146 examples of corduroys in sentences

I retired upon the days of my boyhood, my legs and feet becoming clairvoyant of the corduroys and highlows of that happy period of my existence, as the revolving curls of pale smoke exhibited to me, with marvellous fidelity, many quaint successive tableaux of the old familiar scenes of home,sentimental, some of them,comic, others,like the domestic incidents revealed with exaggerations on the hazy field of a magic-lantern.

They sewed up those corduroys, tight as they were.

Right up to the topmost benches the folk were bankedbroadcloth in front, corduroys and fustian behind; faces turned everywhere upon him.

She rallied Bennington mercilessly on his corduroys, his yellow flapped pistol holster, his laced boots.

An old man in corduroys, who wears a dirty handkerchief round his neck for collar and cravat, and is charged with feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away his forty-first pair of boots and is also a bit 'ard of 'earing, insists that he is the man.

And from first to last the pauper child was haunted by the peculiar pauper smell, containing elements of whitewash, damp boards, soap, steam, hot pipes, the last dinner and the next, corduroys, a little chlorate of lime, and the bodies of hundreds of children.

"M. le Maire," indicating corduroys, who clutched a handful of straw out of his beard and groaned loudly.

" Corduroys rolled his eyes like a driven bullock, sneezed a shower of straw and groaned again.

You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.

At their head, bearing aloft a scarlet banner of protest, strode a commanding figure in corduroys, head up, his feet stepping a martial pace.

Unconsciously, as though he were alone, he hitched the corduroys up over his narrow hips, in the motion of one who has been riding.

As was all but usual at that day, the direction they were going bore no trace of a road; but the man astride the vicious-looking roan cayuse who led the way, the same copper-brown man with the corduroys of Bob Manning's store, showed no hesitation.

Ranchers there were in corduroys and denims, cowboys in buckskin and flannel, gamblers in the glaring colours distinctive of their kind, business men with closely cropped moustaches, idlers in anything and everything; but amid them all not a friendly face.

Erect as a maize plant, dressed once more in the flannels and corduroys of his station, as tall and graceful, he merely stood there with folded arms, looking down on the girl.

When all was ready, the two mendressed in flannels, corduroys, and high-laced, mountain bootscalled good-by to Yee Kee, respectfully invited Croesus to proceed, and set outwith Czar, the fourth member of the party, flying here and there in such a whirlwind of good spirits that not a shred of his usual dignity was left.

Having no more Indian reserves to visit, I took the stage, and rumbled over corduroys, republicans, stumps, and ruts, until my ribs were literally sore, through London, Xenia, and Lebanon, to Cincinnati.

The stores sold salt, iron-mongery, pewterware, corduroys, rum, brandy, whiskey, wine, ribbons, linen, calamancos, and in fact generally what would be found at that day in any store in the smaller towns of the older States.

] A few yards from the side-door Mr. Vickers stood smoking a contemplative pipe; the side-door itself had just closed behind a tall man in corduroys, who bore in his right hand a large mug made of pewter.

" Pat paused, rubbing his knotted fingers up and down the ragged knees of his corduroys.

" The good lady looked at my worn, tight-fitting corduroys, at my clean boiled shirt which I had done up myself, at my heavy boots, newly greased for the occasion, and at my bright blue and red silk neckerchief, and turned to other guests.

To ride these wooded uplands, eight thousand feet above the world, with a sprightly Peter Pan clad in silver-gray corduroys and chatting happily, is an enchantment.

"Go get him the corduroys," said she.

" "The corduroys?" he said, somewhat doubtfully, I thought.

He ran his eyes over my corduroys and leggings amiably.

Next day, at dusk, there arrived at the Dun Cow an elderly man with a large carpet-bag and a strapped bundle of patternstweed, kersey, velveteen, and corduroys.

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