top-booted

I felt a strange and insurmountable reluctance to hear the sickening particulars detailed; and as I stood irresolute at some distance from the principal parties, a top-booted squireen, with a hunting whip in his hand, bustling up to a companion of his, exclaimed:

The Purcell Papers 2003

We're just one generation—we're breaking all the links that seemed to bind us here to top-booted and high-stocked generations.

Book 1, Chapter 4. Narcissus Off Duty. 1920

We're just one generation -- we're breaking all the links that seemed to bind us here to top-booted and high-stocked generations.

This Side of Paradise 1918

One would not readily associate the party of top-booted sewermen who descend nightly to the subterranean passages of London with the stout viceconsul at Durazzo.

The Clue of the Twisted Candle Edgar Wallace 1903

Then more street-cars; then a butcher's cart loaded with the carcasses of calves -- red, black, piebald -- or an express wagon with a yellow cur yelping from its rear; then, it may be, an insolently venturesome landau, with crested panel and top-booted coachman.

With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

George Eliot, have a lingering liking for nasal clerks and top-booted clerics, and sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors.

The Parish Clerk 1892

When the sisters drove, their natty little Filipino team flashed through the lanes and streets at top speed, the springy Victoria bounding at their heels to the imminent peril of the cockaded hats of the dusky coach and footman, if not even to the seats of those trim, white-coated, big-buttoned, top-booted, impassive little

Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888

Mine, I fear, is not a well-regulated mind: it has an occasional tenderness for old abuses; it lingers with a certain fondness over the days of nasal clerks and top-booted parsons, and has a sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

Mine, I fear, is not a well-regulated mind: it has an occasional tenderness for old abuses; it lingers with a certain fondness over the days of nasal clerks and top-booted parsons, and has a sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors.

George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

I felt a strange and insurmountable reluctance to hear the sickening particulars detailed; and as I stood irresolute at some distance from the principal parties, a top-booted squireen, with a hunting whip in his hand, bustling up to a companion of his, exclaimed:

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