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His trousers were of leather and very broad at the bottom, and all down the front and outside was some kind of gray fur "chaps" this article of dress is called and in one hand he held a closely plaited, stinging black "quirt." He wore a plaid shirt and cotton handkerchief around his neck.
Her dress was a stout, close-fitting homespun of mixed cotton and wool, woven in a neat plaid of walnut-brown, oak-red, and the pale olive dye of the hickory. Her hat was a simple round thing of woven pine straw, with a slightly drooping brim, its native brown gloss undisturbed, and the low crown wrapped about with a wreath of wild grasses plaited together with a bit of yellow cord.
While Scott was giving this account of him, we saw him at a distance striding along one of his fields, with his plaid fluttering about him, and he seemed well to deserve his appellation, for he looked all legs and tartan. Lauckie knew nothing of the world beyond his neighborhood.
After this, the General paid a visit to the Highlanders, at their settlement called "the Darien," a distance of sixteen miles on the northern branch of the Alatamaha. He found them under arms, in their uniform of plaid, equipped with broad swords, targets, and muskets; in which they made a fine appearance.
"How mysterious it is, this opening and closing! I like it more than anything else. Let us sit down, Ysobel." He spread the plaid we had brought to sit on, and laid on it the little strapped basket Jean had made ready for us. He shook the mist drops from our own plaids, and as I was about to sit down I stopped a moment to listen. "That is a tune I never heard on the pipes before," I said.
I have been measuring and making a trial of the new gray plaid which is to take the place of my old mountain shawl. The old servant which has been my companion for ten years, and which recalls to me so many poetical and delightful memories, pleases me better than its brilliant successor, even though this last has been a present from a friendly hand.
They were dressed in the same coarse home-spun, carried similar sticks, were equally begrimed about the nose with snuff, and each wound in an identical plaid of what is called the shepherd's tartan. In a back view they might be described as indistinguishable; and even from the front they were much alike. An incredible coincidence of humours augmented the impression.
Like Heine, who said so potently, "I am a tragedy," so she, too, in the sulky light of her eyes and the pulled lips and the ripple of shivers over her, proclaimed it of herself. "Seven-forty! God! what'll I do, Burkhardt? What'll I do?" "Go lay down on the sofa a bit, Hanna. I'll cover you with a plaid. It's the head-noises again bothering you." "Seven-forty! What'll I do?
"I won't look a bit like an Indian in that old coat. Can't you see another blanket with stripes on it?" asked Dot. "Not a blanket, but here's a plaid lap-cover," replied Don, as he spied the cotton cover under the blanket. "What are you children pulling from under that seat?" asked Mrs. Starr, who always watched the twins in fear and trembling.
She wore no wrap, which seemed foolish to me, for we have very sudden changes sometimes in September." "A plaid dress! And did you notice her hat?" "O, I have seen the hat often. It was of every conceivable color. It would have been called bad taste at one time, but now-a-days " The pause was significant. More than one man in the room chuckled, but the women kept a discreet silence.
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