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." ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

And bluchers only please, cap toes look to businessy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers. ❋ Unknown (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.” ❋ Unknown (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 ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A pair of hob-nailed bluchers and a battered straw hat gave a somewhat feeble finish to these magnificences. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

A pair of old bluchers was on one side of the door and a large red watering-can on the other. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)

These absurd little scarlet bluchers with tassels are for little boys; the brown morocco shoes are for grooms ❋ Unknown (1891)

'That was a game, wasn't it?' said one of the gentlemen, in a brown coat and brass buttons, inky drabs, and bluchers, at the conclusion of some inaudible relation of his previous evening's adventures. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers. ❋ Unknown (1838)

Democrats and CEOs have turned to Daley for sound advice for decades; he is frank, funny and political down to his bluchers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The basic boxy moccasin shape is fine for deck shoes, bluchers and well-meaning undergraduates, but what I wanted was 1950s sophisticate, not 1950s squeaky-clean. ❋ By DAVID COLMAN (2010)

And Eulalie, in the time I knew her, never paid for a blessed thing — it was part of her allure — and when, under duress, she admitted that she owed two thousand francs to the dressmaker and another thirteen hundred to the upholsterer and, oh, God knows what else, it was the most natural thing in the world to sell my father's land and walk about in muddy bluchers and a single black suit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During the cool season — a generous half of the year — dews are common — not the trivial barely perceptible moisture called dew in some parts, but most ungentle dew, which saturates everything and drips from the under sides of verandahs as the sun warms the air; dew which bows the grass with its weight, soaks through your dungarees to the hips, and soddens your thick bluchers, until you feel and appear as though you had waded through ❋ Unknown (2003)