pantofle

Example Sentences

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If you cough, Jack, after your tobacco, for a punishment you shall kiss the pantofle.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

What pride equal unto his, making Kings kiss his pantofle?

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak

Secondly, whereas you were wont to sweare men on a pantofle to bee true to your puissaunt order, you shall sweeare them on nothing but this Chronicle of the King of Pages henceforward.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

The parents went straight to the Cadi, and complained that they had found their child dead, and Casem's pantofle lying by it, upon which the Judge condemned him to pay a very heavy fine.

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)