How To Use Breech In A Sentence

The extractors eject the cartridge case and retain the breechblock in the fully open position.
Stripping off her leather breeches and boots, and her tunic, Isabella slid into the sudsy, herbal scented water of the tub, submersing her body up to her chin.
He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
Lowering the operating lever dropped the breechblock and extracted the spent cartridge.
The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow. Sharpe's Waterloo

She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps.
He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
In addition to new breechblocks and hammers, the older extractor was replaced with a newer design.
They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these.
It was, indeed, a tunic and breeches, in the emerald and gold of the Warriors, in immaculate condition, clean and pressed.
Captain Brownson had noticed the incident and he sent word to delay opening the breechblock until all danger of explosion had passed. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'. If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side....
And bagged in breeches, clinging round his side, — The Age Reviewed
Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks. Can You Forgive Her?
I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him. The Shadow of the Torturer
His beautifully sculpted body was sheathed in tan breeches and a white lined shirt, half opened at the neck.
The elaborate tassels on the ends of his red breechclout reached below his knees when he stood.
Black is self-explanatory but some black Chows have silver shadings in tail or breechings.
With that, I put my hand into my breech, (being my best pantry) and I gave him a loaf, which he received with many thanks, and said, that if ever he could requit it, he would. The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor
We can also protect against hull breeches and heat,’ Dann ripostes.
They were trained by handspikes with the aid of side-tackle and their recoil was limited by a stout rope, called the breeching, the ends of which were secured to the sides of the ship. Marvels of Modern Science
His sweat would've soaked through her breeches, but she sat sort of side-saddle, and her legs were facing the inside of the arena.
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
Blood Thorn—with his pom hairstyle, his Uzachile-cut breechcloth, and his curious star tattoos—was a constant source of attention. Fire The Sky
They were dressed like pages with black breeches, a doublet and a flet hat trimmed with black velvet. — 80s movie pitch of the day
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
They were still a breech-cloth people, wearing this rag of barbarism as the unmistakable evidence of their condition; and the family was in the syndyasmian or pairing form, with separation at any moment at the option of either party. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
“A glass of rosolio, a fresh horse, and a pair of breeches,” said he, “and quickly — I am behind my time, and must be off.” Tales of a Traveller
On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Stainless steel six-guns are subject to this as well; the breech-face just gets shinier as it wears.
The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches. Bomber
Finally, while Tash and Marcia explored an interesting box of hats, the three boys appeared in front of them in the costumes of 19th century French counts; breeches, high-necked shirts and velvet tailcoats.
So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad. Fiancée
All he held was the barrel and part of the breech.
The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools. Inside the Whale
She had walked up with a Mr. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, brisk-looking farmer, in breeches and top-boots, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to roost among the woods. Roughing It in the Bush
Heavy bust encased in silk blouse, heavy thighs bulging in knee breeches, fat calves in lovat wool stockings. Death of a Gossip
This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket.
a polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly refined English or American female will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. Vanity Fair
The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
“Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.” George Washington’s First War
Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket.
The barrel is bored out and threaded at breech and muzzle to accept a 17-cal. barrel liner.
Maintenance is likewise the same as other bolt-action muzzleloaders since the 10ML-II now has a removable breech plug.
Brad noted that Rimov was staring at the intensity slide visible on the breechblock of his sheathed weapon. The Universe — or Nothing
A cart has no brakes, so the horse is fitted with breechings around the hind legs to allow him to slow the vehicle.
On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for £2 5_s_. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for £1 Samuel Johnson
The advantages of double barrel over the old single barrel breech loading books is numerous.
The new cover showed Penelope Gates dressed in tweed hacking jacket, knee breeches, lovat stockings and brogues, standing on a heathery hillside, looking down at the village of Drim. Death of a Scriptwriter
He was dressed in burgundy velvet breeches, waistcoat and frock, with a silk and lace white shirt.
The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills, and Trillium recurvatum.
