Sentence examples for pair of breeches from inspiring English sources

In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat.

Such casting didn't always stem from a feminist impulse — a pair of breeches shows off lots more leg than a long skirt — but it did provide compelling opportunities for actresses who felt limited by the roles available to them.

Had just thinking of him conjured him up? "What are you doing here?" she whispered as softly as she could, noticing that he had divested himself of all his clothes save a thin pair of breeches and a loose shirt.

Recycled polyester began showing up in surf shorts two years ago, hemp blends appeared the following year, and this season bamboo blends as well as a pair of breeches that can be recycled are available.

You can't bear that I tormentingly chose to marry money – I mean, his big house – I mean, him, rather than a great big cruel dirty brute of uncertain provenance like you, no matter how much better you fill out a pair of breeches!

(The answer has much to do with Walter's difficulties in struggling into a pair of breeches, and the maid Susannah's inability to hold in her head his favoured name, "Trismegistus", as she runs down the corridor to where the vicar waits to christen an apparently dying newborn).

"I was able to take them about thirty pairs of breeches, twenty shirts, four pairs of boots, and two halters".

Katla was the owner of a pair of magic breeches, which made her a very fleet runner.

"The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].

Riding clothes are pricey — a pair of white breeches, suitable for Grand Prix competitions, can cost more than two hundred dollars, and the dry-cleaning bills are horrendous — but Bloomberg insists that riding is not a privilege reserved for the wealthy.

The Gibson Girl, of the same period — America's first pinup — is posed against a backdrop of nature, in a pair of riding breeches, a skating sweater, and a woollen bathing costume that breaks the sensational news that women have legs.