How To Use Brogue In A Sentence
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He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
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It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues.
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Campbell country; now, as I say, they were very snod, the scurviest of the knaves set up with his hosen and brogues.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Since balmorals are more formal than bluchers and broguing makes shoes less formal, where does this leave those shoes that are both brogued and balmorals?
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Finding out that nobody wants high quality hand-stitched brogues anymore, Charlie realises that a change of product is needed.
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He becomes a chiselled ladykiller in polished brogues and a sharp linen suit.
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Finnegans Wake
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I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.
THE SAVING GRACES
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Her voice was thick with a Scottish brogue, which normally I would find fascinating, if she hadn't seemed like such a haughty snot.
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It loves blazers, brogues and polo shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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He eschews the uniform of the boardroom boss, preferring sports jackets and casual boots to the traditional Savile Row suit and handmade brogues.
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The fashion plate was papped in brogues only a few weeks ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Edwards himself was in brilliant brogues, razor-creased tan slacks and blazer over silk shirt and neckerchief.
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Otley's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat.
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Simon Pegg plays Scotty as Simon Pegg with a brogue, which is exactly what I wanted to see.
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But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
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Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Ulysses
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Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums.
Surprised by Joy
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This foot, too, is in a brown brogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
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Gill speaks in a quiet Irish brogue.
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney.
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But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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The brogues and short socks looked geeky in a good way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other accessories include beards and sideburns (confirming that hairy faces are back) and for your feet there's desert boots, brogues and Chelsea boots for extra comfy rambling.
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I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.
THE SAVING GRACES
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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
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Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals.
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But she did not give her "brogue" the inimitable twist she had given it in the practices, and her readings lacked their usual fire and appeal.
Rilla of Ingleside
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Irish lady, with twinkling eyes and a pernicketty strong will, and a brogue she transferred deliciously into her broken French.
A Prisoner in Fairyland
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A new pair of brogues, a cashmere jumper or personalised cufflinks are all popular dad gifts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Higgins, a small stout woman who usually speaks in a booming Irish brogue, nods silently.
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‘Quite possibly,’ a red-haired man with an Irish brogue said.
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Finnegans Wake
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Dad always likes to dress up for any occasion, so he travelled, in the height of summer, in a three-piece tweed suit, large overcoat and brogues.
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I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
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They no longer wear brogues and stripy shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right from the outset, even if you ignored his Irish brogue, when you hear that he was born in Limerick, you would know he is Irish - and that's the Republic of Ireland he hastened to tell me.
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Of course, doffing my hobnailed leather brogues for a bit of fresh air in the middle of the aerodrome probably didn't endear me to the locals.
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Shoes are now considered to be one of, if not the most important part of an outfit, be they stilettos, brogues, cowboy boots or sneakers.
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The only time the film trips up is in casting the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as an Irishman, his grating Scots accent unsuccessfully modulated to try and make it resemble an Irish brogue.
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If you had called into my humble newsagent to instruct me in person I could have licked your brogues and sent my youngest out with a chamois leather to wash your Range Rover.
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Speaking with a Dickensian cockney brogue is pushing things a bit.
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I heard my mum on the other end, her Irish brogue more noticeable than when I had left.
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Instead of requiring the actor to disguise it, the director forces every other performer essaying a Greek or Macedonian role to have an Irish brogue.
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BLOOM: _ (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye) _ Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating.
Ulysses
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Wisdom?" cried another voice with a brogue; arrah, and is't wisdom the two geese are gabbling about all this while?
The Confidence-Man
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Here, with a brogue that's been steeped in decades of isolation, Smith Islanders render house as "hace" and brown as "brain.
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A father to two sons and the keeper of a large but modest house, he speaks as little as possible - his voice reveals him as among the first generation to lose its Irish brogue.
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The Irish brogue became more pronounced as the voice became more panic-stricken.
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In fact, Gilbert seems more upset when a mugger robs him of his favourite pair of brogues.
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They no longer wear brogues and stripy shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
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It seemed to be a mix between the English accent and the Irish brogue.
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Where once ballet slippers, car shoes, moccasins and brogues were once boringly themselves, now they've somehow interbred, jollied up and produced a new generation of lightened-up fashion ideas.
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There's a genteel nerviness about this big, bendy-nosed bloke in the Norwich City football shirt, slacks and comfy brown brogues.
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Before she got her hair chemically straightened and added sassy heels to her formerly flat brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Sky I first observed the use of Brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Irish people speak English with an accent known as a brogue.
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It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he w as very familiar and which touched him nearly.
Freckles
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She saw him turn to a Lord near him, his Irish brogue fainter than it had been years before due to years of tutoring under English professors.
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‘I can remember every nanosecond of that crash,’ says Neeson, who possesses a soft Antrim brogue and the delivery of a born raconteur.
