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The boy, who, perhaps, acted as assistant at the operation, may have thought it necessary to drink his master's heeltaps by way of safeguard.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
He raised his glass and drank it off: no heeltaps.
From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond
The little business plied by the good portress must have been progressing finely, for the cellarlike hole under the stairs was wet with emptied heeltaps and water.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
Also, a sofa, of incomprehensible form regarded from any sofane point of view, murmured ‘Bed;’ while an air of mingled fluffiness and heeltaps, added, ‘Second Waiter’s.’
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
Supernac′ūlum, wine fit to be drunk to the last drop with no heeltaps, anything very choice.—adv. to the last drop.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
