How To Use breeched In A Sentence
- Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
- “Your argument is illogical,” I cried, “if the girl is jealous, it is because she has given herself more completely: her exclusiveness is the other side of her devotion and tenderness; she wants to do everything for you, to be with you and help you in every way, and in case of illness or poverty or danger, you would find how much more she had to give than your red-breeched soldier.” Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
- Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
- The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the The Scarlet Letter
- Panurge the calf, Panurge the whiner, Panurge the brayer, would it not become thee much better to lend us here a helping hand than to lie lowing like a cow, as thou dost, sitting on thy stones like a bald-breeched baboon? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- My part was smaller but well written, and my breeched dancing much anticipated and well clapped. Exit the Actress
- Young boys wore skirts with doublets or back-fastening bodices until they were breeched at six to eight.
- So in all grades are there various matters of taste which become extravagance if rushed into by persons unbreeched for the occasion. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
- As Lionel Lambourne points out notice the little boy in a frock who had not yet reached the age to be 'breeched'. Archive 2008-04-01
- The tsunami was 46 ft. high and breeched the 19 ft. seawall that was meant to protect the Fukushima plant. Steven Cohen: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe and Governor Andrew Cuomo's Policy to Close Indian Point
