How To Use Breeched In A Sentence
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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
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To begin with, he was, to use his aunt's own term, "breeched" the next day, and his petticoats became the big baby's property, while his precious best frock was poked unceremoniously into a box under his aunt's bed.
The Girls of St. Olave's
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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, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions
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But show us a miserable, unbreeched, human entity, whose whole profession it is to take a tub for a fortified town and a shaving-brush for the deadly stiletto, and who passes three-fourths of his time in a dream and the rest in open self-deception, and we expect him to be as nice upon a matter of fact as a scientific expert bearing evidence.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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Small boys did wear dresses in this period until they were 'breeched'
Archive 2008-04-01
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The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collectors junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.
The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter”
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Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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At age 7, or so, the boys were "breeched;" that is, they were made to wear long pants.
So your 5-year-old boy wants to dress like a girl....
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But much of the upward move's momentum was based on technical levels being breeched around the $1.43 level.
The Dollar Takes a Beating
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It is clear to me, that Sen. Obama referred solely to his disappointment that John McCain breeched his commitment to campaign on issues alone. frank, las vegas
Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
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The Feds should probe these people, and then throw them in jail IF they illegally breeched security, or, if they did not, then it's a dead issue.
'Crashers' investigation deepens
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Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a
Michael
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He unbreeched it and spun the cylinder with his thumb and spilled the contents into his palm -- four loaded shells, suety and slick with grease, and one that had been recently fired; and it was discolored and flattened a trifle.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
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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
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Her breeched dancing was pleasant, but she is quite plump and did not convey a sense of delicacy.
Exit the Actress
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I tell thee, Alan, I have seen a better seated on the fourth round of a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander, in a bobwig, supporting a glass of like dimensions; the whole being designed to represent the sign of the Salutation.
Redgauntlet
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Get as much room as possible; tenderly pass little miss there, and her unbreeched brother, over to their smiling mamma.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827
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The tsunami was 46 ft. high and breeched the 19 ft. seawall that was meant to protect the Fukushima plant.
Steven Cohen: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe and Governor Andrew Cuomo's Policy to Close Indian Point
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As Lionel Lambourne points out notice the little boy in a frock who had not yet reached the age to be 'breeched'.
Archive 2008-04-01
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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,
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Young boys wore skirts with doublets or back-fastening bodices until they were breeched at six to eight.
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My part was smaller but well written, and my breeched dancing much anticipated and well clapped.
Exit the Actress
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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
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The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the
The Scarlet Letter
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Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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“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
