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Examples
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A line of blue-coated, white-gaitered soldiers on each side kept the space clear down the centre.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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He preferred to navigate the Zoo on his own white-gaitered legs.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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The stocky man shifted his weight from one white-gaitered foot to the other and gave the cigar another twist.
Steadfast Falters 1916
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He looked rather odd there in his zouave jacket, red trousers, white-gaitered legs hanging.
Ailsa Paige 1899
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The prompt Paris morning struck its cheerful notes -- in a soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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Then they fled to the side of the old man-servant as fast as their white-gaitered legs would carry them.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier.
The Ambassadors 2003
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