sandalled

• “Robert E. Howard is best known as the father of "sword and sorcery" fiction, an exciting blend of swashbuckling action and supernatural horror epitomized by his characters King Kull, barbarian usurper of the throne of fabled Valusia, and Conan, who wanders the Hyborian Age "to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.”

  TOC: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

• “Like silver, he thought to himself, like tinkling silver bells; and on the instant, and for an instant, he was transported to a far land, where under pink cherry blossoms, he smoked a cigarette and listened to the bells of the peaked pagoda calling straw-sandalled devotees to worship.”

  Chapter 1

• “Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.”

  CONAN STILL A BARBARIAN

• “He had to wait some minutes for the porter to rouse, but the first faint shuffle of sandalled feet within and the rattle of the bolt in its socket were welcome music to him.”

  Fictionaut: A River So Long

• “Her legs, clad in wrinkled woollen stockings, were thin as sticks; her sandalled feet, too large surely for such inadequate supports, were clamped to the footrest of her chair as if glued to the metal.”

  Fictionaut: She Closed Her Eyes

• “If this Liberal who has joined the Conservatives is big enough to put aside my stereotypes of an army of obnoxious blue rinsed Maggies and moronic majors, then Conservatives like you ought to be able to drop this bearded, sandalled beatniks nonsense.”

  We Need To Get A Wide On

• “The hosts were sandalled, and their wings were fire!”

  April 2007

• “Clarice, I know how dirty sandalled feet get when they're out walking in the dirt so I can only imagine a scrub brush was needed.”

  Sunday prairie walk....

• “Think about the native architecture, a sandalled foot of a statute, the ruins, and then Jacobs swamp hut.”

  The Tail Section » Lost Finale Analysis - The Journal

• “In the distance was still seen the dim outline of the island of Saint Serf, once visited by many a sandalled pilgrim, as the blessed spot trodden by a man of”

  The Abbot

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