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All the horsemen were in complete link or net mail , armed with spears and strong swords, and long, pear-shaped shields, with the device either of a cross or a dragon . The archers, on whom William greatly relied, were numerous in all three of the corps , were armed more lightly helms on their heads, but with leather or quilted breastplates, and "panels," or gaiters, for the lower limbs.

He had, however, one friend in the Chamber, a deputy newly elected for the Deux-Sevres, called M. Sarigue, a poor man sufficiently resembling the inoffensive and ill-favoured animal whose name he bore, with his red and scanty hair, his timorous eyes, his hopping walk, his white gaiters; he was so timid that he could not utter two words without stuttering, almost voiceless, continually sucking jujubes, which completed the confusion of his speech.

On the other side of the wide crossing, by the road-side, was a heap of pale-grey stones for mending the roads, and a cart standing, and a middle-aged man with whiskers round his face was leaning on his shovel, talking to a young man in gaiters, who stood by the horse's head. Both men were facing the crossing.

Gaiters must button on the left side of each leg, and trouser straps may be sewed on one side and buttoned on the other, instead of being buttoned on both sides as men's are. Tailors sometimes insist on two buttons, but as a woman does not wear her trousers except with the strap, it is not difficult to see why she needs to be able to remove it.

How could a man who talked the nonsense Puddifoot did in the Conservative Club be anything of a doctor? Besides, the man was old. There was a young man now, Newton. But Brandon distrusted young men. He was amused and pleased at the station. He strode up and down the platform, his hands behind his broad back, his head up, his top-hat shining, his gaiters fitting superbly his splendid calves.

They're not exactly riding gaiters they don't make them for such little boys but they'll do beautifully. But I don't want to tell Robin till Monday morning. You see he's got a very exciting day before him to-morrow, and I think to know about Monday on top of it might be almost too much for him." "But what excitement is there to-morrow?" She looked at him reproachfully. "Mr. Thrush!"

I see them in blue coats and red coats, marching to pour their blood as an offering on the altar of the Calf. I see them in homespun and broadcloth, I see them in smock and gaiters, I see them in cap and apron, the servants of the Calf. They swarm on the land and they dot the sea. They are chained to the anvil and counter; they are chained to the bench and the desk.

Yet this he did, and wonderfully well, as he believed; though Insie only laughed to see him. For he had on the loveliest gaiters in the world, of thin white buckskin with agate buttons, and breeches of silk, and a long brocaded waistcoat, and a short coat of rich purple velvet, also a riding hat with a gray ostrich plume.

A large, dark, clean-shaven man of forty, a studied effect of geniality and benevolence about him, slightly tempered, perhaps, by cold and watchful blue-grey eyes, fixed so said his detractors with unswerving determination upon the shovel-hat, apron, and gaiters of the Anglican episcopate. Rhoda Lovegrove, however, was very far from being among the detractors.

Then all of a sudden there spring up these evidences of the most amazing, the most diabolical resource.... Who's this, Lord Ashleigh?" The latter turned his head. An elderly man in a brown velveteen suit, with gaiters and thick boots, raised his hat respectfully. "This is my head-keeper, Middleton," his master explained. "He was with us on the chase."