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He saw the priest stow the communion cup away, well in, and kneel an instant before it, showing a large grey bootsole from under the lace affair he had on.

Ulysses 2003

Garric remembered kicking and being surprised when his bare heel instead of a hobnailed bootsole crunched hard against jelly-coated bone.

Lord of the Isles 1997

His bootsole, so carefully sewn into place the day before, flapped free.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

Second Nut or Keeper: Now you've heard about the two-hundred-mile-per-gallon carburetor, the razor edge that never gets dull, the eternal bootsole, the mange pill that's good to your glands, engine that'll run on sand, ornithopters and robobopsters-you heard me, got a little goatee made out of steel wool-jivey, that's fine, but here's one for yo 'mind!

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

He saw the priest stow the communion cup away, well in, and kneel an instant before it, showing a large grey bootsole from under the lace affair he had on.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Early in the day, a Patriot (or some say, it was a Patriotess, and indeed Truth is undiscoverable), while standing on the firm deal-board of Fatherland's Altar, feels suddenly, with indescribable torpedo-shock of amazement, his bootsole pricked through from below; he clutches up suddenly this electrified bootsole and foot; discerns next instant -- the point of a gimlet or brad-awl playing up, through the firm deal-board, and now hastily drawing itself back!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838