kneebreeches

It must be my hereness and thereness, I thought, or the velvet kneebreeches.

Creatures: A Memoir 2008

It must be my hereness and thereness, I thought, or the velvet kneebreeches.

Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008

The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A big pot-bellied lout clad in a ragged shirt and kneebreeches bound with a black sash surged to his feet from the nearest table and looked us up and down, sizing us up.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

We are transported to the age of chokers and kneebreeches, and the easy-going and good-humoured spirit of the times is well caught, and combined with the more delicate touches of feeling.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

They wore jackets of a bright light blue, beautifully embroidered along the edges with disks of red, gold, and black; red sashes, tied round their waists, hung to the knees; their full kneebreeches were white, their shoes black, and their stockings of white wool.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

The Frogman's usual costume consisted of kneebreeches made of yellow satin plush, with trimmings of gold braid and jeweled knee-buckles; a white satin vest with silver buttons in which were set solitaire rubies;

The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917