"Legging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all right, will you? I mean as regards the foodstuffs and what not. I want him to make a good breakfast. He's got to meet his mother this morning at Charing Cross. She's legging ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... from our point of view. In actuality it was nothing of the kind. It was, if anything, much more ugly in spirit. The genius of the Free State section of insurgents displayed itself chiefly in a highly finished exposition of lying, looting and "legging it." ...
— With Botha in the Field • Eric Moore Ritchie
... to which adheres a covering, which is at once coat and legging, without wrinkles. The borders of the fastenings are furnished with globular buttons, extended round and caught up here and there by chains. The coverings of the legs descend to the shoes and are continued even to the heels. Then they cover the feet with large ...
— The City of the Sun • Tommaso Campanells
... Bill. "In ten minutes I shall cross the Central, Southern, and Middle Western States, and be legging it ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... designed to perform it unknown to any one. As I was ignorant of the probable duration of such an undertaking, I was anxious to take a sufficient wardrobe, and therefore required a valise; but not being able to procure one, I purloined a long leather-legging of my father's, buttoned it up, and stuffed it with my clothes, and which now, when turned in at the ends, and strapped to the saddle with the buttons downward, would have imposed itself as a respectable ...
— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.
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