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The brogue was there, strong and unmistakable as poteen.
THE ONLY GAME
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Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
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Get down to Uniqlo and buy one of these splendid print or check flannel shirts, and wear with boyfriend jeans and heels or brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore a pair of brogues, tartan hose which came up only near to his knees, and left them bare, a purple camblet kilt, a black waistcoat, a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord, a yellowish bushy wig, a large blue bonnet with a gold thread button.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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[484] 'In Sky I first observed the use of brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that, though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.'
Life of Johnson
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Give your feet a rest too and ditch the heels for flat brogues and loafers like the comfy M&S tan pair above.
The Sun
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The first was a fine gold Tissot, bequeathed to me by my Uncle Harold, along with a venerable pair of tan brogues.
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Men expect to see the return of the pointy-toe brogues with a thick leather sole, as well as the Chelsea boot to polish your mod style.
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His face relaxes: he turns quietly, and gravely takes off his hat to the tuft, addressing the insect in a brogue which is the jocular assumption of a gentleman and not the natural speech of a peasant.
John Bull's Other Island
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That morning he rose at sunrise and stepped into trousers and brogues in the tea-colored light.
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Sure it's as aisy as lapping crame," the girl says with a little affected brogue and a smile that shows all her dimples.
Only an Irish Girl
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For example, as he grew drunker in the final act, he began to slip back into the Irish brogue that he told us he had worked so hard to erase.
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“A stentor, me ignorant broth of a boy!” cried Mrs. Tarleton, aping his brogue.
Gone with the Wind
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The official's brogue cordovans and the chief's beads are remarkably detailed.
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He may have a Dublin brogue and a very Irish sense of humour, but Mark Geary has found his home, and Ireland is not it.
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At family gatherings Vik is always immaculately groomed: blazer, brogues, wavy hair-sprayed coiffure.
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So I put on a deep Scottish brogue and got enough change to buy the chips.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swedish woman, who lived on tea and sugar, and afterwards had gone away and borne nine children, more frail and anaemic than herself; there had been the stout personage with the Irish brogue who had dropped the Christmas turkey out of the window and had not taken the trouble to go down after it; there had been the little old negress who had gone insane, and hurled the salt-box at his mother's head.
Love's Pilgrimage
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BROGUE, (1) A rough shoe of raw leather (from the Gael. _brog_, a shoe) worn in the wilder parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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He was born in Chicago in 1958 to immigrant parents; as the New York Times notes, his Irish brogue can be summoned depending on the occasion.
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Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
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The punky theme runs through the rails with gothic cobweb knitwear for Halloween time that can also be worn over skinny jeans and flat winkle-picker brogues.
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It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he was very familiar and which touched him nearly.
Freckles
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Fun fact: the word brogue is derived from the Gaelic word, bróg, which means "shoe.
Outblush
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She still had her Irish brogue and could dance with the best of them.
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His carroty hair and beard were all natural, his name was honestly Patrick, and so for her love, he learned to talk with a brogue.
Of Rainbows and Pots
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He stood outside, briskly polishing the insteps of his brogues.
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To say I had a spring in my step would be over-egging the pudding but I might well have done if I'd been wearing what I believe are known as ‘trainers’ rather than Oxford brogues.
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‘First, I want you to bring out that blasted trash out of here,’ he said in his Irish brogue as he pointed at Manda.
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The use of exaggerated dialect in ‘Down Shamrock Alley’ as representation of the Irish brogue helps to satirize and parody the new ethnic community of the Irish.
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Oddest of all though, she speaks in an accent I've rarely heard her use - her own, a precise, flutey Scots brogue.
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A real country gent: brogues and thick socks and a waistcoat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hould your tongue, jewel," drolled the little junior, who delighted in exaggerating the brogue that tripped naturally off his Irish tongue.
The Dop Doctor
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Grandfather spoke with a thick Scottish brogue.
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If you want some quiet R & R — I know, I know, we are shopping, not on a retreat, but bear with me — the lavendar, orchid-strewn, light-flooded, minimalist "arena" where shoes from the likes of Balenciaga (stunning raspberry etiolated "Countess" pumps, £ 325) keep company with Jil Sander's lace-up gray brogue's (£ 410) — perfect for baggy or slouchy pants — offers what you might term a "moment" for retail reflection.
Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat
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Yet rather than the French, Argentinian and Dutch tones to be found today, the slang Hill couldn't decipher was the Scottish brogue and the Irish lilt.
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A latter-day dandy, he was renowned as much for his cut-glass vowels as for his Savile Row suits, bespoke shirts and handmade brogues.
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Expecting a Gaelic romp in the woods, Judge George Hatch bought a brand new pair of brogues.
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His brogue is pretty clear (he enunicates better that Craig Ferguson) so that would be fun.