After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
She came upon a boy, breech-clouted and bare, like a copper god. CHAPTER 2
“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
Among the items we find a green half-trimmed frock and breeches, lined with silk; a queen's blue dress suit; a half dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin; a pair of silk stocking breeches, and another pair of bloom color. Oliver Goldsmith
Agnolo, at the moment when he moved to do this, let fly such a volley from his breech, that it was far more effectual than the assafetida. LXIV
Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping. A Man Driven to Distraction
Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons.
He was a tall man, with hair that was more red than brown, and he was dressed in a shirt of dowlas, leather breeches, and coarse plantation-made shoes and stockings. Audrey
The corpse lay facedown in the mud, his bottle green coat twisted up around his chest, mud and blood spattering his buckskin breeches, a spent pistol clutched in his cold hand. Earl of Durkness
Having got the drugget he folded it in two, and after taking off the breechband and pad, covered Mukhorty with it. Master and Man
The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches. Bomber
Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
He was dressed simply, in black breeches and a white shirt that was open at the neck.
His breeches were an expensive black velvet, but his shirt was a common white cotton with a neat and fashionable ruffle.
His buckskin breeches, usually immaculate, were scraped and dusty, as were his boots. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Breechings for all guns are to be made of the best hemp, of three-stranded rope, shroud-laid, and soft; and for smooth-bore guns not to measure less than seven and a half nor more than eight inches in the coil, excepting those for IX-inch guns, which are to measure nine and a half inches, and for XI-inch ten and a half inches. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
I remember what she looked like perfectly: every piece of fur standing out in sharp relief, brushed to a glossy sheen, her breeches green and gold.
At the fifth round the breech block opened with some difficulty, and an examination showed that the resistance resulted from the diametral enlargement of the rear plate. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
She much preferred her breeches or underclothing to the stiff dresses she wore at home.
In the bore, pent in by the polished breechblock, is a cartridge which has failed in its duty. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a velvet gowne, and at a bridal in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goes in a pounced dublet and a paire of embroidered hosen, the the Cities to weare a fries Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the The Arte of English Poesie
In operation, when the lever is lowered, the trigger is tripped, dropping the hammer to a safe position against the breech block.
Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets.
--- Be kind to him, my good breechless friend, and I will requite you well. '' A Legend of Montrose
Locking lugs on the bolt are removed, turning it into a striker, while the breech is sealed with a breech plug.
Aboard ship, where recoil space was limited, the "kick" of the gun was checked by a heavy rope called a breeching, shackled to the side of the vessel Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
Indian breechclouts and legging pants finished his mismatched uniform of style and fealty.
The gun is run in and laid square under the housing-bolt, the bed and quoin removed, the muzzle elevated and secured as in the housing position; then, after un-keying and throwing back the cap-squares, the breech is bowsed up clear of the carriage by means of the train-tackle, hooked in the eye of a runner, the block of which hooks in an eye-bolt in the beam over the gun. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
In no time at all, he was dressed in form-fitting fawn-coloured breeches, a white linen shirt and a black riding coat, and ignored the black silk cravat Vincent laid out for him.
For a moment, for just so long as it needs to stuff a cartridge into a breech-loader, the lama hesitated. Kim
Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
This caused delay of several days, but once the new breechblocks were completed one by one the guns were rushed to use.
Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping. A Man Driven to Distraction
My second son was breech and my doctor recommended a planned C-section.
Luc stood facing the altar; hands in his breeches pockets, he looked up at the oriel window high above. ON A WICKED DAWN
He was formally attired in brown breeches and a white silk shirt accompanied by a deep blue waistcoat.
A grand weapon was a genuine “flint” of old “Joe” Manton; with plenty of metal, a hard hitter, and often equally serviceable when converted into a breech-loader. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
The breeching along the thigh is long and thick.
He was formally attired in brown breeches and a white silk shirt accompanied by a deep blue waistcoat.
As his wares were textiles, it was fitting that his breeches were made of something that looked expensive, as was his jewellery: silver filigree bracelets and armlets.
James Boswell is the only real woman writing at the moment, and that’s just because she wants to get inside Johnson’s breeches. The blue haze of distance
She's a game old bird, though; dashingly dressed in sensible breeches and stout walking boots, she's off down the fairway to confront the offending husband.
