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Updated: September 14, 2025
Evidently they found the heat of the cabins painfully oppressive, and most of them lay stretched upon benches and quietly enjoyed the gentle rolling of the vessel. The increasing heat of the deck did not reveal itself to their well-shod feet, and the constant scouring of the boards did not excite any suspicion in their torpid minds.
The result was the instant discovery that some one had passed through this door and down these stairs very much later than years ago. We could see, without taking a step beyond the doorway, traces of a well-shod foot in the dust lying thickly on every tread.
My friend noticed with admiration the well- stockinged, well-shod children, all having good strong shoes stockings evidently bought or made for them, not the ill-fitting belongings of others, gifts of charity or bargains of the pawnshop. The men and women, too, are uniformly well shod, with strong, clean, home-knit stockings.
He always knew what gown she should wear or had worn, and always commented appreciatively on what she had on. Keith merely knew vaguely whether she looked well or ill. Sansome noticed and praised little things her well-shod feet, the red lights in her hair, an unusual flower in her belt. He knew every hat she owned, and he had his well-marked preferences.
When Hugo brought his wife a gift he brought one for his mother as well. "You don't need to think you have to bring your old mother anything," she would say, unreasonably. "Didn't I always bring you something, Ma?" If seventy can be said to sulk, Ma Mandle sulked. Lil, on her way to market in the morning, was a pleasant sight, trim, well-shod, immaculate.
He admired close at hand the beauty which had amazed him from afar. He could see a small, well-shod foot, and measure with his eye a slender and graceful shape. At that time women wore their sash tied close under the bosom, in imitation of Greek statues, a pitiless fashion for those whose bust was faulty.
"Tide's comin' in you'd best be careful," screamed Jinny as he bounded barefoot down the slope; but he was already out of earshot. There sat Jinny on the sunny, wind-swept hill-top; her silk skirt carefully tucked up, and the embroidered frill of her starched white petticoat just resting on her sturdy, well-shod feet.
Feet began to stamp in time to the music softly at first, then more loudly. The wooden dais gave out the sound like a drum. Other rioters joined in from the right. The noise spread through the gallery as a fire spreads through gorse. Soon three hundred pairs of well-shod feet were rising and falling. Somebody began to whistle. Everybody whistled. Mr Kay was on his feet, gesticulating wildly.
Suddenly there breaks upon us the harsh, metallic clang of well-shod horse-hoofs upon the stony roadway the cracking of a postilion's whip the clatter of an approaching carriage. It proves to be a carriage with a pair of horses. Pierre, who has been basking idly under the window, jumps to his feet, shouting, "It is Monsieur the Bishop!"
She had the expression of the pure and unrelenting asceticism of a nun, but four children nearly of an age were with her one a baby in her arms, one asleep with heavy head on her shoulder, the other two, a boy and girl, sitting on the seat with their well-shod little feet sticking straight out, and their little Slav faces, softened by infancy, looked unsmilingly out of the opposite window.
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