31 Metaphors for shoe

Tyrell's shoe for this purpose is the best I have yet seen.

Her shoes were patent leather pumps, utterly unsuitable for a trip to the country.

3.) Add, that the Rich have still a Gibe in Store, And will be monstrous witty on the Poor; For the torn Surtout and the tatter'd Vest, The Wretch and all his Wardrobe are a Jest: The greasie Gown sully'd with often turning, Gives a good Hint to say the Man's in Mourning; Or if the Shoe be ript, or Patch is put, He's wounded I see the Plaister on his Foot.

His patent-leather shoes were a sight to behold.

The shoe or boot is the weak point of almost all military forces.

And even if it did I couldn't make out what it meant, because that shoe was no scout shoe.

Her shoes were goneher stockings cut from her feetwhile blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank.

A horse-shoe which is nailed to the gate is not, as is generally supposed, a propitiation of the Goddess of Fortune, but a token from the owner of some sick animal that he would bring an offering to the shrine in the event of a cure resulting from his visit.

My shoes were not brogans, but made of lighter leather, and made suitable for in the house.

His shoes down the passage came clod, clod, clod, And when he opened the door, He croaked so harsh, 'twas as much as she could To keep from laughing the more, the more, To keep from laughing the more.

"I wish I could." "Oh, I think your shoes are a lovely shape," spoke Grace.

All the boots shoes and every thing else we have made of lether is second thing because some poor animal was rob-ed of his coat that we might have boots and many other things. , aged 16.

Indirectly, the shoe may still be a cause of corn by reason of the irritation set up by gravel and small pieces of flint becoming firmly fixed between the sole and the web of the shoe.

Destitute of all those things which their own industry could not supply, they walked about their habitations with their feet bare, and shoes were a convenience reserved for Sunday, when, at an early hour, they attended mass at the church of the Shaddock Grove, which you see yonder.

Dr. Miller had an eye for business who could make shoes was a great saving to him.

Here, again, the most useful shoe is the Rocker Bar (Fig. 119).

"His snow shoes would be the sorriest of drags upon his feet in mud and water, and without them he will sink to his knees.

The shoe became the center of attention, the cynosure of all eyes.

(Shoes, to the Arab, are articles for ceremonious indoor use; when any serious walking is to be done, he takes them off, slings them over his shoulder, and trusts to the horny soles of his feet.)

12. 'Suppose a man the coarsest gown should wear, No shoes, his forehead rough, his look severe, And ape great Cato in his form and dress; Must be his virtues and his mind express?' (Creech).

This little shoe has been my comforter through this long year, and I have kept it as other lovers keep their fairer favors.

The dudish student was as white as the wall, his clothing looked dishevelled, and his shoes were un-blacked, a great contrast to the Flockley of old.

But, madam, those shoes are KAREN (interrupting; whispering).

'Oh! shoes are they,' quoth he, with a well bred sneer, 'I thought they were slippers.'

Are you not aware that gym shoes are not the proper things to come to school in?

31 Metaphors for  shoe