bocker

One of the jolly old port-wine and knicker-bocker sort: an old Oxford man, as it happened.

Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

He was clad in a knicker - bocker suit, but as at the same time he wore short socks under his laced boots, for reasons which, whether hygienic or conscientious, were surely imaginative, his calves, exposed to the public gaze and to the tonic air of high altitudes, dazzled the beholder by the splendour of their marble-like condition and their rich tone of young ivory.

A Personal Record 1919

Never in all his life had he listened to such a frankly cold-blooded argument as that put forth by the insufferable Knicker-bocker.

The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897

I nearly ran back again to my lighted parlour; Fyne fussing in a knicker-bocker suit before the hosts of heaven, on a shadowy earth, about a transient, phantom-like girl, seemed too ridiculous to associate with.

Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

I felt a certain degree of awe at the thought of invading with police investigation, this home of ancient Knicker-bocker respectability.

A Strange Disappearance Anna Katharine Green 1890

I nearly ran back again to my lighted parlour; Fyne fussing in a knicker-bocker suit before the hosts of heaven, on a shadowy earth, about a transient, phantom-like girl, seemed too ridiculous to associate with.

Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

But Ingleborough was a strong man, and he proved it, for, stepping behind the man, he caught him by the collar of his jacket and the loose part of his knicker-bocker-like breeches, and dragged him off the wagon, to plant him down in front of West.

A Dash from Diamond City George Manville Fenn 1870

There was a large family in a neighbouring lodging containing what he respectfully called 'big knicker-bocker boys,' who excited his intense admiration, and drew him like a magnet.

That Stick Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Of the merit of his _Knicker-bocker, _ and New York stories, we cannot pretend to judge.

The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

Ash had a big beligium waffle and i had what looked like a knicker bocker glory!

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