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Breeches in sentence

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I love his orange and pink breeches.
I get the feeling he never even read the book, just sauntered on set in his too tight breeches and was handed a character summary that read "Grumpy, broody, murky past."
At the very least, ticket buyers would have expected, based on the lavish sets and art design, all in Technicolor, a passionate story of behind-the-scenes Old Vienna, complete with everyone wearing evening dress or gilt-braid uniforms with red breeches, with gas lights and wet cobblestones, with jealous prima donnas, excerpts from operettas and dancers in pastel tutus.
The only glitch not mentioned at this site is the plot starting the story; appointing the killer as a Wehrmacht General, due to recognition of the red piping on the officers breeches.
Is that a woman in breeches?' cried one, pointing to Vasenka Veslovsky, who was getting into the side-saddle.
He walked with long strides, shivering beneath his worn cotton jacket and corduroy breeches.
She put on her miner s breeches, then her canvas jacket, and fastened the blue cap on her knotted hair; in these clean Monday clothes she had the appearance of a little man; nothing remained to indicate her sex except the slight roll of her hips.
He was putting on his breeches when an idea occurred to him, and he opened the window.
But this morning there was much amusement: they were joking Mouquette, a putter girl of eighteen, whose enormous breasts and flanks were bursting through her old jacket and breeches.
It was the element of bestiality which breathed in the pit, the sudden desire of the male, when a miner met one of these girls on all fours, with her flanks in the air and her hips bursting through her boy's breeches.
Mouquette had tranquilly let down her breeches to dry her chemise.
Catherine, whose turn came first, had filled it with warm water; and she undressed herself tranquilly, took off her cap, her jacket, her breeches, and even her chemise, habituated to this since the age of eight, having grown up without seeing any harm in it.
They took hold of the handles of the tub and emptied it into the gutter before the door, when Jeanlin came down in dry garments, breeches and a woollen blouse, too large for him, which were weary of fading on his brother's back.
When he got up Maheu simply put on a dry pair of breeches.
Was that the urchin whom he had seen in breeches, with her head in the canvas cap?
He had his cap, his breeches and canvas jacket, and he shivered and warmed his back in the shed before the large fire.
He himself undressed the child, unfastening the cap, taking off the jacket, drawing off the breeches and shirt with the skill of a nurse.
A putter-girl was taken and whipped by the women with her breeches split open and her buttocks exposed before the laughing men.
Maheu had pushed him, and Maheude was among those who grew furious, both of them satisfying their old spite; even Mouquette, who generally remained such good friends with her old lovers, was wild with this one, treating him as a good-for-nothing, and talking of taking his breeches down to see if he was still a man.
She had secretly prepared her miner's clothes the evening before; he took a jacket and breeches from the cupboard; and they did not wash themselves for fear of knocking the bowl.
She undressed herself without shame and wrung out her clothes, then she put on again the jacket and breeches, and let them finish drying on her.
Some there were lounging in their carriages, gliding through parks, a greyhound bounding along in front of the equipage driven at a trot by two midget postilions in white breeches.
In fact, Emma was charmed with his appearance as he stood on the landing in his great velvet coat and white corduroy breeches.
She wore velvet breeches, red stockings, a club wig, and three-cornered hat cocked on one side.
'How well his breeches fit him, how elegantly his hair is cut!
His head was bald and bare, but a well-powdered wig was to be seen, half-concealed, in the pocket of his breeches.
"Aye," cried the delighted trooper, "to mend the peddler's breeches."
Sometimes the cart itself was her shop; at others the soldiers made her a rude shelter of such materials as offered; but on the present occasion she had seized on a vacant building, and, by dint of stuffing the dirty breeches and half-dried linen of the troopers into the broken windows, to exclude the cold, which had now become severe, she formed what she herself had pronounced to be "most illigant lodgings."
His coat was of a rusty black, and his breeches and stockings were of the same color; his shoes without luster, and half-concealed beneath huge plated buckles.
"Golly!" said Caesar, with a chuckle, that exhibited a mouth open from ear to ear, "Massa Harry breeches fit.""Anything but your leg," said the peddler, coolly pursuing the toilet of Henry.
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