Soleless

I tried to scurry away with Keith and Our Jane before he saw the shabbiness of my worn, colorless dress with the hem half out and my scuffed, almost soleless shoes, but Our Jane resisted. ❋ V.C.Andrews (1985)

His clothes were often ragged, and he frequently had to walk twenty miles in a day in shoes that were almost soleless. ❋ Various (N/A)

Another young girl, in remnants of a pretty silk dress, hatless, her fragile shoes soleless, and her feet bleeding, is quite mad from the horrors of seeing her old father shot and her two younger brothers taken away to go before the advancing enemy as shields against English bullets. ❋ Various (N/A)

Tarisio hesitated before entering, feeling suddenly that his appearance was scarcely in keeping with his wares, his clothes being of the shabbiest description, his boots nearly soleless, and his complexion, naturally inclined to blackness, further darkened by the need of ordinary ablutions. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

Canadians, marched with soleless boots, or with no boots at all, but with putties wrapped round the bare feet. ❋ W. E. Sellers (N/A)

The soleless shoes of ox-hide or sheepskin, made by the women out of a single piece, are strapped to the instep. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

His garments hung in tatters; his boots were ripped and soleless. ❋ Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews (N/A)

The men themselves were hardy and bronzed; from their ragged caps to their soleless shoes they bore the stamp of veterans. ❋ Herbert Baird Stimpson (N/A)

He straightens, thrilled from the top of his rather beautiful filthy head to the soleless slippers with which he promenades in rain and frost: ❋ Unknown (1928)

He wore a hat that looked as if it had been through several wars, and on his feet were the remnants, the soleless remnants, of a pair of shoes, fastened there by ordinary grocer's twine. ❋ Unknown (1920)

He had seen a good deal of them from his basement window, and had mended shoes for some of them: they were rather a soleless tribe. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

Old Billy's every line, from his dented top hat to his well-nigh soleless boots, expressed dignity and superiority. ❋ Emma Speed Sampson (1907)

His hands, bronzed by the tan of sixteen summers, were clasped under his head, and his legs were crossed, one soleless shoe on high vaunting its nakedness in the face of an indifferent world. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

Their feet, clad in soft soleless shoes, made of skins, were long and pointed and of almost uncanny flexibility. ❋ Zona Gale (1906)

The kindly hand which had placed him there had drawn over his face a soiled gray hat; his suit was a worn blue serge, dyed now with dark stains, and his feet were encased in patent-leather shoes, cracked and almost soleless. ❋ Nelson Lloyd (1903)

[That bag] over there must be a [prime] example of a soleless ging, let us [investigate] further. ❋ Itsdrewy (2011)