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Updated: May 1, 2025
"And what is the news, then, old woman?" said the impatient glover, still busying himself with the hundred points or latchets which were the means of attaching the doublet to the hose.
There was a slight gash on one grimy cheek, possibly caused by contact with the latchets of Karlov's boots. She raised the handsome head, pressed it to her bosom, and began to sway her body from side to side. Tumult. The Federal agents were throwing their bodies against the door repeatedly. In the semi-darkness Cutty fought for his life. But Kitty neither heard nor saw.
There were previous years of yearning and dreaming while he fretted beneath the yoke of galling servitude to newspaper editors unworthy to loose the latchets of Brann's shoes.
And the caligce were also proper to the monastic bodies; for we read in an ancient glossarium upon the rule of Saint Benedict, in the Abbey of Saint Amand, that caligae were tied with latchets. 'That will apply to the brogues, said Fergus.
James and I sat, I don't know how long, but for some time, saying nothing: he started up abruptly, and with some noise went to the table, and, putting his right fore and middle fingers each into a shoe, pulled them out, and put them on, breaking one of the leather latchets, and muttering in anger, "I never did the like o' that afore!" I believe he never did; nor after either.
James and I sat, I don't know how long, but for some time saying nothing: he started up abruptly, and with some noise went to the table, and putting his right fore and middle fingers each into a shoe, pulled them out, and put them on, breaking one of the leather latchets, and muttering in anger, "I never did the like o' that afore!" I believe he never did; nor after either.
Then they sent an old man to him to ask who he really was. "Are you the Messiah whom we are expecting?" "I am not the Messiah," answered the preacher. "But he is coming after me. I prepare the way for him like the morning breeze ere the sun rises. As the heaven is above the earth, so is he greater than I. It is my prayer that I may be worthy to loosen his shoe latchets.
I would not kiss any man's dirty latchets for leave to bake in his oven."
As he fumbled, in a very panic and spasm of fear, with the latchets of his front gate Squire Jonas' wife heard him screaming to Aunt Kassie, his servant, to turn on the lights all of them. That once was all, though the only time he found the dark taking him unawares and threatening to envelop him in thirty years and more than thirty.
I am not known here as the 'Wandering Minstrel." Kenelm glanced at the man's attire, and for the first time observed the change. It was still picturesque in its way, but it was such as gentlemen of the highest rank frequently wear in the country, the knickerbocker costume, very neat, very new, and complete, to the square-toed shoes with their latchets and buckles.
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