I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is, ‘Please one, and please all.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
Concentrating on gartering her nylons, the older pair, up-in-front-down-in-back mnemonically stirring in wafts among her fingers, laundry-white puckered elastic being stretched fine and tangent now to the gentle front curve of her thigh, suspender-clips glittering silver under or behind her lacquered red fingernails, passing like distant foun - tains behind red topiary trees, Jessica replies, "Oh.Mm. A Pipe, I suppose. ..." ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
As if they had gone to work to discover the only way in which pressure could be increased, they have discarded the old fashion of gartering the stockings, and have buttoned these up by bands of strong elastic ribbon, to a band placed around the waist. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
Thus the cross gartering of the Saxon buskin, boots, or gaiter, or whatever else it might have been, looks to us truly absurd and uncomfortable, judging from the caricatured figures of ancient MSS.; but the peaked and tied-up points of the 14th century, when the toe was fastened to the knee, strikes us as the _ne plus ultra_ of human folly. ❋ Various (N/A)
Accessories included glass beads, buttons, thread, both brown and black, twelve dozen yards of gartering, bone combs, scissors, shears and tailors 'shears. ❋ Annie Lash Jester (N/A)
I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is, Please one and please all. ❋ Unknown (1914)
We purchased four, giving for each one yard of print and two yards of red gartering, which was so highly prized by them that horses from all quarters were brought to us; but we declined buying any more, not knowing what to do with them. ❋ Unknown (1913)
Garland's scarlet sash to its broadest, and so had been able to let down her skirt of blue linen till it came to almost her ankles, above which the yellow cross-gartering of the sandals was diamonded in the Greek fashion her Uncle Julian had taught her. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Their arms were bare, save that one had heavy golden bracelets above the elbow; and they all wore white trousers, girt to the leg loosely with coloured cross-gartering, which reached higher than ours. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Shakespeare may go a little too far with the yellow stockings and cross-gartering, but the liability to deception by a supposed profession of love is a divine weakness, not inconsistent with true nobility of intellect and with sagacity. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
Camden roused the satire of an earlier generation by the miserable condition of the tiewig which he wore on the bench of Chancery, and by an undignified and provoking habit of "gartering up his stockings while counsel were the most strenuous in their eloquence." ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)
His limbs also are bare, save a sort of gartering below the knee, of shell and bead embroidery. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
There 'a a fellow neglecting the sale of his pig to stare at us, and that young woman has stopped gartering her stocking for the last two minutes in sheer curiosity about us. ' ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)
On the 19th of November, Mr. Hunt was lucky enough to purchase another horse for his own use, giving in exchange a tomahawk, a knife, a fire steel, and some beads and gartering. ❋ Unknown (1836)
He was a light, active, clean made young Creole negro, without shoes or stockings; he wore a pair of light jean small -- clothes, all too wide, but confined at the knees, below and above, by bands of red tape, after the manner that Malvolio would have called cross -- gartering. ❋ Michael Scott (1812)
_ A Collar instead of a Cravat twelve inches high; with a blue, stiff, starcht, lawn Band, set in print like your Whiskers; a Doublet with small Skirts hookt to a pair of wide-kneed Breeches, which dangled halfway over a Leg, all to be dash'd and dirty'd as high as the gartering. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)
I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and please all.' ❋ Unknown (1601)
Sri Lankan Air force fighter jets have made a successful nighttime air sortie at a sea tiger gartering on Thursday (Sep 25), in general area Pooneryn, at around 11p. m. ❋ Unknown (2008)
