| 单词 | slippered |
| 例句 | I was eating breakfast and reading the paper when she began to kick on the back door with her slippered foot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He leans back now, his slippered feet bobbing, the drink maybe getting to him, and he says, You’ve almost got it, there, but something is still missing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A good, hearty dinner below the hatches; a nice, soft, dilapidated couch on which to sprawl; a copy of the Times; slippered feet and shirtless chest;—how could anyone help but be comfortable? I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I heard Lily then, shuffling down the hall on her way to the kitchen, her slippered feet making a swishing sound on the hardwood floor. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z If so, then she was obviously a surprise to them, by the suspicion and downright hostility with which the deacons’ wives were surveying her from feathered hat to slippered toe. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He put his slippered feet up on a long, low coffee table, a chess board inset in the middle, cigarette burns and mug rings on its surface. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In one picture, the lizard man was standing on a curved bridge, laughing as he watched the little boy falling forward over the bridge rail, his slippered feet already in the air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Bowing deeply, the eunuch hurried from the common room on soft slippered feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The soft scuff of slippered feet on the steps was the only sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She dreaded the roar of the ignition, and placed her hands over her ears to block out the sound as she pressed her slippered feet to the gas, revving the engine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He glimpsed movement, heard the soft scuffling sound of slippered feet on stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her slippered feet slid a little on the cold tile when she burst into the kitchen, where Cook was laughing with Henry over some joke or another. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He heard his father’s slippered feet hurrying down the stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She tucks her slippered feet under our arms, clenching her muscles in pain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I can tell that one of her slippered feet holds up most of her weight, but I’ve never seen her have the energy to come up the stairs before. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Gregory's use of language made me feel as though I was walking with Katherine on slippered feet through the halls of the Alhambra Palace in Granada. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z When it was shown in Warsaw, two members of the Polish Parliament angrily removed the meteorite and then, in an act of almost touching folly, tried to stand the pontiff up on his slippered feet. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z In slippered feet, Herde, 72, briefly sprayed his mobile home with a garden hose against the furnace-like winds before fleeing in his Toyota Corolla. When utilities spark wildfires in Washington, they can ‘burn down your house and get away with it’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z As I followed her slippered feet around indoors, she became my best friend. I struck gold on TikTok, and in life, with my Korean grandma 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z As he walked off the stage following his media session, he moved methodically, carefully applying the right amount of weight onto each of his slippered feet. Banged-up Heat have no choice but to embrace underdog role 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Maria Vallardes came to the door in slippered feet, a pomeranian yipping behind her. 'He's working for it': why Latinos are rallying behind Sanders 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z England had led for a little more than an hour, after Kieran Trippier slippered a free kick into the top corner. World Cup 2018: The Tragicomic Opera of Croatia’s Mario Mandžukić 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Many in their 60s and beyond, they should be entering Shakespeare’s sixth age of man, “into the lean and slippered pantaloon/ With spectacles on nose and pouch/ On side.” ‘The last free space in America is a parking spot’: On the road with a new kind of workforce. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Saunders clearly took particular interest in the woman's elaborate hairstyle, fine clothing, and her slippered, unbound feet. Rare 19th century photographs of Shanghai - BBC News 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He puffed at the pipe in silence, and luxuriously stretched his slippered feet towards the warmth of the fire. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z She was fairly tall, too—though dwarfed by Armathwaite's six feet and an inch of height in his slippered feet—and admirably proportioned, if slender and lithe. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z He slippered his way across the floor to get a stool for her. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The merchants are grave men: they move softly and slowly on their fat slippered feet, pausing from time to time in confidential talk. In Morocco 2012-03-05T03:00:11.463Z He pointed to his slippered feet, his old clothes, and held up his hands, black with oil and grease, I took in the details of his appearance, feeling a little bewildered. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z He was sitting by the dining-room fire, with his slippered feet on the fender, and a nearly emptied whisky bottle on the corner of the table near his elbow. