"Trousers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sir. I know 'em all, but I never counted 'em. About seventy or eighty, I should say, not counting extra trousers." ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... presently three hundred, all told; visitors, waiters, chambermaids, hotel officials, huddled together in the most incongruous and comic costumes, and thirty per cent. of them with no costumes at all, unless night-shirts and curl-papers count. I was decorous by comparison. I had on a pair of trousers (buttoned up the wrong way, certainly), a billycock hat, a surtout coat, a walking-stick, and no shoes or socks. The hall, being paved with marble, struck exceedingly cold to bare feet, and with a total disregard for other people's property I took down ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... on the knees of his well-creased trousers, hitched them slightly, just enough to reveal a glimpse of his ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung
... an Auld Licht in Thrums when you passed him, his dull, vacant face wrinkled over a heavy wob. He wore tags of yarn round his trousers beneath the knee, that looked like ostentatious garters, and frequently his jacket of corduroy was put on beneath his waistcoat. If he was too old to carry his load on his back, he wheeled it on a creaking barrow, and when he met a friend they said, "Ay, Jeames," and "Ay, Davit," and ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie
... acting, the latest news from the news-tickers and the gossip of the Street. But the real duties are to get business for the house. Once a most peculiar man came to the office. He was about forty-five years of age, dressed in a faded cutaway coat, high-water trousers, and an East Side low-crown derby hat. In a high squeaky voice he said that he knew our Milwaukee House and would like to open an account. Of course, we were all smiles, for ...
— Successful Stock Speculation • John James Butler
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