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  • Sure enough, she reached the window just in time to see Jason, feet somehow crammed into riding-boots, galloping off towards the cliff-top trail.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • And in the corner his riding-boots, one overturned and displaced, as if a foot had kicked it aside.

    His Disposition 2010

  • For a while ere the Major retired to divest himself of his riding-boots, he and his hostess paced the gallery in talk.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Both of the two gentlemen were dressed alike, in small scratch-wigs without powder, in blue frocks with plate buttons, in buckskins and riding-boots, in little hats with a narrow cord of lace, and no outward mark of fashion.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Having already arrayed himself in his best silk stockings, black satin-net breeches, and neatest pumps, Harry did not care to take off his shoes as his antagonist had done, whose heavy riding-boots and spurs were, to be sure, little calculated for leaping.

    The Virginians 2006

  • So, scrambling into his riding-boots and breeches as quick as he could, he rode off towards the meet, intending to be back in an hour.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • This was a man of some eloquence, and his calling in life was cobbling, and to encourage him therein, and keep him from theology, the rector not only forgot his half guinea, but sent him three or four pairs of riding-boots to mend, and let him charge his own price, which was strictly heterodox.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • By-the-way, that touch about my pleading his cause in my riding-boots, and with a sessional air about me, is worthy of the great Verdoni.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The servant could not see much of this visitant with any distinctness; his dress appeared foreign, the skirt of his ample cloak was thrown over one shoulder; he wore a large felt hat, with a very heavy leaf, from under which escaped what appeared to be a mass of long sooty-black hair; his feet were cased in heavy riding-boots.

    The Purcell Papers 2003

  • He had an old waterproof on his back, and a pair of riding-boots of buffalo-leather which were still left to him.

    Household Tales 2003

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