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
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
He replaced the cover on the box containing the collar and the half-boots.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
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
