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• In the matters of municipal government, gas, water, fog, and snow, much can be alleged and proved against the English capital, but in the domain of poetry, which I take to be a nation's best guaranteed stock, it may safely be said that there are but two shrines in England whither it is necessary for the literary pilgrim to carry his cockle hat and shoon--London, the birthplace of Chaucer, Spenser, Ben Jonson, Milton, Herrick, Pope, Gray, Blake, Keats, and Browning, and Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
• But shoon or nae shoon, yon's the man for my money Again he has my felicitations," said Count Victor, with a good humour unfailing. —  Doom Castle
• Your father was a kind man to friends and followers; muckle grace to you, Sir John, to fill his shoon--his boots, I suld say, for he seldom wore shoon, unless it were muils when he had the gout Ay, Steenie," quoth the Laird, sighing deeply and putting his napkin to his een, "his was a sudden call, and he will be missed in the country; no time to set his house in order--weel prepared Godward, no doubt, which is the root of the matter--but left us behind a tangled hesp to wind, Steenie.--Hem! —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
• He wore red hose and sandal shoon, and carried in his girdle a Wallet, to contain a roast capon, a neat's tongue, or any other dainty given him. —  The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest
• He would kiss my lady's little shoon, and think the honor too much for king or kaiser. —  A Daughter of Fife

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