"Kirtled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yellow there was, as the simpleton had said; but it was not the vengeful Ran who looked out from under it. Tumbled and dishevelled, paling and flushing, short-kirtled and desperate-eyed, Helga the Fair ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... Not a Hen in the world but preens her feathers in the hope—the very touching hope, certainly—of offering us a moment's distraction, some day, between two songs. We are so sure of ourself that we never hesitate, not even when the lady is a visitor, and not quite the ordinary short-kirtled Hen whom one can engage without further ceremony by ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand |
