"Hosen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire ...
— The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete • Anonymous
... in 1825. The romanticism killed him. Walter Scott, from his Castle of Abbotsford, sent out a troop of gallant young Scotch adventurers, merry outlaws, valiant knights, and savage Highlanders, who, with trunk hosen and buff jerkins, fierce two-handed swords, and harness on their back, did challenge, combat, and overcome the heroes and demigods of Greece and Rome. Notre Dame a la rescousse! Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert has borne Hector of Troy clear out of his saddle. Andromache may weep: but her spouse ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... from afar with Lycian horn he sped; Gold rang the bow upon his back; gold-mitred was his head In priestly wise; his saffron scarf, the crackling folds of it Of linen fine, in knot about a red-gold buckle knit; His kirtle was embroidered fair, his hosen outland-wrought. The maiden, whether Trojan gear for temple-gate she sought, Or whether she herself would wend, glorious in war-got gold, Amidst of all the press of arms this man in chase must hold 780 Blind ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... ever thou gavest hosen and shoon Every night and all, Sit thee down and put them on, ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... tailor behaved very well; but as thy profound retrospective glance led thee to forbode, the cravats, the hats, and the silk hosen perplexed our souls, for there was nothing in our purse to be perplexed thereby. As said Blondet, so say we; there is a fortune awaiting the establishment which will supply young men with inexpensive articles on credit; for when we do not pay in the beginning, we pay dear in the end. And by ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac |
