How To Use Britches In A Sentence
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This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
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Harry Reid reminds me of a constipated “old-maid” in britches.
Think Progress » Drudge’s Non-Story: Reid Has Criticized The Patriot Act For Years
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The King would awaken and the nobles of the realm would compete to take away his chamberpot, remove his nightshirt, and dress him with his britches.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Status Symbols and the American Express Black Card
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Ruffs and britches disappeared long ago, and there isn't much to distinguish a Balinese from a Siamese today except a wispy fringe on the underbelly and a meek plume of a tail.
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Is it the music or the snakeskin spandex britches?
Some Public Service Announcements
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Page 171 crosses his "galluses" (leather) before and behind to keep his "britches" on him, very thin visaged, yellow "pumpkin" skin, tough and wrinkled.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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So mistakenly they went and bought me armfuls of tropical kit: solar topees, boots to keep mosquitoes out at night, riding britches, God knows what.
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Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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Her name is hyphenated and her britches are big so she's announced her candidacy for mayor of St. Mary's Point, Minnesota.
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`I want to work in a circus with trained animals and a high trapeze, where I can swing upside down and show the whole world my britches.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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*Some old timers add linsey-woolsey or cotton britches winter as the last one, meaning the day you can stop wearing the long underwear.
Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden
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Another way of telling us, I guess, not to get too big for our britches.
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One account of Pierre Vigny makes reference to his dapperness and specifically mentions his silk britches
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That fact hardly caught the military brass stooped over $ 1, 000 toilet seats with their britches down.
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They would then halt, go aside and put on their shoes, while their barefooted gallants, with tow and cotton shirts and "britches," stood in the road till their return.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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Talkin 'like the Franklins and all the big quality folks, you lamper-jawed, cat-hamed puke,' says I. 'You nuver hearn yer master call' um any thing but britches, nur you sha'n't, 'says I.' I'll larn you to puke up big quality words, you varmunt, 'says I; and I larruped him well, I tell you.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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Nearly breathless from laughing, she told me she'd been reaching for some canned pineapple and, because she'd lost so much weight, her "britches" had fallen down!
Tennessean.com Dickson
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There was a full blouse with a tunic that went over top, and a pair of plain cotton britches.
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Prince Alvin was wearing a brilliant black, velvet tailcoat and black britches that looked stunning with his golden crown.
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I often feel like I'm an 18th century aristocrat arriving at Lord Monck's house for dinner, a dark-coated wag or bounder wearing the latest in britches and moleskin cape.
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His "britches" are dressed buckskin, tight as the skin, with sole-leather buttons sewed on with a leather thong.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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Is it the music or the snakeskin spandex britches?
Some Public Service Announcements
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There was a full blouse with a tunic that went over top, and a pair of plain cotton britches.
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Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter.
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Oh, all right, then, if you're too finicky to search a dead man's britches.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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But where the octet's instrumental skill radiates the most heat is in "The Box Set" and "Paddy Ryan's Dream/Blue Britches/Gan Ainm," the latter medley featuring some exotic percussion (cajon, darbuka, caixixi) and the hard-shoe stepdancing of Bernadette Flanagan and Ms. Dudasik.
What's Irish for 'Girl Power?'
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“Leather Britches”—unshelled beans that were traditionally threaded together and hung to dry at which point they look like little britches on a clothesline—can be cooked slowly and can stay on the stove for several days, he says, and be eaten for lunch, supper, and lunch again the next day.
One Big Table
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“It’s gotta be jarring to see somebody dressed up in a billowy linen shirt, drop-front hemp britches, and a wide woven sash, with a big tuque on his head, driving an old, beat-up Buick Century,” he said.
One Big Table
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His ponytail, usually held with a strip of leather or cheap ribbon, was now pulled together with fabric to match his doublet and white britches.
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Patrick Wilshere stood below this scene dressed in riding britches, boots and a loose, collarless white shirt undone at the neck.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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They wore trousers or pants as opposed to the knee-britches of their social superiors.
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Some of the boys wore caps, or little white hats with the crown pushed in all around, and, though it wasn't muddy and didn't look as though it were going to rain, each one of them had his "britches" turned up, and that puzzled the mountain boy sorely; but no matter why they did it, he wouldn't have to turn his up, for they didn't come to the tops of his shoes.
The Heart of the Hills
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All of those effete young men flitting about in their blue waistcoats and yellow britches crying ‘woe is me’ before offing themselves?
How To Be Good « Tales from the Reading Room
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But where the octet's instrumental skill radiates the most heat is in "The Box Set" and "Paddy Ryan's Dream/Blue Britches/Gan Ainm," the latter medley featuring some exotic percussion (cajon, darbuka, caixixi) and the hard-shoe stepdancing of Bernadette Flanagan and Ms. Dudasik.
What's Irish for 'Girl Power?'
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Britches Cries" is dedicated to the macaco monkey Britches, that in an American scientific research laboratory, to both days to be born, separated it of their mother and they sewed the eyelids to him to verify if the induced blindness produces cerebral injuries, putting under it simultaneously interminable sessions of ultrasounds emitted by great helmets tied to its small head by fabrics, all it almost greater than its own head.
Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » May
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I think I'll stay with my Ballard cloth britches. $400 for a pair of bibs is out of my league.
Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
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too big for his britches
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I suppose we got our old fashioned expression "britches" from that.
Protecting Our Daughters
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He's too big for his britches, always thinking he knows best, quick to sass his elders and a hot head.
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Up until now, I have mainly watched Jeremy's "britches" roles, where he "wears a variety of hats from various periods" (was I think how he put it himself?).
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The Greystones garden was like a jungle, parts of it as impenetrable as the Britches.
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Then the sniff became a baritone groan, and when I looked, so help me it was Custer himself, with his hand to his brow, bedewing his britches with manly tears.
Isabelle
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But they shouldn't get too big for their britches just yet - they could find themselves peddling CDs on the streets of LA just like one of their predecessors.
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If we're talking here about that film lowering some big shot's britches and exposing him, it's a mighty dangerous situation.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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He wears half-armor of high quality: a well-fitted cuirass on his upper body, and protective britches of the latest design with light steel plates on his thighs.4 His helmet is no ordinary morion, or crude iron pot of the kind that we associate with Spanish conquistadors and English colonists.
Champlain's Dream
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Unknown to the stranger the condition of his "britches" had probably given him his credit rating with Old Coonrod, for he held that patches upon the front of trousers, if the seat were whole, were decorations of honor, showing the man had torn them doing something, going forward.
Sergeant York And His People
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Later that afternoon, he is back in his £400 custom-made wig, moleskin britches and make-up to give a reading at a travel trade fair.
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Men wore stockings with britches before women ever wore stockings.
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Prince Alvin was wearing a brilliant black, velvet tailcoat and black britches that looked stunning with his golden crown.
