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How To Use garter In A Sentence

• Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
• A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos. Selling Sex at Auction
• No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship -- not though it be of the Garter -- confers so fair an honour. Can You Forgive Her?
• However much the glamorous image of the corseted and gartered, smoky-voiced chanteuse remains, he says they never bought into that aspect of the culture.
• Wales, Prince of, calls Brother Jonathan _consanguineus noster_, but had not, apparently, consulted the Garter King at Arms. Walpole, Horace, classed, his letters praised. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
• I know catching the bouquet traditionally (and superstitiously) means the bachelorette will be the next to get married … but I wasn’t sure if the same tradition rings true for the dude who gets the garter. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » There’s Something About Marry
• The Grandmother had told her all about the great libraries that Garter housed.
• Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king - maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
• 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
• when Felix first saw a garter snake