slipperless

They were like that, these grand people; they had beautiful manners but nothing superficial escaped them; they made no allowances, they went in for no deceptions, and though it was Caroline who had actually condemned the small, strong feet which now rested, slipperless, on the soft carpet,

The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing 1914

She went quickly down the stairs and sat in the drawing-room, leaving the door open, and after an hour or so she heard stealthy sounds from the room above; drawers were opened carefully and Henrietta, in slipperless feet, padded across the floor.

The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing 1914

Judith whipped on her dressing-gown again and, slipperless, her warm, bare feet pat-patting upon the cold surfaces of the polished floors, she ran to the office.

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

He had dreamed, he said between his sobs, when Virginia, slipperless and in her nightdress, bent over him, that his mother was going away from him forever.

Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Their brown, slipperless feet were caked with sticky mud, and directly they found themselves under shelter in a dry place they dropped the robes they had been holding up, and, bending down, began to flick it off on to the floor with their delicate fingers.

The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

In the meantime, the other two had sped away to the Kasbah, and before Israel had ridden far into the town, the Kaid -- against all usage of his class and country -- ran and met him -- afoot, slipperless, wearing nothing but selham and tarboosh, out of breath, yet with a mouth full of excuses.

The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Hall Caine 1892

Thus guided by its rays he passed out slipperless, till he reached the door of St. Cleeve's room, where he applied the dangling spider's thread in such a manner that it stretched across like a tight-rope from jamb to jamb, barring, in its fragile way, entrance and egress.

Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

His feet were slipperless, Eastern fashion, and his head covered with an embroidered cap of curious make.

Mr. Isaacs 1881

He fitted on the head, and then he covered her up with the sheet; but, in pulling this over her head, he uncovered her feet, which he now perceived to be slipperless.

Ting-a-ling Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Thus guided by its rays he passed out slipperless, till he reached the door of St. Cleeve’s room, where he applied the dangling spider’s thread in such a manner that it stretched across like a tight-rope from jamb to jamb, barring, in its fragile way, entrance and egress.

Two on a Tower 2006