half-boots
Example Sentences
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They were longer in coming to the surface than they anticipated, owing to the weight of their half-boots, which they had been unable to remove without risk of causing suspicion.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
He was dressed in a slouch hat, a flannel shirt, a wrinkled old business suit and mud-splashed, laced half-boots.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
Between the loose short trousers and the clumsy half-boots, replacing the sandals that were the customary wear of the person described, several inches of lean and sinewy leg were visible.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
Instead of wearing puttees, like his commander, he wears half-boots, like those on the figurine discovered by Dawkins at Petsofa.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
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
