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Updated: May 8, 2025
We are the sober ones, you know." "Well, yes and no. I don't mind giving your side a lift it's more my way of thinking than the other and you seem to need it powerfully, too. But" here he looked critically over my blue and buff, from cockade to boot-tops "you don't get any uniform on me, and I don't join any regiment. I'd take my chance in the woods first.
She had come to us a child, and now she was a tall, strong young girl, although her fifteenth birthday had just slipped by. I ran out and met her as she brought her horses up to the windmill to water them. She wore the boots her father had so thoughtfully taken off before he shot himself, and his old fur cap. Her outgrown cotton dress switched about her calves, over the boot-tops.
The exigency of the case was manifest to Helen, when she saw how they came down over the cantles of the saddles and to their boot-tops. The morning was gray and cold. A fine, misty rain fell and the trees dripped steadily. Helen was surprised to see the open country again and that apparently they were to leave the forest behind for a while.
I forgot all about not meaning to get wet, for I was in over my boot-tops directly. But what did it matter out there in the warm sunshine and by the sea! It was rare sport for us, though it was death to the fishes. But the weir was contrived to obtain a regular food supply, and we thought of nothing but catching the prisoners and transferring them to the basket.
As we struggle round the yielding rim, with the powdery sand silting over our boot-tops, we feel something of the wonder of it thrilling through us. Let us sit down here facing it by these broken stones, where we can be a little sheltered from the chilly wind and gritty sand. We are looking at the oldest thing in Egypt.
Both rider and horse went "flying light." The rider's dress was thin, and fitted close; he wore a "round-about," and a skull-cap, and tucked his pantaloons into his boot-tops like a race-rider. He carried no arms he carried nothing that was not absolutely necessary, for even the postage on his literary freight was worth five dollars a letter.
Menard walked across the square and knocked at the door of Major d'Orvilliers's little house. Many an eye had followed him as he hurried by, aroused to curiosity by his tattered uniform, rusted musket, and boot-tops rudely stitched to deerskin moccasins. "Major d'Orvilliers is busy," said the orderly at the door. "Tell him it is Captain Menard."
It entered his gaping waistband, bulging out his yellow trousers till they were fat and full and the seams were bursting, while his yawning boot-tops became as boiling springs. Meanwhile he chattered forth profanity in such volume that the ear ached under it as must have ached the heroic Slapjack under the chill of the melting snow.
"Played cards with a galoot who had some aces in his boot-tops. Plugged him." "What's the matter with your Rees?" "That's just it! You see, that bunch of Sioux out there" he jerked his head toward the stockade "helped in a bit of treachery two summers ago. Rounded up some friendly Rees at a dance and scalped 'em. So there's poison for you!
Eppelein cracked his whip against his leathern boot-tops; old Tetzel's leaden voice cried out to enquire where we were lingering, and a silken train came rustling down the stairs. My lover kissed his hand to me, and I went forth with him into the court-yard. His fiery horse gave him so much to do that he never marked my farewell.
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