The 241 occurrences of knickers
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; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg[obs3], fillibeg[obs3]; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims.
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He looked much the same as when they first saw him, except that he had changed his picturesque mountaineering knickers for a conventional pair of trousers.
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{16} A WISH I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of joy again, I'd like to tread the hills and dales the way I used to do; I'd like the tattered shirt again, the knickers thick with dirt again, The ugly, dusty feet again that long ago I knew.
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His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation to the slangy, gum-chewing, redheaded office boy of the comic sections.
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A boy in knickers.
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Condy and Blix looked up sharply, and there in a group not twenty feet away, in tweeds and "knickers," in smart, short golfing skirts and plaid cloaks, they saw young Sargeant and his sister, two other girls whom they knew as members of the fashionable "set," and Jack Carter in the act of swinging his driving iron.
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Out in the stock-room, under her supervision, there was scientifically packed into sample-trunks and cases a line of Featherloom skirts and knickers calculated to dazzle Brazil and entrance Argentina.
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Needless to say, the pants were the knee length kind, known as knickers, gathered with elastic above the knees.
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Most of us boys got stockings which met the knickers above the knees.
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The corduroy knickers stood out full above the knees due to the gathering by the elastic.
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Willis and Mrs. Woodford arrived, Willis in home-made knickers and black sneakers through at the toe; then Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Dillon, people as harmless and grateful as the Woodfords.
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Had Davidson seen a real hobgoblin his eyes could not have bulged more than at this small boy in a dirty white blouse and ragged knickers.
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They have no caps to distinguish them, no jerseys or knickers of bright hues.
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They were dressed alike in blue jerseys and knickers; their brown legs were bare, and each had her hair plaited and pinned up in what was called a horse's tail.
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On the other side of the beach, close down to the water, two little boys, their knickers rolled up, twinkled like spiders.
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A pair of blue cotton knickers and a linen bodice that reminded one somehow of a pillow-case... "And you don't wear stays, do you?"
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In her knickers and middy blouse she looked like a little girl, and he stood watching her as, flushed and excited, she ran round the long room.
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LIL' FELLER When th.' sunshine's golden-yeller Like th' curls upon his head, Then he wakes--th' lil' feller-- An' he jumps up, outen bed; An' he scrambles fer his knickers Flung, perhaps, upon th' floor, An' he takes his hat (my old 'un), An' he races through th' door-- An' I hear his voice, a-singin', In his odd, ole-fashioned way, 'Cause he's glad--th' lil' feller-- In th' mornin' o' the day.
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When he stepped forth in the black jersey, white knickers, and black stockings of the First Fifteen, the new match-ball under his arm, and his old and frayed cap at the back of his head, the small fry of the lower forms stood apart and worshipped, and the "new caps" of the team talked to him ostentatiously, that the world might see.
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She scrambled on to them and came sliding down, her frock up to her eyes, and her holland knickers to her middle.
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At twelve o'clock, Prince Ferdinand William Otto, clad in his riding-garments of tweed knickers, puttees, and a belted jacket, stood by the schoolroom window and looked out.
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I suppose they'll resolve into baggy knickers and the sort of long shirt with a belt to it the youngsters of your age all wear.
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"What d'you take any notice of those rotters for?" said Stalky, playing substitute for the Old Boys, magnificent in black jersey, white knickers, and black stockings.
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"I'll wait just long enough for you to put on knickers and a short skirt," said he.
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She scrambled on to them and came sliding down, her frock up to her eyes, and her holland knickers to her middle.
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A score of the younger boys in white knickers and singlets came pattering down from the stage, through the vestry and to the chapel.
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How deliciously keen and new was this consciousness of clothes--the smart high-laced boots, the soft, sand-colored coat and skirt, the knickers which felt so easy and so trim, the cool, silk shirt with its wide collar, the dainty, intimate things beneath!
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The professor rose slowly and dusted the dry grass from the knees of his knickers.
