Lexicographical Neighbors of Overknee
Literary usage of Overknee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"QH the breast'of'it; res't of the apparel 'dim,' Unobtrusive in colour or cut,
ending in high overknee military boots, which may be brushed (and, I hope, ..."
2. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches by William Francis Collier (1900)
"... unobtrusive in colour or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, which
may be brushed (and, I hope, kept soft with an underhand suspicion of oil), ..."
3. The Elements of Rhetoric by James De Mille (1882)
"... unobtrusive in color or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, which
may be brushed (and I hope kept soft with an underhand suspicion of oil), ..."
4. Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical by George Rhett Cathcart (1892)
"... Spanish snuff on the breast of it; rest of the apparel dim, unobtrusive in
color or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, which may be brushed, ..."
5. Great Leaders: Historic Portraits from the Great Historians (1889)
"... unobtrusive in color or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, which
may be brushed (and, I hope, kept soft with an underhand suspicion of oil), ..."
6. The Journal of Education for Upper Canada by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, John George Hodgins, Adam Crooks, Ontario Dept. of Education (1858)
"... unobtrusive in colour or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, which
may be brushed (and, I hope, kept soft, with an underhand suspicion of oil), ..."
7. Deuteronomy, the people's book: its origin and nature, a defence [by J. Sime]. by James Sime (1877)
"... unobtrusive in " colour or cut, ending in high overknee military boots, "
which may be brushed (and, I hope, kept soft with an " underhand suspicion of ..."
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