The 241 occurrences of knickers
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Spreading mischief and scattering ban, Screening 'neath "knickers" his shanks of a goat, And setting the wildest rumours afloat, To set the fool-mob a-shiver.
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"If you'll excuse me, Mister Raymond," he said, "if you'll excuse me, as one who's known you ever since you went out of knickers, sir, I'd venture to warn you as a good friend, against a lot that's being said in Bridetown and Bridport, too.
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He was wearing his first small suit and what he gained in dignity from knickers and three pockets he lost in comfort.
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"And if a yellow-jacket lights on your sock and starts to crawl up under the leg of your knickers, you won't stir?"
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The wasp alighted on the red, mosquito-bitten, naked skin above the top of the Child's sock, and then, sure enough, started to go exploring up under the leg of his knickers.
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"There now!" and Nat went off into kinks; "he has to wear knickers to look cute.
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The other lad jumped to his feet, revealing, to Hugh's surprise, golf knickers.
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She assured Hugh that Sanford men looked awfully smooth in their knickers and white flannels; in fact, she said the whole college seemed jake to her.
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It may be HARDING had some flickers Of CLEVELAND'S spirit whilst in knickers, And COX while yet a puling babe Dreamed tiny dreams of LINCOLN (ABE); And both, although they knew they'd catch it, Cut fruit-trees with a little hatchet; Both may have been, when glorious youths, Too proud to fight or tell untruths.
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"I'm not wearing any knickers," she continued, loud enough that he was sure that the receptionist heard.
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Though as old and as tall as William, he was dressed in an embroidered tunic, very short knickers, and white socks.
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He wore a little sky-blue tunic, with small, tight knickers of white; his little legs and feet were bare, round his waist was a crimson girdle, and at his side was attached a toy sword.
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Orion was also in his pretty dress, with his tiny sword and belt, his blue jacket and little white knickers.
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Following the direction of her sister's eyes, Quenrede looked through a veil of wind-blown hair, to see, standing among the stones, a stranger of the opposite sex, garbed in tweed knickers and leather gaiters.
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For instance: Shy spinster schoolma'ams, the essence of modesty at home, catch the spirit of adventure and appear swaggering along in the snuggest of knickers.
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Jack was eating a slice of bread and jam; Dick had Babs--somewhat in a soiled condition from watering the garden--on his back; Charlie, the incorrigible, with a tear in his knickers and a brimless hat on the back of his curly head, was leaping about like an excited kangaroo.
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He was a young man, in puttees and knickers and Norfolk jacket, and he was smoking a cigarette.
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"An extremely pretty girl she is, too, with her frock-coat coming to her knees, her top-boots coming to the coat, and now and then, when the wind blows, a glimpse of loose knickers.
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The French infants, boys and girls up to any age, are all dressed in navy knickers and jerseys and look so jolly.
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She was in her campaign kit of knickers, with a long rain-coat and a big knitted cap, and an entrancing boy she made.
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My occupation till what seemed like midnight was unravelling rope, and with this I padded out my knickers inside, and my shirt as well, though it was a clumsy job, for I could not see what I was doing.
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I must have been a weird sight as I stepped ashore, tied up in rags, stuffed out with oakum, wrapped in the bloody skins of dogs, with no hat, coat, or gloves besides, and only a pair of short knickers.
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Abroad women chauffeurs became almost as common in the war as men; the public in Paris and London refused to regard the appearance of a woman on the streets in cap, "knickers" and puttees or heavy boots as unusual, and in need they in many instances not only drove "taxi," but guided ambulances in the hospital service.
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Briscoe, a man of wealth and leisure, portly and rubicund, was in hunting togs, with gaiters, knickers, jacket, and negligee shirt, while Bayne, with no trace of the disorder incident to a long journey by primitive methods of transportation, was as elaborately groomed and as accurately costumed in his trig, dark brown, business suit as if he had just stepped from the elevator of the sky-scraper where his offices as a broker were located.
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"Deary me, but it's like old times to see Master Christopher and Miss Elisabeth having tea with us again," exclaimed Mrs. Bateson, after Caleb had asked a blessing; "and it seems but yesterday, Mrs. Hankey, that they were here talking over Mrs. Perkins's wedding--your niece Susan as was--with Master Christopher in knickers, and Miss Elisabeth's hair down."
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The following quotation from the syllabus referred to above is worth making:-- "_A Suitable Dress for Girls._--A simple dress for girls suitable for taking physical exercises or games consists of a tunic, a jersey or blouse, and knickers.
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The tunic and knickers may be made of blue serge, and, if a blouse is worn, it should be made of some washing material.
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The knickers, with their detachable washing linen, should replace all petticoats.
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For the tunic some 2 to 2-1/2 yards are usually required, and for the knickers about 1-1/2 to 2 yards.
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"I'm not to wear my knickers any more," Caroline said, with a gulp, "and my bathing suit has to have a skirt.
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You can't beat the game by wearing knickers, you know.
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You can't wear knickers until you're one of the boys, and you can't be one of the boys until you wear knickers.