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Like her charming model, Daphne wore a quaint shepherdess dress, that spread about her dainty slippered feet in soft billows. The Twins in the South 2012-02-13T03:00:16.113Z Ethel was hopping heavily from one slippered foot to the other. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z That evening, on his return from business, he found his carnation-bed despoiled, and the tiny imprint of slippered feet silently bearing witness to the small thief. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z "Poor little lamb!" cried Meg, in another access of pity, clasping the baby to her bosom with one hand, holding its winsome slippered feet in the other. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They looked forward, after the tempest that had so lately ravaged Europe, to a golden age of slippered ease and general stagnation. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z They stood without sound or movement, until, as the light strengthened a little, the door opened and a mestiza girl in slippered feet and partial attire came out, carrying an earthen water-vessel. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z “Now, this,” said Mr. Howbridge, sitting in a great chair with his slippered feet outstretched toward the fire, “is what I call country comfort.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z I was about to make a second stand, when again there came a stealthy tap at the door, and the whispering of slippered feet. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It was my next old gentleman who introduced me to Shakespeare and the 'lean and slippered pantaloon.' Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z A very faint humming sound filled the room, and made a somewhat uncanny accompaniment to the leisurely tick of the clock and the irregular shuffling of the doctor's slippered feet. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z The old collector shuffled his slippered feet, and his antique treble took on an argumentative tone. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z We could hear slippered feet mounting a stair and approaching. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z I heard the sup-sup of her slippered feet down the stair. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Every where the hat is in juxtaposition with the turban, and the boot of the active Christian galls the slippered heel of Mahomet's indolent follower, spurring him to progress and improvement. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z It was one of our old-time silent meals, although we talked in a desultory manner, while the slippered servitors were in the room. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z There was a movement in the room beyond, and Ned could hear the soft tread of slippered feet and occasionally the rattle of dishes. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z It is not, however, the apartment where "the last new novel will lie upon the table, and where my daintily slippered feet will rest upon the velvet cushion." Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z She put her slippered feet on the fender and continued her study of her sister’s face. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z A full-grown altar-"boy," black as his robes, and slippered, swung the heavy censer, and looked over the audience for possible disturbances. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z She had worn a scarlet house-gown in the evening; the trailing folds swept the floor around her slippered feet now, her bare arms gleamed below the sleeves that only reached beyond the elbow. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z If I must ride, I demand a tired horse, who has cropped his wild oats and has come to a slippered state. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Two pairs of slippered feet stole noiselessly along the broad aisle between the tables. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z She was sitting in the hammock and touching one slippered toe to the flagstones for the swinging push. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z I didn't know what to answer, and blessed Fong's sleek black head, as slippered and silent, he slid in to announce dinner. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z “Oh! oh! oh!” screamed the stranger as she spattered into the water in her slippered feet. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Whatever might be her personality or her real character, she was alive from the crown of her red head to the tips of her slippered toes. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z With the quick military tread came the frou-frou of silk and the footfall of slippered feet. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z She looked at her pretty slippered feet inquiringly. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z Other innovators had followed suit, including Leigh Hunt in that slippered, sentimental, Italianate fashion of his own. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Not all the beauties in old prints vignetted, The worthless products of an outworn age, With slippered feet and fingers castanetted, The thirst of hearts like this heart can assuage. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The host, in his old brown dressing-gown, sat with his slippered feet up on the table, and puffed at his long-stemmed pipe. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z The man slippered off towards the office, in the interior of the hotel; leaving Mr Swinton, for it was he, upon the door-mat. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Dolores stamps her little slippered foot with decision; she is trembling with passion. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z After lighting his cigar, he threw himself into a large Turkish chair, rested his head upon the soft-cushioned back, and extended his slippered feet towards the grate fire, his legs crossed. