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half-boots



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Their high half-boots hit the enemy soil early in the moonlit night of July 9, 1943�hours before Allied landing barges disgorged infantry, tanks and artillery on Sicily's shore.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now the infantry burst into view, a gloomy, solid column tramp, tramp along the road—jägers, with their stiff fore-and-aft shakos, dull-green tunics, and snuffy, red-striped trousers tucked into dusty half-boots.

From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Wingfield, Lewis

Some of the people hereabouts clean their half-boots and harness with the fat of fish; others purchase blacking from Norway.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von

Besides these slippers there were a pair of small strong shooting half-boots.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold




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