The cook was waddling in her pattens.

The Lancashire lass with head shawl and pattens, the wearer of the universal sailor hat, in these days of independence and pounds, shillings and pence, are taking note of the shop windows.

The prospect of his departure filled Félicité with despair, and in order to bid him farewell, on Wednesday night, after Madame's dinner, she put on her pattens and trudged the four miles that separated Pont-l'Evêque from Honfleur.

As for Norman William's destruction of houses and churches to make it hunting ground, that is utter nonsense which never could have been written by anybody that ever saw it: but as to hunting, except his horses wore something like mud-pattens or snow-shoes, it is difficult to conceive it.

neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned &c v.; kempt^. abstergent^, cathartic, cleansing, purifying.

And all the goblets were of silver and all the pattens were of gold, and the table was spread with a napkin embroidered with threads of gold.

The pattens are put upon our feet, and the brown arm steadies us gently through the sweating-room and ante-chamber into the outer hall, where we mount to our couch.

His way through Misses picking, Like pig with tender pettitoes, Or chicken-hearted chicken; A tom-cat shod with walnut-shells, A pony race in pattens, A wagon-horse tricked out with bells, A sow in silks and satins, A butcher's hair en papillote, And lounging Piccadilly, A clown in an embroidered coat, Are not more gauche and silly.

It was in the autumn, and Oline wore shoes every day, instead of going in wooden pattens or rough hide.

" Said Isak: "What's wrong with your pattens, then, that you can't use them?"

" "With my pattens?" "Ay." "Well ... and me carding and spinning, and tending cattle and sheep and all, looking after children herehave you nothing to say to that?

I'd like to know; that wife of yours that's in prison for her deeds, did you let her go barefoot in the snow?" "She wore her pattens," said Isak.

" Said Oline: "As for that, I'll wear out my pattens in time, no doubt.

I'd no thought there was any such haste to wear out good pattens all at once."

"In pattens I am, sir," she said quickly.

My piety perpetual matins, A quaker propp'd on double pattens; My lovely girls the most precocious, My beaus delightfully atrocious!

one of his iron pattens was cast out with the lava, and recognized.

The starting effort on such heavily laden sledges is very heavy, but I thought the grip of the pattens and studs would have been good enough on any surface.

Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 1. PIG, a learned, iv.

Mr. Patten has the deck.

The Female Tatler advertises, "the young gentleman belonging to the custom-house who, in fear of rain, borrowed the umbrella from Wilks' Coffee-House, shall the next time be welcome to the maid's pattens."

Mrs. Barry's clogs! and Mrs. Bracegirdle's pattens!

When the mud's up to your neck, you needn't trouble yourself because you've lost your pattens.

I knock, and after an interval hear the sound of pattens clacking across the flagged floor, and am admitted by an old woman, dried and pickled, by the action of the years, into an active cleanly old mummy, and whose fingers are wrinkled even more than time has done it, by the action of soapsuds.

The wood is used for making clogs, pattens, and other such purposes; and the bark for dyeing and manufacturing some of the finer kinds of leather.