Example Sentences

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He pulled Snap's second Colt from his belt, and unbreeched that.

From Heritage of the Desert by Grey, Zane

"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

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

The unbreeched artist of four summers never tired of scrutinizing the statues, monsters, gargoyles and other outer ornamentations, while the story of the pious architect Erwin and of his inspirer, Sabine, was equally dear.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel