From the top of his trimly-cut grey crown to his neatly-shod silent feet he exuded deference and respectability.

It appears, further, to be always a result of the animal being newly shod, and the clinches firmly secured; so much so that it would be probable, with imperfectly secured clinches, that the animal would draw the hoof from the clinches and the shoe rather than the foot from its horny covering.

Then, provided with fresh clothes and provisions, and with his horses freshly-shod, Eyre recommenced his weary pilgrimage, and, in July, 1841, arrived at his long-desired goal, King George's Sound.

It savored of mystery, diplomacy, intrigue, and there was a thrill in his heart as he sat in the green plush-covered seat, and leaning back, with his daintily shod feet on the opposite seat, surveyed himself in the long mirror which filled the door of the stateroom at the end.

Suitably shod, and with a leather sole for preference, the animal may then again be put to work.

Pausing for a moment in her sewing, she heard some one walking about in the room above her to and fro, with a regular though light step, as of bare or thinly-shod feet, on the boards.

Once your dull eyes gleamed with light; Once those arms were round and white; And the feet, now roughly shod, Lightly danced upon the sod, As to womanhood you grew

She was sitting in a rocking chair which "squeaked"her smartly shod foot resting on a pale blue rosethe pale blue rose being in the carpet.

Each leg was a fine leg, well-clad, and superbly shod in almost new boots with nail-protected soles.

But when she had mechanically shod herself once more, not without nervous shivers at every falling needle, he was at her side.

After being a long time badly shod, nearly or all of this necessary principle of the foot will be lost.

" I could have knelt down on the hard floor, Sir, and kissed her exquisitely shod feet.

The track was not such as would be left by a person heavily shod: it was rather like that of one wearing a stocking or thin slipper.

Her step was quick, but with a certain authority she planted on the ground her large feet, loosely shod and with low heels.

It would not have been so bad if we had been adequately shod or clothed; but soon we found ourselves envying the ragged Arabs as they trudged along barefoot, paying no heed to the jagged flints.