In his arms he clutched a hand made stuffed animal that matched the soft green cotton breeches he wore and clashed horribly with the crème nightshirt that hung to his knees.
Walking over it immediately conjures up images of Greg Wise in breeches; enough to keep me smiling for the rest of the day. The concrete jungle's really going crazy
The footman in knee-breeches and powdered head, who had admitted us, led us without a word across the large hall, turned into a long corridor dimly-lit by tinted electric lamps, turned to the left, then to the right, then showed us into a small, comfortably-furnished room in which The Four Faces A Mystery
Yet its only luxury was the bottom of a breechloader brass cartridge, inlaid and flanked by the sharp incisors of the little Wabar, or mountain coney. The Land of Midian
You must also send me a fine cloth jockey coat of same colour with the wastecoat & breeches, lin'd with a fine shalloon of same colour & trim'd plain, onely a button with same sort of that with the wastecoat, but propor - tionably bigger. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
He was dressed in tan breeches with black boots to the knee.
There's two double centre-fire breech-loaders in the case," he said to himself, "and there's his revolver and his sword, besides that old hunting-knife in the shark's-skin case -- there's every temptation for a young man to do it. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
A specialized vocabulary described parts of harness fittings such as whiffletrees, reins, breechings, traces, collars, hames and pole straps.
She designed her costume to look like his in every way; except, in addition to her black leather breeches and boots, she wore a black velvet overskirt that parted up the center to reveal her shapely legs.
The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the The Scarlet Letter
Lord, but he was handsome in his profusion of blues—the dark blue coat of superfine, breeches of light blue silk, and his beaver hat dyed blue. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
That way, because # .22 caliber long rifle cartridge is rim-fire ignited, the plunger, when released by the trigger, would both fire the piece and act as a breechblock. Will
Large brass hoops were in his ears; he was naked to the waist, wearing simply leggings, moccasins and a breechclout. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The vest was cut from a damask brocade and the breeches from bengaline, the latter which was dyed to match the vest fabric.
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
Henceforth Bentham always wore his green coat with scarlet lapels, scarlet waistcoat with gold lace, and white breeches.
It will thus be seen that two men with the breech-loader scored six points more than the fifteen men with the Enfield.
This also allows the barrel to be cleaned from the breech end; the receiver is also easier to clean.
He persisted in dressing, as in his youth, in black silk stockings, shoes with gold buckles, breeches of black poult-de-soie, and a black coat, adorned with the red rosette. Ursula
The field officers who opposed the breech-loaders saw their job as controlling the troops.
Raising the lever elevates the breech block back into shooting position.
My part was smaller but well written, and my breeched dancing much anticipated and well clapped. Exit the Actress
Travelers now arrive from all quarters, in cabriolets, in calashers, in the shabby "vettura," and in the elegant private carriage drawn by post-horses, and driven by postillions in the tightest possible deer-skin breeches, the smallest red coats, and the hugest jack-boots. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
So that, were I undertaking to discipline such a breechless mob, it were impossible for me to be understood; and if I were understood, judge ye, my lord, what chance I had of being obeyed among a band of half salvages, who are accustomed to pay to their own lairds and chiefs, allenarly, that respect and obedience whilk ought to be paid to commissionate officers. A Legend of Montrose
Our daughter was an undiagnosed feet first breech birth.
Young boys wore skirts with doublets or back-fastening bodices until they were breeched at six to eight.
Two of them are knocked down with the breech-loader, one dead, the other only wounded -- a third stopped by the muzzle-loader. Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
The recoil of the gun on firing, was often very violent, but it was limited by the stout rope called the breeching, which ran round the base of the gun, from each side of the port-hole, and kept it from running back more than its own length. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
First he transferred Eddie's ammunition to his own person, and such valuables and trinkets as he thought "maw" might be glad to have, then he removed the breechblock from The Mucker
THE image of a red-faced judge caught in scandalous circumstances in full wig and breeches is the stuff of music hall comedy. The Sun
An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
He took the tarpaulin from the breech and the tampion from the muzzle, cast off the lashings which secured it, and saw that the swivel moved freely in the socket and the trunnions freely in the crotch. Mr. Midshipman Easy
The implement employed at these rural reunions is rarely the breech-loader, or even the short gun. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
That's why they all look so good in frock coats and riding breeches. Times, Sunday Times
He ran unto the river Liffey, peeled off his breeches and jumped in, humecting thus his hairy skin.
