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... walking barefooted ; and in religious cere- monies , the priests frequently took them off while performing their duties in the Temple . " The sandals varied slightly in form ; those worn by the upper classes , and by women , were ...
... walking barefooted ; and in religious cere- monies , the priests frequently took them off while performing their duties in the Temple . " The sandals varied slightly in form ; those worn by the upper classes , and by women , were ...
Page 22
... walking , the leather is sloped away , and rises around it to a point at the back of the leg . None but such as had served the office of Edile were allowed to wear shoes of a red colour , which we may therefore infer to have been as ...
... walking , the leather is sloped away , and rises around it to a point at the back of the leg . None but such as had served the office of Edile were allowed to wear shoes of a red colour , which we may therefore infer to have been as ...
Page 43
... walk about with ease and freedom . It was of course only the nobility who could thus inconvenience themselves , and it might have been adopted by them as a distinction ; still very pointed toes were worn by all who could afford to be ...
... walk about with ease and freedom . It was of course only the nobility who could thus inconvenience themselves , and it might have been adopted by them as a distinction ; still very pointed toes were worn by all who could afford to be ...
Page 48
... walking , a habit that was much ridiculed by the satirists of the day . There was a print published during this reign of a dandy in the height of fashion whose legs are " incased in boot - hose tops tied about the middle of the calf ...
... walking , a habit that was much ridiculed by the satirists of the day . There was a print published during this reign of a dandy in the height of fashion whose legs are " incased in boot - hose tops tied about the middle of the calf ...
Page 53
... walking , which must materially have destroyed any little pliancy which the original shoe would have allowed the foot to retain . The second figure is copied from the first volume of " Hone's Every Day Book , " and that author says ...
... walking , which must materially have destroyed any little pliancy which the original shoe would have allowed the foot to retain . The second figure is copied from the first volume of " Hone's Every Day Book , " and that author says ...
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Page 66 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Page 13 - This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is...
Page 126 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 145 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Page 9 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 45 - The ladies' shoes were of many fashions. " They have corked shoes, puisnets, pantoffles, and slippers," says Stubbs; "some of black velvet, some of white, some of green, and some of yellow, some of Spanish leather, and some of English, stitched with silk and embroidered with gold and silver all over the foot, with other gewgaws innumerable.
Page 124 - ... and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow . The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Page 9 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness : your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Page 76 - A singular custom is observed at conferring the freedom of the burgh. Four or five bristles, such as are used by shoemakers, are attached to the seal of the burgess ticket. These the new-made burgess must dip in his wine, and pass through his mouth, in token of respect for the souters of Selkirk.
Page 68 - There are many of these chapineys of a great height, even half a yard high...