half-boots
Example Sentences
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Mahommed gave him a pair of red morocco half-boots for a child, on which, near the tops, a name was worked in silk.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
I wore a white doublet with a pair of white hose and a pair of half-boots, into which I had stuck the poniard I have mentioned.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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
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 Francis Leopold McClintock
It is laid in the regulations of Mr. Tyson, M.C., who directed that “no gentleman in boots or half-boots be admitted into the rooms on ball nights or card nights.”
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
