QUOTES WITH «BREECHES»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
breeches.
To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREECHES»
Discover the use of
breeches in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
breeches and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Struggle for the
Breeches: Gender and the Making of the ...
Winner of the British Council Prize in the Humanities of the North American Conference on British Studies, Clark's study demolishes the myth of domestic bliss before industrialism and dissects the shifting politics of working class culture.
2
Pandora's
Breeches: Women,Science and Power in the Enlightenment
Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress.
3
Bold in her
breeches: women pirates across the ages
Presents a social and historical survey of female piracy, from 480 B.C. to contemporary accounts
Jo Stanley, Anne Chambers, Dian H. Murray, 1995
4
Breeches: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations RekindlingIn everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
5
Wearing the
Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage
"Wearing the Breeches" explores the theater's most celebrated transvestite: the antebellum breeches actress.
Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, 2000
6
Buckskin Dresses and Pumpkin
Breeches: Colonial Fashions ...
Looks at the different modes of dress in America in the colonial period, from the garments and accessories worn by different Native American groups to the fashions at the time of the American Revolution.
7
Icelandic Folktales and Legends
People who wanted to gather money that would never fail them used to get
themselves breeches called Old Nick's Breeches, or sometimes also Lappish
Breeches (as Lapps are famous wizards), or Money Breeches, Corpse Breeches,
...
8
Red Head and Whistle
Breeches
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Ellis Parker Butler, 2009
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Little Leather
Breeches, and Other Southern Rhymes: Being a ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Ten Breeches, on the contrary, retorted with a sarcasm upon his antagonist, who
was somewhat of an arid, dry-boned habit ; he remarked, that as to the circulation
of the blood being necessary to existence, Mynheer Tough Breeches was a ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREECHES»
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breeches is used in the context of the following news items.
'The Tempest' review: Ron Cephas Jones leads free Classical …
Decked out in doofus-y breeches, Merchant delivers kersplatting somersaults, Jay Z-inspired shoutouts about “99 problems” and drunken ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Rants from the Hill: Such Sweet Sorrow
Act three of The Comedy of Errors contains my favorite of these Elizabethan breeches burners: “A man may break a word with you, sir; and ... «High Country News, Jul 15»
Bring on the dancing horses
Hannah is immaculately outfitted in a brown tailcoat, bicorn-style hat, white buckskin breeches, white suede gloves, black riding boots with ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
Kim Phillips: Happy birthday: America at 239
I always imagined a group of like-minded men in white wigs and Sunday-go-to-meeting breeches at a friendly gathering munching on cookies ... «Denton Record Chronicle, Jul 15»
An emperor's carriage, a poet's wager, and a hangman's revenge
But before Hannington had the shop, it belonged to Tommy Nightingale, glover and breeches maker, who manufactured the Prince of Wales's ... «Brighton & Hove Independent, Jul 15»
Tonga: King Tupou VI crowned as new king
Some in the congregation sported bicorn hats and silk breeches. Others wore black ostrich feathers. Or swords. Or three-piece suits. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
My Turn: A peek at pocket change through the centuries
... to attach the pouches to the clothing itself, and tailors began to sew pocket bags into the seams of men's breeches, and then into their coats. «Long Beach Press Telegram, Jul 15»
Crowded house: are you super vigilant?
Letting agents and property managers need to be vigilant for signs of tenancy agreement breeches, especially in a country where the ... «Estate Agent Today, Jul 15»
Royal household to enjoy 'Wear What You Like' day
Palace insiders are said to be overjoyed at the chance to dress down for the day, with one anonymous employee tweeting 'No breeches, ... «NewsBiscuit, Jul 15»
In the days when a pair of tow breeches acted as a thermometer
"A pair of tow breeches was somewhat like a thermometer. They, however, went down and up according to wet and dry weather, and not ... «Crossville Chronicle, Jul 15»
