A boot reaching halfway up to the knee.
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Examples for "buskin "
Examples for "buskin "
1 Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.
2 And her height-Tomhad only seen her walk in tragic buskin .
3 From the robe to the buskin , and now from the buskin to the sword!
4 His feet were protected with a sort of buskin ; at his side hung a crude-looking metal spear.
5 We virgins of Tyre are wont to carry a quiver and to wear a buskin of purple.
1 He pushed the last one out the door with his combat boot .
2 Then the big damn combat boot of our careers dropped spikes-first between us.
3 I folded and wrapped the blade and tucked it down into my combat boot .
4 One leg spasmed and his combat boot kicked shards of glass from the frame.
5 As he brought the book out, a size-ten foot in a scuffed combat boot suddenly kicked it from his hand.
1 Left foot: the story of reggae's love affair with Clarks desert boot .
2 The rear car door swung rustily open and a bursting desert boot stepped down onto the running board.
3 As far as this writer is concerned, the most magnificent of all shoes remains the classic suede desert boot .
4 It certainly is a love affair that Clarks in Jamaica documents, and it was the desert boot that began it.
5 I would add to that: weekend brogues, desert boots or chukkas, suede loafers.
1 Under the table lay one top boot , covered with dust.
2 Inside the boots, she had been wearing a pair of curious high- top boot - moccasins with thick back-doubled toes.
3 The Edwardses in their fine top boots and ruffled shirts were there.
4 The rest of his dress consists of leathern trousers and high- topped boots .
5 A large man in corduroys and top boots advanced to meet Carley.
1 Two punctures marred the skin just above the half boot and wayward stocking.
2 Stephenson reached down, removed the surgical knife from his half boot and tossed it.
3 Goy of Alvingham, and stealing 1 pair of new shoes, 1 half boot , and 1 half boot top.
4 They used no sandals; a light and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking they had a kind of coarse half boot .
5 She looked over at him as she pulled off her half boots .
6 Her legs were tangled, heavy, her half boots full of water.
7 He turned - his half boots flashing in the sun-andtriumphantly started off toward the bank.
8 Nearly all were dirty; some had whole boots, some half boots , and two or three had none.
9 The trousers were tight fitting, with broad stripes of silver; and the half boots were of patent leather.
10 I had some half boots ready-made.
11 Even my half boots (though the sole of one of them was tied on to my foot with a broken-bridle rein,) were minutely inspected.
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