Sentence examples for a breeches from inspiring English sources

In the summer of 1883 Homer saw a demonstration in Atlantic City of the use of a breeches buoy for rescue from the sea.

As in the opera, this boy looks like a "breeches" role, offering the most tempting kiss, pressing the softest cheek to cheek.

The church has two old Bibles, a Vinegar Bible and a Breeches Bible.

Coast Guardsmen on shore attached three lines to the ship and set up a breeches buoy to take off the harbor pilot, but the crew stayed on board the ship in hopes that the high tide would free her from the rocky perch.

At the première in November, Tom Fashion was instead played as a breeches role by Mary Kent, an unusual piece of emergency casting that puts a different face on a uniquely frank homosexual scene where Tom keeps skipping nimbly out of the way of the matchmaker Coupler's lecherous groping.

It's a breech birth.

'As with Alicia, Prentice was born in a breech position.

The threat of litigation has also, largely, put paid to a midwife presiding over a breech or a twin birth, far less a twin breech birth.

Alma's first child Maria, known as Putzi, was a breech birth.

It was a breech birth, which left her with a dislocated hip.

It was a breech birth, however, and the woman started crying in agony.