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And she saw a long Roman candle going up over the trees, up, up, and, in the tense hush, they were all breathless with excitement as it went higher and higher and she had to lean back more and more to look up after it, high, high, almost out of sight, and her face was suffused with a divine, an entrancing blush from straining back and he could see her other things too, nainsook knickers, the fabric that caresses the skin, better than those other pettiwidth, the green, four and eleven, on account of being white and she let him and she saw that he saw and then it went so high it went out of sight a moment and she was trembling in every limb from being bent so far back that he had a full view high up above her knee where no-one ever not even on the swing or wading and she wasn't ashamed and he wasn't either to look in that immodest way like that because he couldn't resist the sight of the wondrous revealment half offered like those skirtdancers behaving so immodest before gentlemen looking and he kept on looking, looking.
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Or stockingette gussetted knickers, closed?
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: : What do you think I've found-- two wee knickers of fairy brass, or two gold sovereigns folded up in a bit of green silk, or two gold bugs in little green shirts?
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And scrambling to his feet with elephantine ease, he brushed the dust from his knickers, and wiped his brows with an uncleanly handkerchief which looked as if it had been used for drying oil off the bicycle as well as off the man.
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This to Leveson, who was trying by means of the most awkward contortions to rise to a sitting posture--"You will find it difficult--among other misfortunes your knickers will burst, and there is no tailor close at hand.
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He noticed, as he went, that the men crossing the green were mostly clad in Norfolk jackets and knickers, so he purchased the first pair of unrespectable un-ankle-concealing trousers he had owned since small boyhood, and a jacket of rough serge, with a gaudy buckle on the belt.
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He was shy of the knickers and golf-stockings, but it was the orange tie that gave him real alarm.
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"She can climb a tree in her knickers, and fish and skate and row and swim and fence, and play golf and tennis, and shoot, and dive from a spring board, and she can ride anything that has four legs."
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They didn't think it was nice for you to put on your knickers and swing on the trapeze.
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I wouldn't let the Kents see me in my knickers, and you know it."
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"If you were a small boy in knickers, O'Dowd, I should say that you were mortally afraid of the place."
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"If I were a small boy," said O'Dowd, "I'd be scairt entirely out of me knickers.
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KNEE-DEEP IN KNICKERS X.
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IX KNEE-DEEP IN KNICKERS When the column of figures under the heading known as "Profits," and the column of figures under the heading known as "Loss" are so unevenly balanced that the wrong side of the ledger sags, then to the listening stockholders there comes the painful thought that at the next regular meeting it is perilously possible that the reading may come under the heads of Assets and Liabilities.
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Scant, smart, trim little taupe-gray messaline knickers for a taupe gray suit, blue messaline for blue suits, brown messaline for brown--" T. A. Buck stared, open-mouthed, the paper on which he had been scrawling fluttering unnoticed to the floor.
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I rather think they'll fancy a snappy little pair of yellow satin knickers under a gown of the new orange plush.
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The girls were soon back, all in navy-blue bathing-suits, knickers below, and a belted tunic reaching to their knees above--too much clothed for Mollie's taste; she liked to be skimpy when she went swimming.
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Her short, blue-serge skirt was at its shortest and made no pretence at hiding her serviceable blue knickers, from which emerged a pair of useful girl-guidish legs, suitably clad in black merino stockings and lace-up shoes.
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Guido nearly stepped on a humble-bee--buzz-zz!--the bee was so alarmed he actually crept up Guido's knickers to the knee, and even then knocked himself against a wheat-ear when he started to fly.
