Now mine I quickly doff of inkle blue; Together fast I tie the garters twain,

"Immemorial tradition has asserted that King Arthur, his queen Guenever, his court of lords and ladies, and his hounds were enchanted in some cave of the crags, or in a hall below the castle of Sewingshields, and would continue entranced there until someone should first blow a bugle-horn that lay on a table near the entrance of the hall, and then with the 'sword of the stone' (was this Excalibur?) cut a garter, also placed there beside it.

He studies by the discretion of his barber, to frizzle like a baboon; three such would keep three the nimblest barbers in the town from ever having leisure to wear net-garters, for when they have to do with him, they have many irons in the fire.

With a laugh he reached into his pocket and drew out the pink satin garter.

Harry was to chop the wood, while Alfred was to pile it on the porch; and Cornelia would finish the garters that she was kniting as a Christmas present for papa.

Next to him in joy is the Earl of Holdernessewho has not got the garter.

I'm going right back thar Monday and git me them green garters that the gal showed me.

the Ramblin' Kid laughed, slipping his hand to his breast pocket and caressing the pink satin garter.

There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves; With tender billets-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.

Then he got up, went over and lifted the garter from where it had fallen and replaced it in his pocket.

he repeated bitterly, then with a queer smile in which was a world of tenderness he pulled the pink satin elastic garter he had picked up at the circular corral, from his pocket and looked at it long and wistfully.

As the knight is leaving the mansion, Altisidora accuses him of having stolen her garters, but when the knight denies the charge, the damsel protests that she said so in her distraction, for her garters were not stolen.

and, taking off her golden garter, she placed it around his neck, and, weaving rushes, made a girdle to lead him with.

As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree, I twitched his dangling garter from his knee; He wist not when the hempen string I drew.

Sabota stepped quickly forward and with the toe of his shoe kicked the garter toward the bar, where all could see it.

Before reaching the barn the Ramblin' Kid dropped the garter again into his pocket.

She went in at last, remembering that the children must be washed and fed for school, and found Danny's garter for him just in time to save him from the gulf of despair which threatened him.

He was fingering the garter in his pocket and looking toward the river when Carolyn June appeared on the ridge as she returned alone to the ranch.