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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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Wearing silver boots and a hat, armbands and a smile, he whipped out his paintbrush, so to speak, and in 20 minutes painted pictures of his customers with a flourish - while a fascinated crowd gathered, some gaping in disbelief.


— Barbara Cole (8 February 2008). "Putting fun back into sex". Daily News (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 5. 

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They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.

alan ayckbourn

— A Gardener in Love, Intimate Exchanges (1982)

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The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process. If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

arthur machen

— "The Children of the Pool", in The Children of the Pool and Other Stories (New York: Arno Press, [1936] 1976) p. 83.

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Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.

roger zelazny

— Isle of the Dead

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If he ever went to school without any boots, it was because he was too big for them. SeeWilson 915:89.


— 1949  At the Conservative Party conference, responding to remarks by Harold Wilson about his humble upbringing.

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Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe

— 1974  Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.

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From the [empty] carpet-bag she took out seven flannel night-gowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete.


— 1934  Mary Poppins, ch.1.

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"You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night."

evelyn waugh

— Chapter 5 (Black Mischief (1932))

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The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

anna akhmatova

— Translated by D. M. Thomas.

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Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.

Miguel de Cervantes

— Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let none but he these arms displace, Who dares Orlando's fury face", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter lxvi; Ray, Proverbs; Thomas, English Prose Romance, page 85.

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A man's boots with a woman in them Clatter across the floor.

Norman Alexander MacCaig

— 1960  'Crofter's Kitchen, Evening'.

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Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

john milton

— 1637  Lycidas, l.64-76.

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Look how you use proud words, When you let proud wordsgo, it is not easy to call them back, They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling look out how you use proud words.

Carl Sandburg

— 1922  Slabs of the SunburntWest,'Primer Lesson'.

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Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes,And chide the wayward passions that rebel:Yet boots it not to think, or to complain,Musing sad ditties to the reckless main.To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bellSpeaks of the hour that stays not—and the dayTo life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.

william lisle bowles

— On Landing at Ostend, from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 - With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan (1855)

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He is the last of that old guard defending Cattle Land,Those knights who jousted for the cause — blood brothers of the brand;But now they’ve fenced the water-hole, they’re harrowing the plain,They’re changing all the sagebrush flats to fields of waving grain;The cowmen will be gone, they say, and there are no recruits —Good-bye, brave cattle-puncher in the high-heeled boots!

Arthur Chapman

— The High-Heeled Boots, st. 3

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It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring; into Cinderella's slippers as she danced till midnight; into the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy's boots that tramp; into the magic seven-leaguers. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.

diana cooper

— "Winston and Clementine"

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You take a 22-year-old American, you shoot at him all day long, you deprive him of sleep, you make him see his buddies being killed, he has their blood on his boots and blouse, and when you don't see perfection in his decisions you court-martial him? It's absurd.

paul hackett

— Quoted by reporter Thomas Watkins for the Associated Press

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Who dares this pair of boots displace,Must meet Bombastes face to face.


— William B. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso, Act I, scene 4.

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You want to become competent at whatever you do. That does not mean to get phobics, who shake in their boots while their blood pressure blows through the roof, to believe, "This is not fear." The object is to get them to stay calm and alert, and to stay in their own lane, and to drive across the bridge, which remains standing.


— Richard Bandler, Time for a Change, 1993, p. 2–5

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Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots.


— "Do not pass judgment on somebody until you have been in the same situation, undergone the same experiences, or tried the same thing."
— Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 62. Retrieved on 16 August 2013. 

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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 3, line 59.

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The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden "Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett’s garden!"

james thomas fields

— The Nantucket Skipper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

rudyard kipling

— Gunga Din, Stanza 1.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

john milton

— John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 560

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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay, What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

Sir Walter Raleigh

— Sir Walter Raleigh, Dulcina. See Cayley's Life of Raleigh, Volume I, Chapter III.

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Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.


— William B. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso, Act I, scene 4.

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Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?

john milton

— John Milton, Lycidas (1637), Line 64.

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He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back.

william cowper

— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 5.

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Take off the boots, Americano.


— Who: Bandit #1 from "The Gunslinger's Tragedy"
— Note: The Bandit tries to steal John's shoes after taking his hat. Tired of being mocked, John shoots the Bandit after kneeling down to give the illusion of taking his shoes off.

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