient for me.

They make breeches and shoes of the skins of wild beasts, and use no other garments.

He doth itch towards a poet, and greases his breeches extremely with feeding without a napkin.

He loves his friend as a counsellor at law loves the velvet breeches he was first made barrister in, he will be sure to wear him threadbare ere

The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service; men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here and traffic for news.

Now the biped carries a box of phosphorus in his leather-breeches; and in the dead of night the half-illuminated beast steals his magic potion into a cleft in a barn, and half a country is grinning with new fires.

my son John Went to bed with his breeches on; One shoe off and the other shoe on, Diddle, diddle, etc. (Da Capo.)

It became the fashion of young men to dress themselves in blue coats and yellow breeches in imitation of the hero, and many of them were moved to follow Werther's example as the simplest way of settling their love affairs.

But the boy turned both vest and breeches pockets inside out, so they should see that he owned nothing.

She loved the country, simply lived in riding breeches and rode like a mana sight better than most menand drove a car like a young devil.

She was equally at home in a ballgownthough she was not yet outor in a pair of khaki riding breeches and an olive drab shirt.

Where, was explained a moment later by the emergence of Sylvia Stannard in her conventional farm costume of shirt and breeches with a two-gallon jug in each hand.

It came gradually nearer, and at last Buzzby, in the character of Ben Bolt, swaggered up to the foot-lights with his hands in his breeches pockets.

britches 12 occurrences

and then you say, quick as you can, 'Cat-fur to make kitten britches of,'

Mo'over, dey say he had on check' britches an' a blue coat.

I wore a shirt dress and a britches leg cap on my head and ears.

It's pretty you'd look clearing out to-morrow and leaving another battalion to come in to take over your new trench and your new sap and your German Gineral and the gold in his britches pocket together."

So he taken mah britches down dat day.

So when he got through wid me and put mah britches back on me ah went on tuh de fiel and went tuh pickin cotton.

And you could weave cloth and make all yo' own britches, too.

THOMPSON, HAROLD W. Body, boots and britches.

THOMPSON, MARIAN. Body, boots and britches.

THOMPSON, HAROLD W. Body, boots and britches.

THOMPSON, MARIAN. Body, boots and britches.

When dey sont me to town I put on britches an' stuffed de tail o' my slip in 'em

Do we say   breeches   or  britches