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z It was in this room that the five kimonoed and slippered travelers assembled after hot baths of a refreshing and reanimating character. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z A bright turf fire burned in a room in Bishop's Court, and the Bishop sat before it with his slippered feet on a sheepskin rug. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Very soon I heard the dull tramp of slippered feet on the corridor without. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The Major gently rubs one slippered foot over the other, and watches Blondine thread her needle with yellow floss. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z But the time when my slippered feet were to tread on thornless flowers has not arrived. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z In the venerable picture of the Censor, we have no traces of second childhood, or of the slippered pantaloon, or of that melancholy and almost frightful representation, in the tenth satire of Juvenal. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth. Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris 2011-03-16T00:06:00Z His slippered feet like lightning flew; the bells upon his robes rang out, and he would twirl upon his toes until his many-colored baggy robes stood out and he seemed like a brilliant human top. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z He felt an antagonism toward "the ladies" in their exclusive aristocratic designation even before he heard the first dainty touch of their slippered feet upon the great stairway, or a gush of fairylike treble laughter. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Mr. Hinchford was in a reflective, wide-awake mood, and not inclined for rest just then; he sat with his slippered feet on the fender, puffing away at his meerschaum. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z Up and down the wet lawns we walked, bareheaded and in our slippered feet. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z And sometimes at night,—even after the solemn tolling of the half-past nine curfew,—slippered feet ran about the dim corridors with as little noise as the mice made behind the wainscoting. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z His slippered feet made no sound, so quite unheralded he came upon the woman and the little girl on the wide veranda steps. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Pretty Miss Morgan looked amazed, and tapped her daintily slippered foot in a vexed way at the ungallant disappearance of her acquaintance. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Robert were still dressed as at the moment of the surprise, their naked feet light slippered, he with a night-cap and white ducks on, she in a morning-jacket and short petticoats. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z That evening, to his great surprise and extreme discomfort, he was taken out and slippered by a self-appointed vigilance committee. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Stockbridge moved his slippered foot and pressed a button under the larger table. Whispering Wires "But what an infernal disgrace!" cried the colonel, shuffling to his slippered feet. Witching Hill "You must be a very selfish woman—I think the most selfish I have ever known," she said coolly, tapping the floor with her little slippered feet, as if keeping time to a waltz. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches The door opened and the Professor stepped out, gowned and slippered. A Yankee from the West A Novel Here Concha pouted adorably, and with her slippered toe kicked a footstool which certainly was not doing her any harm. The Firebrand She stamped her slippered foot upon the thick pile of the rug before the doorway. Whispering Wires It is in allusion to this that Shakespeare calls the sixth age of man, "the lean and slippered pantaloon." The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Again the bathrobe was gathered high above the grotesquely slippered feet; again the figure shuffled along, moving toward the doorway. In And Out It was just on the silver edge of the third day that a wistful woof on our porch sent four hastily slippered feet skurrying to the door. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road In her terror lest she should have been overheard, she did not pause another instant, but threw up the sash and hastily put one slippered foot on the ledge. The Youngest Girl in the School The minutes passed tediously, but at last the door opened, and there appeared Dr. Medjora, only partly dressed, his feet slippered. A Modern Wizard There were forty-eight—gray-haired men and puny boys—all ragged, and stalking with slippered feet from end to end with listless eyes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. And yet, amidst the darkness and the rising waves of apparently a shoreless ocean, the spirit of Napoleon was as unperturbed as if he were reposing in slippered ease upon his sofa. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 At eight all lights must be put out, and silence reigns in every hall, the slippered night-guards alone gliding through the long and dimly-lighted galleries like so many spectres. About London Some glide with slippered lightness through the boudoirs of beauty; while others press the spurred boot in furious battle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The warehouses with their stacks of bags, slippered blue-trousered handymen, surpliced overseers with their sampling hollow bayonets, railway trucks and capstans, ubiquitous dogs and all, began to recede. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Before him was a table covered with writing materials, books, pamphlets, prints, and drawings; his great arm-chair was the very ideal of lounging luxury, and in the soft carpet his slippered feet were almost hidden. