unbreeched
- a word derived from breech.
Example Sentences
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When you were yet unbreeched I was lord of half Europe.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
And at that time we were an unbreeched people, like the Indians— saving your Highnesses' reverence—and the climate here is too cold for such costume.
From History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03 by Motley, John Lothrop
"That we will," said I, with as bitter a resolution to impart the instruction as ever schoolmaster did to whip Latin grammar into one of the great unbreeched.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James
Michael grew up, therefore, as might be expected, a hungry, dirty-faced, unbreeched, long-coated urchin.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson
The next moment, he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant; far readier than the Collector's junior clerk, who, at nineteen years, was much the elder and graver man of the two.
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
