"Little dog-boots.

Beatrix, who had by this time pouted sufficiently (and who, whenever a stranger appeared, began from infancy almost to play off little graces to catch his attention), her brother being now gone to bed, was for taking her place upon Esmond's knee: for though the Doctor was very attentive to her, she did not like him because he had thick boots and dirty hands (the pert young miss said), and because she hated learning the catechism.

Do they not indulge in a vicious and wholly unpardonable wealth of muddy boots, wherewith to trample upon their unoffending neighbors?

After this he pulled the tight riding boot slowly from the swollen foot.

I know where it is.' 'No, Archie, certainly not; you can't fasten laced boots with a buttonhook....

He wore a red shirt, brown boots, and had a tenor voice.

They are 'gone down to Hades, even many stalwart souls of heroes,' with John Warde of Squerries at their headthe fathers of the men who conquered at Waterloo; and we their degenerate grandsons are left instead, with puny arms, and polished leather boots, and a considerable taint of hereditary disease, to sit in club-houses, and celebrate the progress of the species.

As to the high-heeled boots I suppose she wore them, but how was I to know that?

The very first downpour wetted every young man and woman to the bone and filled thin boots with water.

In the large room Sain, seated in an arm-chair, his feet on the dog-irons, drying his wet boots before a huge fire, said, with that calm and courageous smile which he wore in the Tribune, "Things are looking badly for us, but well for the Republic.

And there were two civilians, in riding-boots all dusty, who looked singularly like you and Uncle Ramon.

I tried to get fitted in the kind of shoes you girls have," and Grace looked at the stout and substantial walking boots of her companions, "but they didn't have my size.

The well-worn, tall, laced boots were of brown leather, much scuffed, one in colour with the soil dusting them.

But a nearer view only completed my discomfiture, for it was one of those greasy-shiny hats which go with frayed trousers and broken boots, and which are the symbol of "better days," of hopes that are dead, and "drinks" that dally, of a social status that has gone and of a suburban villa that has shrunk to a cubicle in a Rowton lodging-house.

He had a bald head and light hair, a short whisker cut to his cheek, a buff waistcoat, very neat boots and hands, and was altogether dignified, bland, smiling, and statesmanlike.

But thy dove's eyes are honest eyes, so now shall you know that hid within the lining of this my left boot be eighty and nine gold pieces, and in my right a ring with stones of price, and, moreover, here behold a goodly chain.

Running downstairs, he saw his dirty boots staring him in the face.

he has lost a foot; And see him go hobbling along, With the stump laced up in that clumsy boot, Before the gathering throng!

From the middle of this heap of feathers stuck up two very thin yellow legs with shabby boots that gave one last despairing kick and then were still.

He was dressed in clean khaki and shiny boots.

He wished they were numb now, and cursed silently the man who first invented cowboy boots.

After a while, the manwho had enormous water-boots on, but who was fortunately a good swimmerappeared on the surface, caught hold of a life-preserver which had been thrown out to him, was picked up by a boat, and hoisted on board.

His legs, with petticoat breeches and cased in great leathern sea-boots pulled up to his knees, stood planted wide apart as though to brace against the slant of the deck.

Slop clothes and cheap boots are turned out in large quantities by workers who have no claim to be called tailors or shoemakers.

The pretty, sickly-looking slattern carried her rags with an air, and wore a pair of smart, well-made boots; she was pretending to push her admirer away, while really doing just the opposite, for the slim yet broad-shouldered stripling in his blue blouse had a certain townified elegance and the "conquering hero" air of the suburban dancing-saloons.