In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and
corduroys. Mr.
Swishtail's academy upon what are called "mutual principles"--that is to say, the expenses of his board and schooling were defrayed by his father in goods, not money; and he stood there--most at the bottom of the school--in his scraggy
corduroys and jacket, through the seams of which his great big bones were bursting--as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings of the establishment), and other commodities.
He wore a decent square felt hat, a shabby respectable overcoat, a workman's knitted waistcoat, and workman's
corduroys, and he carried an umbrella.
Philip found himself sitting between an old labourer in
corduroys, with string tied under his knees, and a shiny-faced lad of seventeen with a love-lock neatly plastered on his red forehead.
To begin with, Good insisted upon keeping on his new-found trousers, and a stout, short gentleman with an eye-glass, and one half of his face shaved, arrayed in a mail shirt, carefully tucked into a very seedy pair of
corduroys, looks more remarkable than imposing.
These marks produce the
corduroy sort of stripes discernible in the tappa in its finished state.
She was cracking walnuts and picking them out of the shells, throwing out a remark occasionally to a rough man in a rabbit-skin cap, with straps under the knees of his
corduroy trousers, who stood puffing a black clay pipe with his back against the wall.