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Charley took off his leather shoes, donned the woolen slippers, and over these pulled the sealskin boots which met his knickers, and with a buckskin draw string tied the boot tops just below the knees.
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It was rather a motley group who entered: Irene as a nun in waterproof and hood; Agnes as a Red Cross Nurse; Esther a Turk, with a towel for a turban; Joan a sportsman in her gymnasium knickers; Sheila, in a tricolor cap, represented France; and Lorna was draped with the Union Jack; Jess with a plaid arranged as a kilt made a sturdy Highlander; Mary was an Irish colleen; while Delia, in a wrapper ornamental with fringes of tissue paper, stood for "Carnival."
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The performers were charmingly dressed in the old native costumes of the country, the men in soft white shirts, green sleeveless velvet coats, red plush knickers, silk stockings and shoes with scarlet bows, while the girls wore gay skirts, striped sashes, lace fichus, and aprons, and gold beads round their shapely throats.
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_He is wearing a tourist costume of Norfolk jacket and knickers, and is a keen faced, hard, angular looking personage._) JOHN.
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Nick, in the course of his kaleidoscopic career, had been a caddie at thirteen in torn shirt and flapping knickers.
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For Florian, at thirteen, a spindle-legged errand-boy in over-size knickers, a cold sore on his lip, and shoes chronically in need of resoling, had started to work for the great sporting goods store of Inverness & Heath.
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She wore tweed knickers.
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And doesn't Turly look sweet in his velvet knickers?
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"Why, when you took my old place on the gate you was still wearin' knickers, wasn't you?
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While the gorgeous cavalcade was still some distance away, Motahuana came running out of the house, babbling the most earnest and urgent entreaties that Harry would be graciously pleased to enter the house forthwith, as it was not meet that the members of the Inca's bodyguard should set eyes upon their sovereign lord until the latter should be attired in the robes of his regal rank; and Harry, already painfully aware of the dilapidated condition of the jacket and knickers in which he had accomplished the march from the survey camp, fully agreeing with him, hastily retreated to the interior of the building and, standing well back from the window, where he was concealed in the deep shadow, interestedly watched the movements of his regiment as it went into camp on a little plateau at the rear of the house.
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costumes, composed of the aforesaid knickers, and a short tunic, girt round the waist with a blue sash, to represent the inevitable house colour.
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Harry's voice was beginning to croak, which, taken together with a dawning passion for socks, ties, and brilliantine, was an unmistakable sign of growing up; Russell was preternaturally thin and looked all arms and legs; while Tim had forsaken knickers for full-fledged trousers, and resented any attempt at petting as an insufferable offence.
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Ruth and Mollie were kept busy teaching the babies and making clothes for the family--cutting down Trix's dress to do duty for Betty; laboriously planning little pairs of knickers out of trousers worn at the knees; patching, darning, covering-up, hiding over, turning and twisting; making up something out of nothing, with the lordly sum of fifteen pounds a year each for dress and pocket-money alike.
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"And Henry 'll be a little page in white satin knickers holding up the bride's train," said the mate, spluttering at the picture he had conjured up.
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p. 398 _Nickers._ Or knickers, marbles generally made of baked clay.
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Well come on Salteena he cried and dont be nervus I will get you a pair of knickers tomorrow.
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Let women-folk prate as they will of a boy Who is heedless of knickers and shirt; I hold that the badge of a young fellow's joy Are cheeks that are covered with dirt.
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They shone like patent leather just where well-worn breeches do, But the cloth in certain portions was considered good as new, And I know that I was envied by full many a richer lad For the horizontal pockets that those good old knickers had.
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He sensed our lack of interest in the wines of the Midi, and, helped by the Artist's checked knickers and slender cane, set forth a bottle of old Scotch.
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"I think you're wrong, Mary Rose," began Aunt Kate, while Uncle Larry put down the colored supplement that he had been holding out so enticingly to look at his niece, who appeared smaller than ever in the shabby blouse and shrunken knickers.
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Pink Knickers and the Desperate Ship.
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On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and the distant lake, was a flagpole, before which paced an ebon sentry in a uniform of white knickers, tunic and lancer cap, red faced.
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Camp rules were simple--no clothing allowed except short blue knickers and gray flannel shirts, no shoes, stockings, or caps except on Sundays.
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The knickers were not particularly successful, the legs frequently being carried so high up that there was no space into which the body could be inserted.
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I had also advocated a removable insert of sheet steel in a pocket on the breast of the tunic, this plate to be kept in the trenches and inserted on advancing; and a lobster-tail steel knee-piece in the knickers.
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Since no saint apparently ever wore trousers, or appeared to care about football knickers, I never supposed that they could be the same flesh as myself.
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Plus four golf knickers, let down, make admirable wedding trousers for a short man, and many are the old college blazers dyed black and doing duty as natty pea-jackets.
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Jack was five, and wore a blue tunic with an exceedingly long-waisted belt, beneath which could be discerned the hems of abbreviated knickers.
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Around the jut of rook appeared a bicycle girl, a golf girl, and a youth in knickers having his stockings laid in correct folds below the knee.
