Be-leggined

What made this youth remarkable was that he was clad in all the pomp and glory of war, he was be-spurred, be-campaigned hatted, be-leggined, and be-sabred, and be-trussed like any old swashbuckler out of Old Whitechapel.

Right worthily do they with their be-goggled and be-leggined riders “put-put-put” over our streets.

I grabbed one of her be-leggined ankles and yanked her to the ground and glared savagely as she would have opened her mouth to scream.

The two and three-year-olds, who come at nine o’clock, arrive be-leggined and be-muffled, and the teachers have become adept at manipulating zippers.

Thersites, who is a sort of one-man chorus for Shakespeare in his barbed commentary on war, lechery and assorted follies of man, shows up in the person of John Neville as a be-leggined, Norfolk-jacketed combination of early war correspondent and photographer.