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"Barelegged" Quotes from Famous Books

... long whistle. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed, "that just is an all-fired big pile of money t' be wasted on a lot of barelegged heathen critters like these, who don't know th' Ten Commandments by sight, an' who've never even heard of a cocktail! D' you know what I'm goin' t' do, Rayburn, when I realize on this investment? I'm goin' t' buy th' Old Colony Railroad, just for th' sake of bein' able t' bounce ...

— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier

... barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... all," he said, after an interval of reflection. "This much will I yield. Go, Sir Walter, and say to the governor that all the grace I can give him is this. Let him send me six of the chief burgesses of the town, who shall come out bareheaded, barefooted, and barelegged, clad only in their shirts, and with halters around their necks, with the keys of the tower and castle in their hands. These must yield themselves fully to my will. The others ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... the other, with connecting passages. The bunches of grapes were piled in great heaps in the higher of the two, and then it was great fun for the boys and girls and youths and maidens to jump barefooted and barelegged among the purple clusters, and trample them until the foaming red juice ran down into the lower of the stone chambers, where it was taken up with gourd dippers and poured into skins. The youngsters would come home with ...

— Hebrew Life and Times • Harold B. Hunting

Words linked to "Barelegged" : unclothed