"Footwear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... footwear. "About right, I'd say. Thought you'd find what you were looking for. A fellow usually does when he goes ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine
... sounds as if it was heavily cleated. What then has he described in this verse? For a person living in a warm climate who had never seen any footwear more complicated than a sandal, he has described a highly polished leather, plastic or ...
— The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel • Arthur W. Orton
... soft-soled moccasin, while his brother of the plains covers the bottoms of his footwear with rawhide, because of the cactus and ...
— Indian Why Stories • Frank Bird Linderman
... to me that it might be advisable to lay down some socks. My idea was in perfect unison with that of my hosier and haberdasher. Socks were going to be unprocurable in a few months. I patted myself on the back and bought up the 1916 vintage of Llama-Llama footwear. The following week thirty-seven shirts arrived and I had to buy ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 28, 1917 • Various
... who kept the shoe store had turned traitor and gathered up his display of sneaks and scout moccasins, and exhibited in their places a lot of school shoes. "Sensible footwear for the student" he called them. Even the drug store where mosquito dope and ice cream sodas had been sold now displayed a basket full of small sponges for the sanitary cleansing of slates. The faithless wretch who kept this ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... time our match was finished Simpson's little footwear trouble was over and he was ...
— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne
... the Victory, I'd be mighty proud to do all I could to look after 'em, Johnnie," spoke Mandy from the shadows, where she sat on the floor at Laurella Consadine's feet, working away with a shoe-brush and cloth at the cleaning and polishing of the little woman's tan footwear. "Ye know I'm a-gittin' looms thar to-morrow mornin'. Yes, I am," in answer to Johnnie's deprecating look. "I'd ruther do it as to run round a week—or a month—'mongst the better ones, huntin' a job, and you here standin' ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... *Hygienic Footwear.*—A necessary aid to erectness of position in standing and walking is a properly fitting shoe. Heels that are too high tilt the body unnaturally forward, and shoes that cause any kind of discomfort in walking lead to unnatural positions in order to protect the feet. Shoes should fit snugly, ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... mauve-colored footstool and hastened rearward toward the swinging-door that led to the emptying workrooms. The tallest of the perfect-thirty-sixes, stepping out of her beaded slippers into sturdier footwear of the street, threw him a smile as he passed that set her glittering earrings and metal-yellow ringlets bobbing like bells ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... now are canvas shoes." I led my companions to a shop displaying rubber-soled footwear. "Articles of leather, gotten only through the slaughter of animals, must be absent on this holy trip." I halted on the street to remove the leather cover from my BHAGAVAD GITA, and the leather straps from my English-made ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda |