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The "Bleeding Lamb" and his atheist opponent Gresham, the Polish Countess Vera Voblinska with her unhappy husband who looked like an out-at-elbows mute attached to a third-rate undertaker's business, a dress-reforming lady disciple of Armitage, a queer figure, not more than four feet in height, who looked like a little boy in her knickers and jersey, till you caught sight of the short grizzled hair and wrinkled face, who confided to me that she was "quite in love with the doctor, he was so _quaint_;" and numerous others belonged to that class; and finally a considerable sprinkling of the really criminal classes who seemed to find in the Anarchist doctrine of "Fais ce que veux" that salve to their conscience for which even the worst scoundrels seem to crave, and which, at worst, permitted them to justify their existences in their own eyes as being the "rotten products of a decaying society."
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Some of the German girls looked very well in their "knickers," but I agree with the Generalkommando that the appearance of some of the older women was "cruelty" not only to the "earnest mountain population" but to any observer.
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the bee was so alarmed he actually crept up Guido's knickers to the knee, and even then knocked himself against a wheat-ear when he started to fly.
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However, a man from Delft, who followed the business of a knickerbocker, or baker of knickers, or clay marles, begged the body of the Oni.
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And he've got on the knickers with the patch at the back!"
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But now, as his sun was setting and his days grew short, he saw in his dark hours only the picture of the old mama, who had been kind to him and his children, who had never scolded, who was plain, who cooked the meals and patched the little boys' knickers and the skirts of the little girls.
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When the aunt touched his waist-belt to unbutton his knickers, a cold shiver ran down his back; he gasped and his heart thumped against his ribs.
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Knickers in their gymnasium and field work had become second nature to them.
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"Wait till she sees Bobby's knickers," chuckled Dora Lockwood.
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The little boys wear short jackets and long knickers.
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D'you see that chap in blue knickers in the shade of the sycamores?--he's the Gap Gang sentry.
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Blue Knickers had withdrawn; he could mark no prowling figures.
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D'you see that chap in blue knickers in the shade of the sycamores?--he's the Gap Gang sentry.
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Blue Knickers had withdrawn; he could mark no prowling figures.
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Who ever heard of a sailor in knickers?"
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Mind ye, I 'ad a sort of funny feelin' when you tole me in the train you was my second mate, an' you sat there a-wearin' knickers.
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The STRANGER is in Bavarian alpine kit: short jacket of rough material, knickers, heavy boots and alpenstock, green hat with heath-cock feather.
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"If they cotch Mr. Butterford, they'll make 'im pay up smart for lettin yer do such a thing as make knickers in 'is 'ouse.
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"An, yer know, if I can't make the knickers at 'ome, I can't make 'em awy from 'ome.
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He had known and prescribed for Winnington since he was a boy in knickers; he was particularly attached to Lady Tonbridge.
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I couldn't myself, if it had been Harry Snell or Bill Bailey; but as it was, my pride of khaki helmet, knickers, and puttees collapsed like a burst balloon.
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I haven't seen you since you were in knickers.
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His stumpy legs looked ridiculous in his baggy golf knickers of rough tweed, which he wore with gaiters extending half-way up his short, stout calves.
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His stumpy legs looked ridiculous in his baggy golf knickers of rough tweed, which he wore with gaiters extending half-way up his short, stout calves.
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There are the short gray knickers and the thin white shirt affected by the Native Christian boy; there is the short black hair; but the skin is white, unusually white for a native of Goa, and there is something curious about the face which prompts you to ask the owner who he is and whence he comes.
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pants, trousers, trowsers † ; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles † , overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan † ; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg † , fillibeg † ; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims.
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pants, trousers, trowsers † ; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles † , overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan † ; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg † , fillibeg † ; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims.
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knee: - angularity 244 N. kneel to: - submission 725 V. - request 765 V. - respect 928 V. kneel: - servility 886 V. - courtesy 894 V. - pity 914 V. - worship 990 V. - interment 363 N. - depression 308 V. - submission 725 V. kneeling prostration: - respect 928 N. kneeling: - worship 990 N. - courtesy 894 N. - submission 725 N. knell: - lamentation 839 N. knickerbockers: - clothing 225 N. knickers: - clothing 225 N. knickknack: - unimportance 643 N. - amusement 840 N. knife edge: - sharpness 253 N. knife edged: - sharpness 253 Adj.
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"I wonder who the dark young man in the fancy knickers is?"
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"I wonder who the dark young man in the fancy knickers is?"
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So he had put on three sweaters, two pairs of trousers, and his football knickers, and run around the track for fully four miles, until he was in doubt as to whether he was a liquid or a solid body.
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When Amazon kicked off, many writers got their knickers in a tight and powerful knot at the idea that axe-grinding yahoos were filling the Amazon message-boards with ill-considered slams at their work -- for, if a personal recommendation is the best way to sell a book, then certainly a personal condemnation is the best way to *not* sell a book.
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He would probably call football shorts "knickers."
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Some of them had on uniform knickers, and some, long, unpressed trousers.
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Darned socks which had covered active little feet; tiny short "knickers" patched at the knees; shabby coat--moulded, it would seem, into the very shape of the chubby figure--the mother ironed and polished them, and laid them in a tidy heap.
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A strange figure she made, with loose hair cascading over her coat, with knickers and puttees, with wounded arm slung in the breast of her jacket.
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My rig out was a picter they told me--deer-stalker and knickers O.K.-- "BRIGGS, Junior," a lobsculler called me; I wasn't quite fly to his lay; But BRIGGS or no BRIGGS I shaped spiffin, in mustard-and-mud-colour checks.
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I asked him to come right in and tell me all about it--for like every one else I have friends in the prison-camps of Germany, boys whom I remember as little chaps in knickers playing with my children, boys I taught in country schools in Manitoba, boys whose parents are my friends.
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It is like the sharply cut field of vision in an opera-glass, in which figures are drawn and shaded, and cross each other; where one makes out, at times, a hat bound and befeathered, swaying as it goes; a little boy with sky-blue tie and buttoned boots, and tubular knickers hanging round his thin, bare calves; a couple of gossiping dames in swollen and somber petticoats, who tack hither and thither, meet, are mutually attracted and dissolve in conversation, like rolling drops of ink.
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She is in corset, knickers, and silk stockings._ BURGE-LUBIN [_horrified_] I beg your pardon a thousand times--[_The startled negress snatches the peg out of her switchboard and vanishes_].
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He had a frenzied mass of hair, A little redder than red rust, And trousers so exceeding short It looked as if by mounting high They meant unceasingly to try To change to knickers on the sly.
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He saw Miss Henderson sit down and another woman also in tunic and knickers take her place.
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There stood the trimmest and most graceful figure ever garbed in racing blouse, knickers, boots and cap, with flushed face, dilating, frightened eyes and hands not a little tremulous.
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"Why, Betty," she said, "lots of city women who do their own housework don 'knickers' or gymnasium suits to work in.
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[Illustration: There's no 'olding 'im now, sir, since 'e's gone into knickers--e's' that pomptious!
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Equally clever is the study of a small boy, (reproduced on page 27) whose "pomptiousness" on attaining the dignity of knickers forms the subject of admiring comment from his mother to a friendly curate: the mother herself being a wonderful study of low life.
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Tullis was father, mother and big brother to the little fellow in knickers.
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Unconsciously, the boy in knickers had uttered a truth that no one else had dared to voice.
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His firm little legs, in half hose and presumably white knickers, were spread apart and his hands were in his pockets.
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Facing them, on the stone door-step, was the Witch herself, a figure to try the courage of a time-tried hero, let alone the susceptibilities of a small boy in knickers.
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Every scrap of me is modern, down to Venns' cami-knickers that you wouldn't let me talk about.
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Lady-Cricketer from cap to shoes--short skirt, knickers, belt, blouse, gloves, and all the rest of it.
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But he--he, the usurper, he, the guilty one--had changed from his low-necked shirt and blue serge jacket and knickers into a kind of evening costume, original, I should say, to himself, or copied from some stage child, or Christmas Annual.