shoetops

Irvin said he saw Mays grab a line drive off his shoetops, straighten up, and throw one of those patented strikes to double up the runner at third.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

Carlos Beltran followed with an RBI single before Ryan Church's soft liner was caught by left fielder Brett Carroll, who made a backhanded, game-ending grab at the shoetops.

USATODAY.com 2008

He checked the length in the mirror, cuffs more or less on shoetops, except there were no cuffs.

Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

Vladimir Guerrero grounded a pitch off his shoetops between shortstop Craig Counsell and third baseman Keith Ginter for the

USATODAY.com 2004

She saw Ali in red trunks with reds tassels at his shoetops.

Sound and Fury Dave Kindred 2006

With each step the boy dragged his toes in the rail bed, as if measuring out his journey with careful ruled marks of his shoetops in the gravel.

1000 WORDS*: HIS LAST BOWS TEV 2004

Its wide skirt reached to my shoetops, and the gathers to its full waist were gauged to a sharp peak in front.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

The sea monster and the man with two bootblacks at each shoe, and just as tall as the shoetops, is not much bigger than Bill

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

Her undershirts were full of holes from the rubbing of her cheap, rough corset; her drawers and stockings were patched in several places -- in fact, she could not have worn the stockings had not her skirt now been well below her shoetops.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

Pantalettes of linen, straight and narrow and untrimmed, fell over our modest little legs to our very shoetops.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912