Yelling their uncouth dirge, long danced the kirtled clan. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was getting dark, and here they all were, standing in the woods with their bundles and children, watching this-this bally conflagration going on, and all of us dancing round barefoot with our shifts kirtled up, hooting like gibbons and covered with soot. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
And he could see that the two girls had taken long enough to lace their bodices tight, pull up their blouses, and drop their skirts where they were usually kirtled up to show their ankles. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)
"We must work together," Mother Superior had said firmly, and so here they were, knight's daughter and villien's son, robes and tunics kirtled up above the knee, wielding shovels with a will. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)
She had kirtled her gown high to keep the hem from getting muddied, but that only let the wind get at her legs. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)
Who among all the short-kirtled damsels of all the eclogues will match us this fair, lithe, witty, capricious, mirthful, buxom Rosalind? ❋ Various (N/A)
Around this spot were assembled a band of kirtled Greeks, provided with ropes, ladders, and flambeaux. ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)
When the silver-kirtled day steps over the twilight's bars; ❋ Lucy Maud (1916)
But there came a day to him when he missed the deer, and caught a glimpse instead of the divine huntress, Diana, high-buskined, short-kirtled, speeding with her hounds through the lonely woodland, and his thoughts ran no more on venison for that day. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
There had been that one flash, no more, and even that had not been answered by any growl of thunder; the storm did not at once move up and the heavens above were still clear and sunny by day, and starry-kirtled at night. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Tumbled and dishevelled, paling and flushing, short-kirtled and desperate-eyed, ❋ Unknown (1893)
It made her more coy and more a prude than she had ever need to be had she gone among them kirtled and coifed. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
But who was the black-kirtled woman who appeared to ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
At her man's door she was standing, barefooted, fray-kirtled as of old; but riper, of more assured and triumphant beauty. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
These attracted me violently, and here for the first time I gazed on Apollo with his proud gesture, Venus in her undulations, the kirtled shape of Diana, and Jupiter voluminously bearded. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
Then Pentheus fled in fear, and they pursued after him, with raiment kirtled through the belt above the knee. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)
In the guise of a green-kirtled enchantress, with wild poppies and primroses wreathed above her starry eyes, Science was luring him through the borderland of her kingdom, toward that dark, chill, central realm where, transformed as a gnome, she clutches her votaries, plunges into the primeval abyss-the matrix of time -- and sets them the Egyptian task of weighing, analyzing the Titanic ❋ Unknown (1872)
Of course there was a cupboard, and equally of course the white-washed walls were hung with tapestry, wherein a green-kirtled ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
And the jeunesse doree of Ravenna, who had thought it likely that the Diva would appear as some light - skirted Flora, or high-kirtled Diana, were altogether disappointed. ❋ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1851)
I'm gonna [breed] [a kitten] and [turtle] and then kirtles will take over the world. ❋ Kirtle Satan (2014)
