For brandishing the rod, she doth begin To loose the brogues, the stripling's late delight!

Brogues, breeches.

He did it slowlyas slowly as he could, and, as he came back, she lifted her face with sudden energy, and exclaimed: "Oh, Père Jerome, de law is brogue!

He had an unblushing candour about his own worldly ambition, with a tremendous brogue; and prided himself on exaggerating deliberately both of these excellences.

With the rich brogue of Ireland rolling from his tongue, he avowed himself an American.

He's claws they tell me, though he kapes them so well covered in his fine brogues; divil burn me, but I'd grapple him by the toes.

He was a square-jawed, severe, heavily built person, with a long relentless upper lip, cheeks ruddy from the open air; engaged in the contracting business; and he had a brogue that would have charmed a mavis off a tree.

Brown brogue shoes.'

He wore a pair of brogues,Tartan hose which came up only near to his knees, and left them bare,a purple camblet kilt,a black waistcoat,a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord,a yellowish bushy wig,a large blue bonnet with a gold thread button.

I saw brogues very well tanned; and every man can make them.

'In Sky I first observed the use of brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that, though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.'

The Johnstons are a clan distinguished in Scottish border history, and as brave as any Highland clan that ever wore brogues; but they lay entirely out of Lochbuy's knowledgenor was he thinking of them.

He was not, however, much to look at, with his coarse frieze coat with its cape and scalloped edge, his old corduroy trousers and great brogues, and his stout stick made fast to his wrist by a thong of leather: and he would have been a woeful shock to the gleeman MacConglinne, could that friend of kings have beheld him in prophetic vision from the pillar stone at Cork.

Showers of rain fell every hour throughout the day, so I employed my men in making feldt-schoens, or, in other words, African brogues for me.

And then she camea big, brown-eyed girl, full-built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp, and a calfskin bag slung from her shoulders.

But William Sim had not been two years in Carlisle when he began to show his shirt collar; his clattering brogues gave place to silent pumps, his leathern bendy to a fashionable hat, and his coarse grey jacket to a coat with tails.

There was a clatter and garble of foreign tongues and brogues, shrill cries, quarrels and wrangles, and the Pit pulsed with a great and steady murmur, like the hum of the human hive that it was.

"Told us," I say out of complaisance, but "tould" would be the better word, as all they uttered savoured so much of the brogue, that it was not always easy to get at their meaning.

Her voice was so sweet, with just a soupçon of the brogue to make it enchanting."

You with your conventional hat and English walking-coat, I with my spectacles and Irish brogue, have had ancestors that wore coats of mail in the first crusade, or twanged cross-bows with Robin Hood, sailed in the ships of Tarshish, and traded to Tyre and Sidon.

If a man has a brogue, I am sure to catch myself imitating it.

He is a polite mulatto, uneducated, and just enough brogue to lend the Southern flavor to his speech, but is a fluent conversationalist.

It was he had told me not to sing ma Scottish songsthat English audiences were tired o' everything that had to do wi' a kilt or a pair o' brogues!

There he was draggin' me up an' down at the tail of a plough, wid the wet soakin' in through the holes in his brogues, till I couldn't stand it any more, an' I come away wid meself, an' I've been waitin' for ye this two hours.'

I have always been attentive to the peculiarities of speech, and his was not the brogue of the Irish servant class.