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago In ordinary the loft was never entered, nowadays, except by some slippered maid, or Michael with a trunk. Dorothy at Oak Knowe Plowing through the dancers and out of the door, in the corridor he ran into Steward Davis, gliding along on silent, slippered feet. The Star Lord The sixth age shifts To lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose—his is a graft! The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 She walked swiftly, her robe trailing behind, her slippered feet twinkling in and out under the nightgown she wore. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure Eugene could not help smiling at the lean, slippered subtlety of the man, young as he was. The "Genius" Somewhere, down below, she distinctly heard a soft noise like the patter of slippered feet. Under Padlock and Seal Now, fairly flying up the old, creaky stairs, light as kittens', quick as terriers', yet stealthy, almost noiseless, he distinctly heard slippered footfalls. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Two or three slippered turns up and down the room, very cautious lest they should wake her ladyship in the adjoining one, were all the case required. When Ghost Meets Ghost Her slippered feet made no sound; the wool robe did not rustle. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure "Put these on, quick!" she whispered, lifting first one slippered foot and then the other and supporting the trembling Betty in her strong young arms, while she snapped on the rubbers. Exit Betty Jacqueline’s foot–a small digression, at most–was slippered in blue, and this she pillowed on a cushion of red. The Missourian As he let himself in with his key, a slippered step shuffled from the rear to greet him. The Monk of Hambleton He was sitting, in his dressing gown, with his slippered feet resting upon a stool. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs She knew the light tread of the slippered feet but too well––it was Pluma. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love He couldn't take any exercise just then, for his last attack of gout had been very severe, and his left foot was still swathed and slippered. Jan and Her Job “Oh, bother!” she exclaimed; and, thrusting her slippered feet upon the stove, tucked her skirts about her. The Twins of Suffering Creek A shuffling of slippered feet, and voices singing, signify that a dance is pending. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The colonel's slippered step was coming down the stairs. The Prisoner “I would not listen to you ten minutes to-night if I actually knew it was to save your life,” cried the haughty beauty, stamping her slippered foot impatiently. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love You are lounging, perhaps, upon a softly cushioned divan, with tiny, slippered feet half buried in the glowing carpet. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The kitten fair, whose graceful wile So oft had won his musing smile, As round his slippered foot she played, Stretched on his vacant pillow laid. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 The Express, which had been a slippered, dozing, senile sheet under old Jimmie Bruce, burst suddenly into a volcanic youth. Counsel for the Defense Once she would have stopped for neither; but now folding the warm little garment about her she tiptoed past old Dinah, snoring, and down the thickly carpeted stairs, whereon her slippered feet made no sound. Dorothy's House Party Her slippered feet made no sound, and the stillness all over the house was profound; but, just as she turned the first landing, it was broken again. Divided Skates The good man lay low, with his slippered feet between the bars of the closed gate. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome She looked down, self-pitying, at her poor slippered feet standing in a pool of rain. The Combined Maze Throughout the account, the listener sat sprawled in the big willow rocker, his slippered feet resting 168 on the porch rail. Heart of the Blue Ridge Two o'clock by the dressing-table watch, and still the noiseless slippered feet of the sleepless man came and went. Somehow Good There were forty-eight—grey-haired men and puny boys—all ragged, and stalking with slippered feet from end to end with listless eyes. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Norma said, stamping a slippered foot, and beginning to cry with hurt and helplessness. The Beloved Woman Here is a stall so confined that the occupant, rocking in his chair near the farther end of it, stretches his slippered feet well out upon the threshold. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 She wore a gay flowered dressing-gown much too youthful in style, her slippered toes were stretched out to the crackling fire, and a cup of fragrant tea was in her hand. 'Lizbeth of the Dale You would never guess A dolly could be so very sweet, Or have such grace, From the blooming face Down to the tips of her slippered feet. The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The mulatta did not seem either to expect, or care for an answer: for on giving utterance to the fiendish insinuation, she turned upon her slippered heels, and hobbled back towards the camp. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness With a characteristic shrug of distaste and annoyance, of dismissal as well, he resumed his seat, his slippered feet spread wide to catch the heat. The Dominant Dollar His slippered feet spurned the thin snow as he moved rapidly back toward the west. The Life of the Party Nevermore should I see my peaceful study at Fernbridge Seminary for Young Ladies, with its cozy armchair, its comforting stool, or rest, for the slippered feet, its neatly arranged tea table! Fibble, D.D. She wore a long cloak stretching to the ground, and from under it slippered feet peeped out. