bluchers

When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them."

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

And bluchers only please, cap toes look to businessy.

Men's Formal Wear - dfi 2009

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.

Oliver Twist 2007

When derided for mounting a pair of Government “bluchers,” tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, “Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them.”

The Land of Midian 2003

Teddy thought this was a very unkind cut of the mate at poor Jones's boots, which were a dilapidated pair of bluchers that needed mending badly; still, he couldn't help smiling, which didn't seem to please Mr

Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

A pair of hob-nailed bluchers and a battered straw hat gave a somewhat feeble finish to these magnificences.

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

A pair of old bluchers was on one side of the door and a large red watering-can on the other.

The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

Captain Davis let us have five pairs of light bluchers out of the ship's stores, and we reckoned that these with extra soles and a few hobnails would hold out till August or September, when a sealing vessel was expected.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

These absurd little scarlet bluchers with tassels are for little boys; the brown morocco shoes are for grooms

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841