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There are also two kilt shops, with Highland regalia for sale or hire, their windows dressed in swathes of tartan and accessories, dirks, sporrans and brogues.
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He was one evening at the house of his friend Burke, when he was beset by a tenth muse, an Irish widow and authoress, just arrived from Ireland, full of brogue and blunders, and poetic fire and rantipole gentility.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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A latter-day dandy, he was renowned as much for his cut-glass vowels as for his Savile Row suits, bespoke shirts and handmade brogues.
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I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them.
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A real country gent: brogues and thick socks and a waistcoat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mickey's gently lifting Irish brogue is enough to call a storm .....
Heroes or Villains?
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She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue.
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Brendan Howlin: get a woolly hat, warm coat, mittens and stout brogues to keep him warm in the gulags.
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She wears heavy brogue shoes and those thick lisle stockings.
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She kept her hair short, wore men's tailored suits and brogues.
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He kept his shoes, heavy brown brogues, polished to a mirror shine.
Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
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He wears a pinstripe suit, cufflinks, navy quilted jacket and brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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He cast the leathern brogue or buskin from his right foot, planted himself in a firm posture, unsheathed his sword, and first looking around to collect his resolution, he bowed three times deliberately towards the holly-tree, and as often to the little fountain, repeating at the same time, with a determined voice, the following rhyme:
The Monastery
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Gill speaks in a quiet Irish brogue.
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On her feet she wore flat-heeled brown brogues with leather flaps.
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I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
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An Irish brogue greeted him but menace tainted his welcome.
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• Black Doc Marten shoes or boots, but not the knee-highs favoured by Goths and gay skinheads; possibly brogues or brothel-creepers at a pinch.
Cultural Snow
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Campbell country; now, as I say, they were very snod, the scurviest of the knaves set up with his hosen and brogues.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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His claim being admitted and registered, his Royal Highness having placed his foot upon a cushion, the Baron of Bradwardine, kneeling upon his right knee, proceeded to undo the latchet of the brogue, or low-heeled Highland shoe, which our gallant young hero wears in compliment to his brave followers.
Waverley
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His hair was short, and stuck up aggressively; his brogue was the strongest in the regiment; his blunders were innumerable, and his look of amazement at the laughter they called forth was admirably feigned, save that the twinkle of his eye induced a suspicion that he himself enjoyed the joke as well as anyone.
With Moore at Corunna
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They run a shoe shop, which is a front for a drugs operation, with Angela delivering the ‘goods’ inside pairs of stilettos and brogues, seemingly unnoticed by the local constabulary.
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Men expect to see the return of the pointy-toe brogues with a thick leather sole, as well as the Chelsea boot to polish your mod style.
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guess at my maining," and another in which he has "lase" for "lease," suggest that, if his pronunciation may be judged from his spelling, he retained a rich Irish brogue.
The Story of Cooperstown
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Crotal-coat, crotal-coat, there are peats in your brogues!" they would cry; or "Hielan'-man, hielan'-man, go home for your _fuarag_ and brose!
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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And some boys still wore their caps with the wee dambrod pattern jauntily, and some had no caps to wear, and some were all daubed about with white bandages stained crimson, and none had hose, and few had brogues.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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Several witnesses related the story of that operation, usually with an Irish brogue to enhance the color of Madden's bravado.
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The good Gaelic soldier will eat, sweetly, crowdy made in his brogue -- how much better off were we with the stout and well-fired oaten cakes that this Highland gentleman made on the flagstone in front of our cave-fire!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Before she got her hair chemically straightened and added sassy heels to her formerly flat brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Higgins, a small stout woman who usually speaks in a booming Irish brogue, nods silently.
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They run a shoe shop, which is a front for a drugs operation, with Angela delivering the ‘goods’ inside pairs of stilettos and brogues, seemingly unnoticed by the local constabulary.
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But like a pair of trusty brown brogues, it served its master well and was good at what it did.
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He stood outside, briskly polishing the insteps of his brogues.
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Boris's black brogues look in need of re-soling.
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Stepping out of his red helicopter on the outskirts of Kendal, Prince Charles, dressed in a camel overcoat, dark suit and muddied brogues, spent more than an hour touring the pioneering food park Plumgarths.
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I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
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Shoes are now considered to be one of, if not the most important part of an outfit, be they stilettos, brogues, cowboy boots or sneakers.
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It seems Patsy has forgotten to change his boots, and is still wearing his work brogues!
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He wears polished brogues, his tie is purple and he sports a matching handkerchief.
Times, Sunday Times
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He eschews the uniform of the boardroom boss, preferring sports jackets and casual boots to the traditional Savile Row suit and handmade brogues.
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He wears a pinstripe suit, cufflinks, navy quilted jacket and brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
