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... High-kilted perhaps, as once at Dundee I saw them, Petticoats up to the knees, or even, it might be, above them Matching their lily-white legs with the clothes that they trod in the wash-tub! ... ... In a blue cotton print tucked up over striped linsey-woolsey, Barefoot, barelegged he beheld her, with arms bare up to the elbows, Bending with fork in her hand in a garden uprooting potatoes!
... High-kilted perhaps, as once at Dundee I saw them, Petticoats up to the knees, or even, it might be, above them Matching their lily-white legs with the clothes that they trod in the wash-tub! ... ... In a blue cotton print tucked up over striped linsey-woolsey, Barefoot, barelegged he beheld her, with arms bare up to the elbows, Bending with fork in her hand in a garden uprooting potatoes!
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- A. H. Clough (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 167 · printed citation: A. H. Clough (The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich). · compiler notes excluded
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