He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.
He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer.
One way or another, I've spent a lot of time in breeches and boots lately. I'm pretty sick of hanging round in frilly shirts. It makes you long to get back into your jeans
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we h
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a croune He held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call'd the taylor loune. He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee.
Women wear the breeches.
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labour.
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