stout-shod

Updated: June 16, 2025

The gesture had acted on Darrow's numb feelings as the glow of the fire acted on his circulation; and when he had asked: "Aren't your feet wet, too?" and, after frank inspection of a stout-shod sole, she had answered cheerfully: "No luckily I had on my new boots," he began to feel that human intercourse would still be tolerable if it were always as free from formality.

Edith Wharton - The Reef

But at that moment the Lamb, struggling gaily with Cyril, thrust a stout-shod little foot against his brother's chest; there was a crack! the innocent Lamb had broken the glass of father's second-best Waterbury watch, which Cyril had borrowed without leave. "Grow up some day!" said Cyril bitterly, plumping the Lamb down on the grass. "I daresay he will when nobody wants him to.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - Five Children and It