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 There was an abrupt silence—the sound of Suzette's slippered feet—and the scrap of paper disappeared. A Village of Vagabonds On the top of the mass was perched a little old man in a skull cap, a slippered foot in a scarlet sock airily waving at one side. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern I found Conkwright in his office, with his slippered feet on a table. The Jucklins A Novel A few moments after Claire's door had closed for the last time, Madeline came cautiously from her room, her slippered feet making no sound on the softly carpeted floor. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter For answer the man moved impatiently, and angrily slapped one of his slippered feet over the other. A Sheaf of Corn The sound was followed by the soft padding of slippered feet in the hall, the low tapping, evidently at another door, a few low-voiced words, and a return of the padding steps. The Gold Girl Nor did Mr. Le Clear toast his slippered feet before his cheery fire without an uncomfortable misgiving that his philosophy hardly compassed the sphere of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Such persons had better leave their feet at home safely slippered on the fender. Chimney-Pot Papers The weed fell from his fingers to the ground, and Cora set her slippered heel upon it, as if it were an enemy, and laughed triumphantly. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter The prospect of sponging on Puffin was most exhilarating, and he put his large slippered feet on to the fender. Miss Mapp Then softly slippered feet shambled out of the darkness, and Gordon stood revealed as well as the light would allow. Gold Out of Celebes Who shall no longer sit up late, Because her long-suffering roommate—” Here the gas flared suddenly into darkness, and slippered feet scurried away from the desk. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Can it be that all villains come at last to a slippered state? Chimney-Pot Papers Her trailing robe of light blue cr�pe de chine was edged with swansdown, and she drew it about her, as she noiselessly tiptoed along in her slippered feet. Patty's Social Season I am slippered and jacketed, and, like that same starling who is so very seldom quoted, can't get out. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete And punctually at a quarter to five the professor might have been seen making his way, on slippered feet, into the pilot-house. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure A cur yelped at their feet as they approached the house, and an old man, coatless and slippered, opened the door, holding an oil lamp high above his head. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure He had fancied that he had seen her standing there framed, leaning out, and then—— Yes, surely he had heard the running of slippered feet along the pavement. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel At last Nelly and I got up-stairs and undressed, and the pad of Jud’s slippered feet about the kitchen premises—where he was carrying up from the cellar things that might freeze—ceased. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays At that moment there was a shuffling of slippered feet on an upper landing, and Jem-y-Lord called down, "Is it you, your Honour?" The Manxman A Novel - 1895 And the bunch of ruffles and brown ribbon shook its head with distinctive force, while the bits of slippered feet began to dance wildly up and down the hall. Six Girls A Home Story Their slippered stupidity was a desecration of her mother’s memory. The Job An American Novel “The world,” say the slippered pantaloon and the mumbling grandame, “was a fine place when we were young.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly He had expected to hear the noise of machinery, but beyond the strangled voices, occasionally the click of glass against glass and the shuff-shuff-shuff of slippered feet crossing the floor, he heard nothing. The Green Rust Anna, dark, vivid, and slender, was perched on the edge of the table, idly swinging her slippered foot at the cat's head. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Everything about her matched her sweet old-fashionedness, from the crown of her soft brown hair, dressed in the style of her long ago girlhood, to the toes of her daintily slippered feet. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 The girl remained where she was, on the side of her bed, her slippered feet dangling, her eyes fixed on a spot where there was a three-cornered break in the dirty-gray plastering. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights They were the feet of the reserve guard, which was never called in save when the patrol who glided around the corridors in slippered feet discovered some suicide. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Whereupon Grandpa fell to saluting, and calling out commands in his quavering old voice, and trying to stand upon his slippered feet. The Rich Little Poor Boy Madame Lepelletier is on the shaded porch, sitting in a hammock; a scarlet cushion embroidered with yellow jasmine supports her head and shoulders, and her daintily slippered feet rest on a soft Persian rug. Floyd Grandon's Honor But," and he stared disapprovingly at our slippered feet, "them don't look like range hoofs to me. Land of the Burnt Thigh She shut her eyes angrily and thrust out her slippered foot at the sleeping hound. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine The burden of the ghastly monotone was in her brain, her tired heart kept beating out the cadence that her little slippered feet echoed along the gravel—War! war! Lorraine A romance It was just as the tale of Edith Cavell ended that, most opportunely, who should come stealing in but Mrs. Kukor, pushing the door open with a slippered foot, for each hand held a dish. The Rich Little Poor Boy It is small and soft and white, and the one slippered foot might vie with Cinderella's. Floyd Grandon's Honor The mother and daughter were both very still until the shuffling of the physician’s slippered feet was heard in the passage. