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"Petticoated" Quotes from Famous Books

... ago, when in Vienna, I had had a similar feeling of awe and reverence in looking at the peasant-women, in from the country on their business at the market for the day. Old hags many of them were, dried and brown and wrinkled, kerchiefed and short-petticoated, with thick wool stockings on their bony shanks, stumping through the glittering thoroughfares, looking neither to the right nor the left, bent on duty, envying nothing, humble-hearted, remote;—and yet at bottom, when you came to think of it, bearing ...

— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James

... children went up and down the street. I even saw two white-petticoated girls climbing the rocks of Cove Redoubt to get a peep at "Princess Victoria"—otherwise "Bloody Mary." It was a day of peace, but every one believes it to be the last. To-night an attack is confidently expected. The Boers are ...

— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson

... make a brave show this morning, and the little petticoated Narcissus Cyclamineus in the lower rock-garden (surely Narcissus ought to have been a girl!) begins to 'take the winds of March with beauty.' I am expecting visitors, and hope that mulching will benefit the Yellow Pottebakkers, ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... annoy the petticoated and trousered prudes that one met at every turn in the town. And then, when you met ...

— Pillars of Society • Henrik Ibsen

... try, for I was determined not to be beaten by these long-bearded, long-petticoated men; and the next trial ...

— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... John a Cleeve curtly, and stepped past him into the hangar. About fifty men stood packed there in a steam of breath around the guns—the most of them Canadians and British militiamen, with a sprinkling of petticoated sailors. ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... just as soon as he got alone again with us two women he began backing and filling as badly as ever. I believe Mr. Lenox is right, and that Julius is just petticoated to death between us." ...

— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott

Words linked to "Petticoated" : clothed