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Those eyes may have goggled from beneath the weeds at Napoleon's jack-boots: they have seen Frederick's lean shanks reflected in their pool; and perhaps Monsieur de Voltaire has fed them, and now for a crumb of biscuit they will fight, push, hustle, rob, squabble, gobble, relapsing into their tranquillity when the ignoble struggle is over. Sans souci, indeed!
By Heaven! cried my father, springing out of his chair, as he swore I have not one appointment belonging to me, which I set so much store by as I do by these jack-boots they were our great grandfather's brother Toby they were hereditary. Then I fear, quoth my uncle Toby, Trim has cut off the entail. I declare I would not have taken ten pounds for them.
Never having seen a ghost before, he naturally was terribly frightened, and, after a second hasty glance at the awful phantom, he fled back to his room, tripping up in his long winding-sheet as he sped down the corridor, and finally dropping the rusty dagger into the Minister's jack-boots, where it was found in the morning by the butler.
The jack-boots of the postilions don't seem so huge elsewhere, or the tight stockings of the maid-servants so Gallic.
The uniform in which he was now attired, a blue coat, namely, with gold lace, a scarlet waistcoat and breeches, and immense jack-boots, seemed to have added fresh stiffness and rigidity to his tall, perpendicular figure; and the consciousness of military command and authority had increased, in the same proportion, the self-importance of his demeanour and the dogmatism of his conversation.
Souvenirs of Bosworth field a pair of huge jack-boots, a two-handed sword, and a battered helmet hung over the chimney-piece in the low-ceiled hall; but the end of the civil war was but a memory when the Manor House was built.
It was, after all, a man with a two days' beard, a very dirty face, a collarless, grimy shirt, who wore heavy ankle Jack-boots, and had his trousers rolled above his ankles. This person accosted me brusquely. "What are you doing in that cottage there?" he asked me, and I asked in turn, "what business of his that might be."
Where there had been some great dictionaries, Giglio's friends found two pairs of jack-boots labelled, 'Lieutenant Smith, Jones, Esq., which fitted them to a nicety. Besides, there were helmets, back and breast plates, swords, etc., just like in Mr.
He made up his mind to wear the cassock and bands as another man does to wear a breastplate and jack-boots, or to mount a merchant's desk for a livelihood from obedience and necessity, rather than from choice.
'Tis even high time; for except a short nap, which they both got whilst Trim was boring the jack-boots and which, by-the-bye, did my father no sort of good, upon the score of the bad hinge they have not else shut their eyes, since nine hours before the time that doctor Slop was led into the back parlour in that dirty pickle by Obadiah.
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