A long, unstockinged shin thrust up into the air, and a bony, slender foot waggled back and forth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As he started to put shoes on unstockinged feet, Brannon caught himself. ❋ Browne, Richard W (2001)
The tail of her blouse hung half out of her skirt and she had shoved her unstockinged feet into a pair of scuffed loafers. ❋ Deborah Crombie (1993)
She liked to rub a leaf between her fingers to feel its velvety texture or, in a daring action for that era, thrust her unstockinged feet into streams to feel the pulsations of the water. ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)
She got in the car, crossed a pair of unstockinged brown legs and smiled. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1985)
He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger. ❋ Ann S. Stephens (N/A)
She started up -- tore off her cap and her night-dress, and thrust her unstockinged feet in a pair of slippers that stood near the bed. ❋ Ann S. Stephens (N/A)
He paused only long enough to draw on his hunting breeches and thrust his bare feet into their tramping boots -- which left a hiatus of unstockinged muscular calf -- hurriedly dropped down the ladder, and in two strides was out of doors. ❋ Eliot H. Robinson (N/A)
His unstockinged feet were encased in carpet slippers. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1939)
The yellow light glinted on her wonderful hair and the brown skin of her unstockinged legs. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1933)
Upon the gleaming deck, blackly outlined against a wondrous sky, stood a man who wore a blue greatcoat over his pyjamas, and whose unstockinged feet were thrust into red slippers. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
Anjou and Berri, brick-floored bedrooms, carpetless salons, déjeûner served on the bare table, and servants in waiting with their unstockinged feet thrust in sabots. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
And how pretty she looked in that little black frock, so ill and hastily put on, one round white shoulder quite out of it, and the long flaxen locks showing their silky fineness as they hung dispersed and tangled, the pinky flush of sleep upon the little face pillowed on the rosy pair of arms, and with a white unstockinged leg doubled under her. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Up I jumped on the instant, hauled on a rough-frieze pea-jacket, thrust my unstockinged feet into their contrary slippers, and followed Harry, on the tips of my toes, along a creaking passage, guided by the portentous ruckling snorts, which varied the ilk profundity of the fat man's slumbers. ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)
In somewhat striking contrast to all this finery were the clumsily accoutred feet, and stout, ill-shaped, brown, unstockinged legs, which the shortness of her Majesty's petticoats, proportioned originally to the stature of a European belle, displayed to ❋ Otto Von Kotzebue (1816)