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century How absurd her becoming hat would have seemed, how grotesque her daintily slippered feet! There was a King in Egypt The "lean and slippered pantaloon" was originally one of the stock characters of the old Italian comedy. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) His imitation of a starting engine was so genuine that it shook his spare frame from his head to his slippered feet. The Rich Little Poor Boy Being addressed, he looked up at his sister, who sat sidewards on the edge of a table slightly removed, swaying a dainty slippered foot to and fro in evident impatience. At Fault "Well, Janet, and what have you to tell me?" he said kindly, as he stretched out his slippered feet to the blaze, and took down his pipe from the mantel-piece. A True Friend A Novel Now and again a draught taking the folds of her silken raiment blew it hither and thither, disclosing her beautiful arms or quick-moving slippered feet. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Now it is a regiment of soft lights, each carrying its message of cheer and promises of tea, armchair, and slippered ease. Nights in London Something, possibly, in Willett's devotional attitude vaguely troubled the girl, and, edging back in her chair, she had lifted a little slippered foot from the floor. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War "How nice!" exclaimed Peace, glancing involuntarily at the slippered feet resting on the cushioned stool of Dr. Campbell's great Morris chair. Heart of Gold His legs were stretched out, and his slippered feet rested on the edge of the brass fender. The Collaborators 1896 Poplanas with short skirts and slippered feet pass my window; and groups of “tame” Indians, pueblos, crowd in from the neighbouring rancherias, belabouring their donkeys as they go. The Scalp Hunters "No, but——" Again there came a stealthy tap at the door, again the whispering of slippered feet. Nights in London Yet as her mind went over and over these things, her little slippered feet led the march. Mistress Anne Mr. McElwin put aside his newspaper and paced slowly up and down the room, his slippered feet falling with an emphatic pat on the carpet. Old Ebenezer They called her, and she turned deliberately, one dainty, slippered foot, with its crossed black ribbons about the slender ankle, just leaving the stair below, and showing the arch of the aristocratic instep. Marcia Schuyler She has descended some little flight of stairs, for he could hear the patter of her slippered feet, and the swish of her skirts before she appeared. A War-Time Wooing A Story Resting on one slippered foot and extending the other before him, he folded his arms and remained a few moments wrapped in thought. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Out went Mademoiselle Ad�le, and her slippered footsteps faded up the staircase. Despair's Last Journey The whole front of the little house was in darkness, but by-and-by even Reuben from his post behind the hedge heard the faint noise made by slippered feet in the oil-clothed hall. Aunt Rachel The superintendent lit a cigar after he had replaced the receiver, and thoughtfully toasted his slippered feet before the fire. The Grell Mystery Cautiously he changed the position of his slippered feet. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sam Twitty made a motion as if he would dance a little in his slippered feet. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Now that she was successfully landed upon the desired level and needed its support no longer, would she kick it aside entirely, with one flick of her slippered foot? The Brentons Once, when she dropped her napkin and Sampey picked it up, his hand accidentally touched one of her daintily slippered feet, and his blushes were painful to see. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People After some time a little old gentleman in a red nightcap and flowered dressing-gown, with slippered feet, and spectacles on nose, entered the hall, followed by another in black, apparently his clerk. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure His father was all curtained in; his slippered feet on the fender of the blazing hearth, his head cushioned to a nicety, the long paper-knife across his knees. Clayhanger She wears a petticoat or skirt of a naming bright colour, very short, showing her well-turned but stockingless ankles, with her small slippered feet. The Rifle Rangers Also, like his captain, he wore no stockings on his slippered feet. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story There was some little shock, but not much; their bodies swung clear of the tree—he with his head down, and she with her slippered feet almost touching the wet grass. The Corner House Girls at School Patty threw herself into a big armchair, in front of the blazing log fire, and contentedly held out her slippered feet to the glowing warmth. Patty Blossom He waved a hand to his brother of the looking-glass and slippered away, groaning and sniggering to himself. Little Novels of Italy The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 In Jeannette's room by a blazing fire the girls held brief session, sitting with unbound hair and swinging slippered feet, and cheeks still flushed with the night's gayety. Under the Country Sky If he does seem to enjoy the rather feeble joke or incident as much as the other sort, that may be natural in a book of ease, whether slippered or not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 Then I saw a vision of snowy arms, voluptuous forms, and light fantastic slippered feet, all whirling and floating in the mazes of the misty dance. