buskins

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There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards.

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Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth.

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He then signed a formal certificate of death, and Vatican clerics dressed the body for its final appearance: golden miter, white alb, crimson and gold gloves, chasuble, buskins and slippers.

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Not since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes.

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After the death of Romanus, every general in the empire seemed to think that the time had come for him to assume the purple buskins and proclaim himself emperor.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick