He dressed like a habitant from head to foot, putting on a tasselled bonnet rouge and an etoffe du pays (grey homespun) suit of clothes, with a red sash and bottes sauvages like Indian moccasins.

Albeytte wythout wommen menne were pheeres To salvage kynde, and wulde botte lyve to slea, Botte wommenne efte the spryghte of peace so cheres, Tochelod yn Angel joie heie Angeles bee; Go, take thee swythyn to thie bedde a wyfe; Bee bante or blessed hie yn proovynge marryage lyfe.

Albeytte wythout wommen menne were pheeres To salvage kynde, and wulde botte lyve to slea, Botte wommenne efte the spryghte of peace so cheres, Tochelod yn Angel joie heie Angeles bee; Go, take thee swythyn to thie bedde a wyfe; Bee bante or blessed hie yn proovynge marryage lyfe.

Botte, but.

Very à proposdes bottes.

not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c 83. irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes

[Vergil]; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin

[Lat.]; what's the good!, Phr. actum ne agas [Lat.]; chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin [Fr.]; tanto buon che val niente

Pere avea pure, e qualche fratta frutta; E svina e svena di botto una botte Poscia per pesci lasche prese a l'esca; Ma il letto allotta a la frasca fu fresca.

"A diner," as the postilion (nearly smothered in his tremendous "bottes fortes," genteelly taking from his head a hat almost as small as the boots were in comparison large) was politely pleased to term it.

"Johnson, Walker, Todd, Bottes, and others.

Le garçon, lui faisant observer qu'un cheval ne mange pas d'huîtres, et qu'il vaudrait mieux lui donner une botte de foin: "Faites ce que je vous dis, et vous verrez," dit le voyageur.

BOTTE, f., assemblage de choses de même nature liées ensemble.

J'en achetai un aussi, avec des éperons et des bottes vermeilles qui montoient jusqu'aux genoux, selon la coutume du pays.

Ils ont des bottes qui montent jusqu'aux genoux, et de grandes braies (caleçons), qui pour les uns sont de velours cramoisi, pour d'autres de soie, de futaine, d'étoffes communes.

Now, exclusive of the above legal and moral indications of people to be suspected, there are also outward and visible signs which we are told from the tribune of the Convention, and the Jacobins, are not much less infalliblesuch as Gens a bas de soie rayes mouchetesa chapeau rond habit carreculotte pincee etroitea bottes cireesles muscadins FreloquetsRobinets, &

Now, exclusive of the above legal and moral indications of people to be suspected, there are also outward and visible signs which we are told from the tribune of the Convention, and the Jacobins, are not much less infalliblesuch as Gens a bas de soie rayes mouchetesa chapeau rond habit carreculotte pincee etroitea bottes cireesles muscadins FreloquetsRobinets, &

The town of Port Louis which is at the north-west, or leeward, side of the island, is built at the extremity of an amphitheatre of low land, backed in by a high and precipitous range, upon which Peter Botte and the Pouce are conspicuous features.

J'ai faim, mes gens ont faim; nous venons d'entreprendre Une guerre à travers un pays endiablé; Nous y mangions, au lieu de farine de blé, Des rats et des souris, et, pour toutes ribotes, Nous avons dévoré beaucoup de vieilles bottes.

The extremes of the island are low, but the centre is occupied by the partially wooded crest-like ridge, rugged and pinnacled, connecting La Pouce with the famous Peter Botte.

While off Cape Tribulation, a remarkable hill in the background so strongly reminded us of the Peter Botte at Mauritius, that it was so named upon our chartit is 3,311 feet in height, the Cape itself being 1,454 feet.

Have you never noticed places that look like shops, with ground glass windows instead of shop-fronts, on which are painted up the words, 'cirage des bottes?'" "Never, that I can remember.

It is true that some of our gifted contemporaries paint Italian scenery at prodigious length à propos de bottes, and others show in many pages that the rocks and the sea are picturesque objects, even when irrelevant.