half-boots
Example Sentences
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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
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 Carl von Linn?
The shoes worn at this place in some measure resemble half-boots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?
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
The black half-boots, the white doeskin breeches, the brown brass-buttoned frock, and the white hat with the brown cockade.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
