Why should I mind the
soles of my feet coming through my boots?
When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club--its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy--aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin
soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.
Having pricked and grievously tom the
soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than the hedge itself.
You know no other daisies ( marguerites ) than those which your April greensward gives your cows to browse upon; while I, a poet, am hooted, and shiver, and owe twelve sous, and the
soles of my shoes are so transparent, that they might serve as glasses for your lantern!
The trousers were finished off with thick boots, weighted with heavy leaden
soles. The texture of the waistcoat was held together by bands of copper, which crossed the chest, protecting it from the great pressure of the water, and leaving the lungs free to act; the sleeves ended in gloves, which in no way restrained the movement of the hands.
"Look out, your
soles will fly off!" shouted the red-haired man, noticing that the
sole of the dancer's boot was hanging loose.
A Newspaper Reporter who had just arrived escaped by climbing a hill near by, and there he found the
Sole Survivor of the expedition - a mule-driver - down on his knees behind a mesquite bush, praying with extreme fervour.
But he took the position, nevertheless; acting as legal representative of the
sole Executor under the second Will.
I's gwine to be
sole into slavery, en in a year you's gwine to buy yo' ole mammy free ag'in.
It was an evil action, of course, but it was the
sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
But in America, the coins current being the
sole arms of the aristocracy, their display may be said, in general, to be the
sole means of the aristocratic distinction; and the populace, looking always upward for models,,are insensibly led to confound the two entirely separate ideas of magnificence and beauty.
And, indeed, it was terrible and wonderful; for it is we alone who, swayed by the audacity of our minds and the tremors of our hearts, are the
sole artisans of all the wonder and romance of the world.