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  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he called and stamped down the length of her quarters.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he shouted, as he stamped out under the porte cochère just as a ranch limousine swung around the curve among the lilacs.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he shouted before him, out to the sleeping porch; and found only a demure, brow-troubled Chinese woman of thirty, who smiled self-effacing embarrassment into his eyes.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he called and stamped down the length of her quarters.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he shouted, as he stamped out under the porte cochère just as a ranch limousine swung around the curve among the lilacs.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • “Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he shouted before him, out to the sleeping porch; and found only a demure, brow-troubled Chinese woman of thirty, who smiled self-effacing embarrassment into his eyes.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • Whatever may have been its faults, the Geneva Bible, commonly called the Breeches Bible from its rendering of (Genesis 3: 7) was unquestionably, for sixty years, the most popular of all versions.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • The rood-screen is modern but the old double lectern is interesting; chained to it is a "Breeches" Bible and Erasmus '"Paraphrase."

    Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  • The word occurs in this form not only in our version of the Bible, but in that of Cranmer, and in the "Breeches" Bible.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • "Breeches," said Mistress Clorinda, slapping her knee.

    A Lady of Quality 1896

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