"What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to……" — Gail Carriger
"What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves."
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170 Quotes by Gail Carriger
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to…
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept…
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— Diana Gabaldon
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