Hosened

I, tae, by God’s especial grace, / Dwall denty in a bieldy place, / Wi’ hosened feet, wi’ shaven face, / Wi’ dacent mainners: / A grand example to the race / O’ tautit sinners!

“Well, I will let you off this time,” said Maurice royally, stretching his limbs luxuriously and putting one hosened foot on the mantel-shelf as high as his head.

Matthew had hung his wig over the back of the only unoccupied chair, but the stranger, without so much as, “by your leave, sir,” threw it into the window seat, and pulling the chair to the fire, drew off his riding-boots and sat with his hosened feet upon the hob, seemingly unmindful of the heat.

A draft of cold air smote their hosened legs, and through a small slit window came the dry smell of snow.

“Here, Dame,” the priest gasped, short-breathed with hurry, his black robe tucked up into his belt to clear his hosened legs, and the curls around his tonsure in more disarray even than usual as he pushed in among the men.