half-boots
Example Sentences
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Her new dress is extravagant: Russian half-boots of violet-blue velvet trimmed with ermine, and a skirt of the same material, decorated with narrow stripes and rosettes of furs.
From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage
Failing that, he kicked the steelwork with his heavy half-boots, yet no response came to his appeal.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
Old Hector grinned as Donald, in woolen shirt, mackinaw, corduroy trousers, and half-boots came into the little lobby, for in his son he saw a replica of himself thirty years agone.
From Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
His cravat was gone; his fair young chest exposed; his velvet surtout torn and stained; his striped silk stockings in tatters; the bunches of ribbon wrenched from off his half-boots.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Having converted his half-boots into sandals, he travelled with more ease.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