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Erect, alert, in his woolen jersey and the briefest of knickers, the child took his stand in the centre, where, with youthful optimism, he sought to take within his purview the numberless exits for the panic-stricken quarry.
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But she fled out again from the sight of Miss Poppy in her yellow hair and green knickers with green-lace frills.
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If the young gentlemen liked to peep round the curtain when the young lady was in her knickers: oh, well, she rather roundly told them off, perhaps, but nobody minded.
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The fact that ladies wore knickers and black silk stockings thrilled nobody, any more than grease-paint or false moustaches thrilled.
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Straight ahead of him on the trail, and coming directly toward him, moved a figure in knickers and belted tweed.
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In Hungary a boy wears white Blouses, his knickers fit him tight, He has top boots of patent leather, And in his hat a peacock's feather.
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Gents' ready-to-wear Cycling and Golf Knickers.
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She wore one of Cyril's sailor jackets, and a pair of his serge knickers, and few looking at her casually, would have insulted her with the supposition that she was a mere girl.
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The Dean, who was a genial soul, and who, with his generous embonpoint and his knickers, looked at present a little like Mr. Pickwick, regarded him affectionately.
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What would this young man have thought if at that moment he could have had a glimpse of the fair Judy dressed as a court gentleman in lavender satin knickers, a long cape of purple velvet, an immense cavalier hat with a great plume and over her shapely mouth a flaring yellow mustachio?
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His once white jacket now was soiled, and one leg of his knickers was loose, from his scramble up the bank.
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He wore a straw hat with a neat pugaree protecting the back of his neck, and his dress was a Norfolk jacket and knickers in heather mixture.
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Tim went away with the idea (perfectly correct) that the stolid-looking youth's hands that had gripped his neck and the seat of his knickers were very strong, and another impression that even Victor would not have stood an earthly chance against such a fellow.
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Yes, I must wear knickers.
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When I leave school I mean to go on a farm, and wear corduroy knickers and leggings and thick boots all the time.
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Betty was stitching red stripes down the sides of her gymnasium knickers, being determined to appear in the nearest approach to a Zouave uniform that she could muster, though a little doubtful of Miss Norton's approval of male attire.
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It was not in that pocket, nor in the one on the other side, nor in his knickers.
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Or if over they failed to lie moribund, dauntless the heroes Stooped down to impossible putts for a half or a win, Stooped down in voluminous knickers and all sorts of queer hose And stuffed the ball in, Like American packers of pig-meat, hard home to the floor of the tin.
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True, we were never fain to cling to these; but, standing there on the King's high-road, clad in football knickers and thin jerseys, sun-burnt and dishevelled, we were conscious of a sudden immense embarrassment.
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John set his bare feet wide (he was only in his shirt and knickers) and eyed the man whom his father had "downed" with a kind of silent swagger.
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His knickers were open at the knee, and the black stockings below them were wrinkled slackly down his thin legs, being tied loosely above the calf with dirty white strips of cloth instead of garters.
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Or you might put your "knickers" in the bag, and wear the coat and waistcoat with long trousers.
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The present fashionable costume for cycling consists of tweed knickers and short lounge jacket of same material, brown leather or linen waistcoat, colored shirt, with white turn-down collar and club tie, golf stockings, and low-quartered tan wheeling shoes.
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The English and Scotch golf dress, however, is sack coat, knickers without leather extensions, and a plain tweed shooting cap.
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For golf club evening functions, black silk or lisle thread stockings and pumps and black knickers would be appropriate dress.
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There'll be much closer problems than that, I imagine, before Dinkie is out of his knickers.
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Later on, when performing, they would be entitled to a celluloid collar, satinette knickers and pumps.
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The sight of Pa training his star made the apprentices shake in their knickers.
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Before his boyish little girls, before his own particular troupe, the fat freaks trembled in their knickers!
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Pa hurried them to their dressing-room to get into their knickers, while he took off his jacket and turned up his trousers, so as to run better.
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No bridge for you tonight--early to bed and tomorrow morning you'll all start out in your natty knickers and short kilts to murder things that will fall in bloody feathery heaps at your feet.
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The little boy was also in a sorry plight, for he had a scratch across his cheek, and his knickers were cut through at the knees; while the big boy, in other words, the man, looked the most untidy, the most fatigued, the most travel-stained of all.
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Straight ahead of him on the trail, and coming directly toward him, moved a figure in knickers and belted tweed.
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My silk blouses were much admired, and when they investigated far enough to discover that I wore silk "knickers," their wonder knew no bounds.
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So, as he was looking for a nondescript boy in knickers and jacket and cap and heavy boots, it was little wonder that he looked in vain among the crowd of travellers who poured out of the big train on the Junction platform, and he was proportionately surprised when a young lady with red-brown hair and a sweet face touched him on the arm.
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His knickers had dried upon him, but his coat was still very damp.
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He was in a hurry to be off, and in a minute Harry was arrayed in the frock over the knickers, and the two went downstairs hand in hand, just as they had come at Easter-time.
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He had always called her mother and kissed her, since the days when he had worn knickers and been Gertrude's chum.