He was dressed in boots, breeches and grey uniform shirt. Bomber
Although returning aristocrats tended to favor powdered hair and tight-fitting knee breeches in the old style, most middle-class men wore trousers or pantaloons and kept their hair in a natural style, whether tousled or à la Titus.
The breeches and jackets are being run up in a house in Cheltenham. Times, Sunday Times
The fashion of the time required men to wear at a ball white kerseymere breeches and silk stockings. Domestic Peace
In the back, I pull the two sides out so that the breechclout covers my bottom like a bathing suit.
-- Heave up with the roller handspike under the end of the bracket on the side on which the truck is to be removed; handspikemen pass inside the breeching and place their handspikes under the axletree as near the truck as possible, and, assisted by 5 and 6, lift the gun while the shellman removes the old truck and side-tackleman puts on new one. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
I found a pair of plain breeches and a linen shirt in a chest of drawers, along with the necessary undergarments.
He was formally attired in a silk jacket of dark purple damask, black velvet breeches, and an old-fashioned full-bottomed wig. The Thief Taker
His breeches were made of white shiny silk and so was his waistcoat.
Cate was perched high in a tree, clad in a loose men's shirt and riding breeches.
A few days before my baby was due, ultrasonography showed a previously unsuspected breech presentation, and attempts to turn the baby were unsuccessful.
He was stocky and dressed handsomely in his breeches and blouse.
After that he wore a breechclout, leggings, and moccasins. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
It represents a bagpiper wearing a short doublet, full, knee-length breeches with a prominent codpiece, shoes with narrow rounded toes, and a hemispherical, skullcap-like hat with a very narrow brim.
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,
Here is the mail shirt and coif you asked for, and two pair of heavy breeches as well.
He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. War and Peace
The girl's eyes lighted at the promise, and she relaxed a little as Tarma donned her closefitting breeches, shirt, and wrapped Shin'a'in jacket, covering the terrible scars. The Oathbound
He went in his court dress, consisting of a richly embroidered brown silk-velvet coat and short breeches, white satin vest with fancy colored embroidery, white silk stockings and pumps, wig, bagwig, cocked hat, and dress sword.
What made it worse, my eye was out, and Cutts 'luck was dead in - he brought off middle-pocket jennies that Joe Bennet wouldn't have looked at, missed easy hazards and had his ball roll all round the table for a cannon, and when he tried long pots as often as not he got a pair of breeches. The Sky Writer
For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a veluet gowne, and at a bridall in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered hosen, in the Citie to weare a frise Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the Sessions, and other ordinarie meetings and Commissions in the Countrey, so bedect with buttons and aglets of gold and such costly embroderies, as the poore plaine men of the Countrey called him (for his gaynesse) the golden knight. The Arte of English Poesie
Sometimes this pouch is carried in the folds of the breechcloth, which is the only pocket the Negrito possesses. Negritos of Zambales
Rifles became breech-loaders, then repeaters.
_Tin_, or rather _Thin_, Breeches; whence they infer that the original bearer of it was a poor but merry rogue, whose galligaskins were none of the soundest, and who, peradventure, may have been the author of that truly philosophical stanza: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
She had braided her hair, and dressed in breeches and tunic, her riding gloves tucked into her belt.
He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot. The Alhambra
Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches.
So when the midwife tried to break my waters he popped his head out of the engaged position in the pelvis and moved so he was transverse breech.
The Nermernuh had arrived in town in buckskins and breechclouts. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
I counted eleven able seamen polishing the breechblock of the stern nine-point-two, four marines zealously relieving each other at the life-buoy, six call-boys, nine midshipmen of the watch, exclusive of naval cadets, and the higher ranks past all census. Traffics and Discoveries
They wore big felt hats, their brims curled upwards, embroidered bolero jackets and cream colored chamois breeches.
