It is said that "the peasants work in the boots and trousers of their husbands and ride in the saddle."

One young hopeful once tore his clothes a-fishing, and mended his trousers with a scarlet flannel patch!

A priest's trousers on a clothes-line might well be the beginning of atheism.

" A faint smile curved her lips and shone in her eyes, and Stafford was so fascinated by the sudden gleam of girlishness that he had to bend and pat Bess, who was planting dusty impression on his trousers in her frantic efforts to gain his attention.

She was patching a pair of leather trousers for Fergus and she did not raise her eyes from the work.

I unhooked them, and placing the coat on the ground I drew on the oily trousers over my convict breeches and stockings.

Hooray, Clive,' and an ass came down the incline with a little pair of white trousers at an immensely wide angle over the donkey's back, and there was little Alfred grinning with all his might.

To give a wild, barbaric look to the boys who represented Clovis' henchmen, the sister superintendent of the wardrobe had tacked up their white trousers to the knee.

Boys and ladies and gentlemen, take a good look at that object standing up there at the backmorning coat, trousers as worn, quiet grey tie, and carnation in buttonholeyou can't miss him.

The boss canvasman was in the same fix, and everybody that tried to hold an animal was pinned together with thorns, and they had gravel up their trousers from sticking their heels into the soil.

He refused to wear, save on state occasions, any of the beautiful new garments, and again went forth in the cap and dingy sneakers, the trousers without character, and the indeterminate sweater which would persist in looking soiled even after relentless washing.

His coat was of black, of a noticeably neat appearance, and I observed, as a further evidence of fastidiousness rare upon the Road, that he was saving his trousers by kneeling on a bit of carpet.

If you are playing a match there, it is advisable to tuck your trousers into your socks when you sit down to luncheon.

These natural weapons, which have been furnished them by Providence as a means of defence in their Extremity, cut through a fellow's trousers like paper.

Then he rolled his trousers above the knee and with his shoes in his hand, started on his mission.

Some of the men had herculean arms and necks, and it was these who wore pieces of string tied round their trousers below the knee, disclosing the lines of their formidable calves.

He strongly suspected that he recognised Wildney as one of them, and therefore made straight for his dormitory, which he entered, just as that worthy had thrust the beer-stained trousers under his bed.

Then he produced some elastic bands and secured his trousers around the ankles.

When he came to himself, the captain of the canal-boat stooped and took a fold of the gray trousers between his thumb and finger.