I felt a strange and insurmountable reluctance to hear the sickening particulars detailed; and as I stood irresolute at some distance from the principal parties, a top-booted squireen, with a hunting whip in his hand, bustling up to a companion of his, exclaimed: ❋ Unknown (2003)
We're just one generationwe're breaking all the links that seemed to bind us here to top-booted and high-stocked generations. ❋ Unknown (1920)
We're just one generation -- we're breaking all the links that seemed to bind us here to top-booted and high-stocked generations. ❋ Unknown (1918)
One would not readily associate the party of top-booted sewermen who descend nightly to the subterranean passages of London with the stout viceconsul at Durazzo. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)
Then more street-cars; then a butcher's cart loaded with the carcasses of calves -- red, black, piebald -- or an express wagon with a yellow cur yelping from its rear; then, it may be, an insolently venturesome landau, with crested panel and top-booted coachman. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)
George Eliot, have a lingering liking for nasal clerks and top-booted clerics, and sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors. ❋ Unknown (1892)
When the sisters drove, their natty little Filipino team flashed through the lanes and streets at top speed, the springy Victoria bounding at their heels to the imminent peril of the cockaded hats of the dusky coach and footman, if not even to the seats of those trim, white-coated, big-buttoned, top-booted, impassive little ❋ Charles King (1888)
Mine, I fear, is not a well-regulated mind: it has an occasional tenderness for old abuses; it lingers with a certain fondness over the days of nasal clerks and top-booted parsons, and has a sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
A stranger will have remarked with surprise that there are but few, very few, of the knee-breeched, top-booted, double-chinned, jolly, old-class farmers amongst the numerous groups who are either watching their sample-bags and waiting for customers, or chewing and smelling handfuls of wheat and barley, and casting what they do not swallow on the flags, already carpeted with grain. ❋ Various (1836)
Lawlesses innumerable, attended by shoals of top-booted shrimps -- the visionary shrimp being a sort of compromise between the boy so called and the real article -- drove impossible dog-carts drawn by quadrupeds whose heads and necks bore a striking resemblance to the waltz-loving ❋ Frank E. Smedley (1835)
Having freed myself from these undesirable bed-fellows I soon fell asleep, and passed (as it seemed to me) the whole night in dreaming that I was a pigeon, or thereabouts, and that Smithson, mounted on the top-booted Sphinx, was inciting Lawless to shoot at me with a red-hot poker. ❋ Frank E. Smedley (1835)
We’re just one generation — we’re breaking all the links that seemed to bind us here to top-booted and high-stocked generations. ❋ Unknown (2003)
[Dam] [earl] did you see that boot top pussy on that [hooker]? ❋ Jimmy Dong (2019)