Paint and tattoos adorned bodies sometimes naked, oftener wrapped in a dyed woolen kilt-a sort of primitive himation-or attired in breeches and perhaps a tunic of gaudy hues. The Boat of a Million Years
That way, because # .22 caliber long rifle cartridge is rim-fire ignited, the plunger, when released by the trigger, would both fire the piece and act as a breechblock. Will
Silvering may appear in the undercoat, tail, under parts of the dog, or beneath the tail and breechings.
Sometimes a fitted leather breechclout was worn with flaps in front and back, decorated with quillwork.
Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
His first Adventure story was called "Khlit," after its 17th-century protagonist, a saber-wielding Cossack who wore an astrakhan hat and bright red breeches. Shepherding a Lamb's Lost Legacy
Melvin found himself glad he had not allowed Grover to dress him up in all his formal frippery, opting instead for riding breeches and a plain lawn shirt.
The pistol, a .22-caliber 1857 model breechloader, had a four-inch barrel and was not accurate beyond a range of fifteen yards. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
If we do our part to keep the breech clean and the touch hole clear, the ignition is almost instantaneous.
He tossed me a laced white shirt and tan breeches.
A jenny is a difficult in-off shot to the middle pocket, usually with the object ball close to the side-cushion; a pair of breeches is a simultaneous in-off and pot red in the top pockets. (p. 19) The Sky Writer
Why do doctors panic when the baby is breech at 37 weeks?
Birth by Cesarean section is only encouraged in the event of a complication, such as breech positioning or stalled labor.
An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage -- and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches -- covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation. Nick of the Woods
No one but Michael Jackson wears knee breeches and gold braid anymore.
Yes | No | Report from diverdude41 wrote 36 weeks 2 days ago there are so many factors to think about when shooting a rifle and trying to zero. the loads, rate of twist, scope, and mounts temp of the air, and the barrel after shooting. .my recommendation is what some of the responses have already said. make 20 rounds of your test load, fire 5 rds, and let the barrel cool commpletly. swab from the breech end to remove any fouling, and try another 5 rds repeat this process 2 more times and see where you are at. remember, the first round out of you barrel will be cold .. How Many Groups is Enough?
As soon as he had jumped off, the horse struggled to his feet, plunged forward, gave one leap and another, neighed again, and dragging the drugget and the breechband after him, disappeared, leaving Vasili Andreevich alone on the snow-drift. Master and Man
Had on and took with him, a green broadcloth coat, almost new, a new striped jacket, with sleeves in the fashion of a sailor's, a striped crossbarred printed-cotton vest of an olive colour, buckskin breeches, and striped silk and cotton hose; BUT AS HE IS KNOWN TO HAVE The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
It's a grand pageant set in elaborate 17th century costumes of wigs, breeches, tights and ruffs.
As I wish to describe these persons as accurately as possible, I may add, he wore a dark-coloured coat, corduroy breeches, and spatterdashes. Redgauntlet
She chose a pair of dark breeches, and linen shirt and then she added a dark green quilted jacket over it, quickly and efficiently trying the straps together.
The slide is made of a stamping of chrome moly steel, with a machined steel breechblock segment, and covered with a polymer shroud.
The wheel-horses' breechings are independent of their collars.
I had on a pair of old breeches that had been sained in and dried so often they was about half rotten. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)
He was dripping wet and clad merely in his shirt and breeches. Man of Honour
This gun was a very fine one, a breech-loader, and belonged to Olinger. The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid
He stepped from behind the screen, dressed in light, silky green robes and soft doeskin breeches.
He was still a little mad she had worn breeches under her dress.
He then took four French ells of a coarse brown russet cloth, and therein apparelling himself, as with a long, plain-seamed, and single-stitched gown, left off the wearing of his breeches, and tied a pair of spectacles to his cap. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
One is hastily procured, and the first captain -- a great, brawny, good-natured fellow, who has spent years at sea -- deftly fastens the bight of the rope to the handle of the breechblock. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
He called the cleverest of his children, and bade it affix to his breech-cloth a plantain-leaf, dog's-tail-wise, and waggishly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete

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