Then the Duchess got up her Dutch spunk, and spoke out pretty freely, saying as much as if LEOPOLD were a tame sort of poodle, and that she ought to have been born to wear breeches, just to show him how a man should act in a great crisis like the present.

He opened the breech and looked into the barrels.

Can you picture Ephraim Tutt with his hair cut short or in an Ascot tie, any more than you can envisage him in riding breeches or wearing lilacs?

Gammer Gurton is patching the leather breeches of her man Hodge, when Gib, the cat, gets into the milk pan.

I took the breech end home with me, and endangered my life with it many years.

"In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover (so I translate the word ranfu-lo, by which they meant my breeches), we saw a hollow pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.

" Then, after a few moments, making a final clutch at economy before the warmth and the whisky subdued him altogether: "Say, Nicholas, have you gothasn't the Ol' Chief got anyless glorious breeches than those?" "Hey?" "Anything little cheaper?" "Nuh," says Nicholas.

With the thumb of the hand in which he held the marshal's gun the Ramblin' Kid threw open the breech and flipped the shells on the ground.

I recognize my knee-breeches, my stockings, my chapeau, my waistcoat!"

" "Go ahead and buy the breeches, Mabel.

Slaves that with serious impudence beguile, And lie without a blush, without a smile; Exalt each trifle, ev'ry vice adore, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a whore: Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and swear, He gropes his breeches with a monarch's air.

"If you had killed him," she said, "I would have killed you!" Steinmetz picked up the rifle, closed the breech, and handed it to De Chauxville with a queer smile.

" "Well, if the worst comes to the worst," drawled the Colonel, "we'll change breeches.

He donned riding-breeches and took a horse from his well-appointed stable.

These were short, fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk-breeches, and are renowned for feats of the trencher; they were the first inventors of suppawn, or mush and milk....

The pantomimic movements were of various descriptions; besides the singular quivering motion given to the thighs placed wide apart (common to all the Australian dances) they frequently invited each other to throw at them, turning the body half round and exposing the breech, or dropping on one knee or hand as if to offer a fair mark.

And I stepped down to face the breech of a gun whose muzzle pointed out of another hole in the timbered roof covered with earth.

My father made all possible speed to find his breeches.

I also found an old gun some traveler had left, and with a little work I fitted the breech of that to my own gun which was broken, and had been roughly tied together with strips of raw-hide.

" With that, I girt up my breeches anew, and slung the fish tighter round my neck, and began to climb up through the water-slide.

"Very well," says I, and grabbed the breeches, an' give him the dress.

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

"Points" were the tags which held up the breeches.

The women in their field kit, so feminine though it included breeches, gave a grace to those wayside halts, and gave to dirty men the chance of little courtesies which brought back civilization to their thoughts, even though life had gone back to primitive things with just life and death, hunger and thirst, love and courage, as the laws of existence.

He was remarkable for always jerking up his breeches when he gave out his orders, and his voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpetowing to the number of hard northwesters which he had swallowed in the course of his seafaring.