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People said that a certain laxity had crept into his life; that he had never gone near a church latterly, and had been sometimes seen on Sundays with unblacked boots, lying on his elbow under a tree, with a cynical gaze at surrounding objects.

The Woodlanders 2006

His shoes were unblacked, and they were of an elderly shapelessness.

Main Street 2004

The bear-skin housing of my saddle pleased them very much, and my boots of unblacked leather, which they compare to the deer-hide moccasins which they wear for winter hunting.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

My travelling dress is a short costume of dust-coloured striped tweed, with strong laced boots of unblacked leather, and a Japanese hat, shaped like a large inverted bowl, of light bamboo plait, with a white cotton cover, and a very light frame inside, which fits round the brow and leaves a space of

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

I was neither a grown-up nor a child, while my face was unwashed, my hair unbrushed, my clothes tumbled, and my boots unblacked and muddy.

Youth 2003

The tall hat with the well-rubbed nap, the long coat bulging at the elbows, the ill-fitting trousers and unblacked boots might have passed for the same toggery he first wore around the circuit.

Abe Lincoln, Country Lawyer 1954

Knowing the importance that women attach to little things, and what an irreparable impression an ugly cravat or unblacked boots might produce in the most affecting moments, he did not wish to compromise himself by a ridiculous head-gear.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Just now he was trying to practise law, and to edit the Troy _Budget_, a Bucktail newspaper; but he preferred to read, sitting with his unblacked boots on the table, careless of his dress, and indifferent to his personal appearance.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Our boots are the only things we do not much like cleaning, they get so soon dirty again; and we have come to the happy conclusion that unblacked boots have

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

If you were a man, Hester, I would send you on the Continent with 60,000 men, and give you _carte blanche_, and I am sure that not one of my plans would fail, and not one soldier would go with his boots unblacked. '

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston