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"Petticoated" Quotes from Famous Books

... did try, for I was determined not to be beaten by these long-bearded, long-petticoated men; and the next trial was crowned ...

— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... of interest. The low flame-edged kiln, sending out dense clouds of creamy smoke, with a band of red and grey clothed workers moving in the haze, and usually some petticoated boys and women who come down with drink, forms a scene with as much variety and colour as ...

— The Aran Islands • John M. Synge

... had been succeeded by the Pepins; to the effete Carlovingians had come a Capet; to the impotent Valois should come a worthier descendant of St. Louis. This was shrewd Gascon calculation, aided by constitutional fearlessness. When despatch-writing, invisible Philips, stargazing Rudolphs, and petticoated Henrys, sat upon the thrones of Europe, it was wholesome to show the world that there was a King left who could move about in the bustle and business of the age, and could charge as well as most soldiers ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

Words linked to "Petticoated" : clothed, clad