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales But even so, I would like to feel at home on my own roof and have a slippered familiarity with my slates and spouts. Journeys to Bagdad Mechanically she put one daintily slippered, very neat foot, considering the weight it helped to carry, beyond her skirts, and stretched it towards the fire. A Houseful of Girls These, fastened round her ankles with clasps of rubies, fell again over her small slippered feet. Tancred Or, The New Crusade "Go, go," she chortled, thumping the prostrate form of Mr. Clark with her slippered feet and smiling with excusable vanity at the new arrivals. Ethel Morton's Holidays Roma's slippered foot was beating the floor fast, but the Baron went on in his cool and tranquil tone. The Eternal City Give me a horse that nears the age of slippered pantaloon and is, moreover, phlegmatic in his tastes, and then, as the stories say 111“with tightened girth and feet well home”—but enough! Journeys to Bagdad A well-directed kick of her dainty little slippered foot sent the sacrilegious animal flying on the entrance of the two invaders. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Her slippered feet crossed the hall lightly; she was beside the green door. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Byrne, pyjama-clad and in slippered feet, shuffled out to join the party as the guard, with rifles at ready, bored their way out to the front, the dogs still suspiciously sniffing and growling. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier The door opened softly, and Bruno, in shirt-sleeves and slippered feet, came on tiptoe into the room. The Eternal City In three or four minutes the old woman hobbled back, shuffling slippered feet along the tiled path between the gate and the low whitewashed house. The Golden Silence There was a rush of slippered feet through the corridor, a hum of excited voices, and both Dr. Waller and the attendant darted for the door. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier That tap of the slippered foot, on the edge of the shining fender, was the gentle stimulant she administered to her pony's flank as he leaped forward to win the race. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 Then, his eyes finding the prettily slippered and stockinged feet, he moved with her to the side of the road where the ground was harder. Wolf Breed He rubbed one slippered toe against his calf and winked at Terry, looking vastly innocent and boyish. Man to Man Judith asked no man to aid her in mounting her horse; Marcia coquettishly slipped a daintily slippered foot into a man's palm, rising because of his strength. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch The noonday sun was blazing right overhead, and the muddy water running all over slippered feet and dainty dresses. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War In his hand he carries a palmetto-leaf basket, already half full, as with slippered feet he carefully picks his way among puddles and garbage. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Comes a clatter of slippered heels on the hall floor and in bustles my Lady Kirke, bejewelled and befrilled and beflounced till I had thought no mortal might bend in such massive casings of starch. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The untidy host, more untidy than ever here in the full light, dragged his slippered feet across the threadbare carpet to a corner cupboard, from which he took a bottle and two glasses. Man to Man They were bareheaded and in slippered feet, as usual, but had abandoned the favorite ulster, which too often accompanies extremities thus unclad, to display their gayest gowns. Russian Rambles There was a sound of laughing voices and the patter of slippered feet on the stairs, and Mabel Ashe, accompanied by Frances Marlton, Constance Fuller, and two other juniors, appeared on the landing. Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College No one had ever heard her little slippered feet; even her high heels never tapped the thresholds. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The marshal kicked the brute impatiently with his slippered foot as she entered, and, strange to relate, the wolf slunk past him with the cowed air of a dog conscious of having deserved punishment. The Black Douglas He sat down now in a big chair and stuck his slippered feet out to the warmth. The Second Honeymoon They were allowed with grace To kiss his slippered feet; With Kaupa, face to face, The Pope then deigned to meet. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse The doctor held a hand out and grabbed Manuel's slippered toe. Eastern Standard Tribe The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Familiar Quotations The Dead and Dusty Past Gower sat in a deep grass chair, a pipe sagging one corner of his mouth, his slippered feet crossed on a low stool. Poor Man's Rock As I loitered in my room, I heard the shuffling of slippered feet in the hall, and a timid knock at Polly's door. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm And she had a pang of jealousy when she saw the rector, usually so careful of his health, hasten with slippered feet and uncovered head, through the wet, chilling atmosphere, to speak to them. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Then, far in the night, as it might have seemed to the little boy, came the step of slippered feet. The Seeker Miss Palliser hesitated, crossed one knee over the other, and sat gently swinging her slippered foot and looking at her nephew. The Firing Line He sat down in his grass chair and hummed a little tune, the while one slippered foot kept time, rat-a-pat, on the floor of the porch. Poor Man's Rock Johnson," The Author was saying as I passed, my slippered feet making no sound, "Johnson, that Sophy woman intrigues me. A Woman Named Smith "And Gabriel—where is Gabriel?" asked he, still shaking the slippered foot. Trumps "You will get no good out of those taters," said she, and slippered away. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary And springing to his own slippered feet, the venerable sage hurried to the door and shot-to the bolt. Israel Potter She was dressed in white, her pale gold hair was in itself an aristocracy, and her narrow slippered feet were dainty to look upon. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages The editor of the "Democrat" was an extremely stout person, who sprawled at ease in a battered swivel chair, with his slippered feet thrown across a desk littered with newspapers, clippings, letters, and manuscript. A Hoosier Chronicle Her husband said nothing, but shook his slippered foot, and his neck sunk a little lower in his limp, white cravat. Trumps The gown tail curled around her slippered foot damp from the plunge in the garden. Lazarre As he did so, Harleston's slippered foot shot out and drove hard into the other's stomach. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse He sat down, and leaning back in his leather-covered chair, stretched forth his legs and crossed his slippered feet. The Colossus A Novel They sat very demurely with their hands clasped, and their slippered feet crossed, and applauded politely at the proper times. Marjorie's Maytime She stood, little slippered feet planted sturdily in the first position in dancing, fat, bare arms protruding from the kimona, her work-stained fingers linked together in front of her. The Younger Set “Perhaps,” he answered, with one of his peculiar smiles; and then he started me by saying that he would never be a “lean and slippered pantaloon.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Old happiness is grey as we, And we may still outstrip her; If we be slippered pantaloons, Oh let us hunt the slipper! Greybeards at Play The little half angry, half weary frown drew her eyebrows together, and she sat for a minute restlessly tapping her slippered foot upon the floor. The Wheel of Life Every legal holiday was observed in true Dry Lake manner, to the tune of violins and the swish-swish of slippered feet upon a more-or-less polished floor. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories That is, the door had been locked for a long, long time; but presently, to her intense surprise and annoyance, it slowly opened, and a little man appeared in slippered feet. The Younger Set He was lounging back with his slippered feet resting on the burnished steel foot-rests of the stove. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest "Not a wash, nothing," Davies supplemented grimly, as he shook hands with Charley Drexel, who yawned and slippered up to them in pajamas. Dutch Courage and Other Stories The wind blew sharply against her, and the pavement was cold to her slippered feet. Sandy In the same glance she caught a glimpse of a figure, retreating hastily, with slippered shuffle, followed by the trailing tappings of braces off duty. Mount Music For some minutes Miss Vernon gave no response, sitting upon the arm of the chair, a perplexed pucker on her brow and a thoughtful swing to her slippered foot. Nedra His slippered feet shuffled over the floor as he moved towards the window. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Her long, slippered feet, thrust out, pointed at him, watching. The Tree of Heaven Very good meals are dished up by the chowkee-dar at this bungalow, who seems an intelligent and enterprising fellow; but the lean and slippered punkah-wallah is a far less satisfactory part of the accommodation. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama He heard a silken rustling and the tap of slippered feet. Romance Island Pausing before he knocked, Claudius heard the soft step of slippered feet. The Son of Clemenceau His slippered feet were posted on the lower part of the self-feeding stove and he gazed down, deep in thought, at the lurid glow of the fire shining through the mica sides of the firebox. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest There was a stir at the door and on her shuffling, slippered feet old Miriam entered, handing some packages to Madame de Coulevain. The Fortieth Door Ezra sat listless by the open door; One chair careened him at an angle meet, Another nursed his hugely slippered feet; Upon a third reposed a shirt-sleeved arm, And the whole man diffused tobacco's charm. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell "O, my patience!" screamed Sadie, as the water splashed over her, even down to the white stockings and daintily slippered feet. Ester Ried They move about quietly and their slippered feet make no sound. Profiles from China The front player now puts his slippered hands upon the table and begins to keep time, while the other performer follows suit with his hands. My Book of Indoor Games He slippered out through the hall and through the surgery to the side door, I following, and Titus sneezing and snuffing in the rear. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories She stopped, her slippered foot tapping the marble floor impatiently. The Lady of Big Shanty To her husband's continued and stentorian evidences of sleep she tiptoed to the adjoining bedroom, slippered feet sloughing as she walked. Every Soul Hath Its Song The poet spoke yet more, but in the end his excited stridulous accents fell on Reb Shemuel's ears as a storm without on the ears of the slippered reader by the fireside. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Then he decided that the sounds were not those of a washing-cloth, but of slippered feet. The Roll-Call Edward Henry leaped from his chair, and the swansdown quilt swathed his slippered feet. The Regent For some moments he watched her in silence, she breathing in nervous gasps, her slippered feet pressed hard in the soft rug. The Lady of Big Shanty He was a "grand-looking" gentleman, arrayed in a flowered silk dressing-gown, with a cap of velvet on his head; and as he stepped toward her, in his slippered feet, he showed a very handsome leg. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 The noonday sun was blazing right overhead and the muddy water running all over slippered feet and dainty dresses. Strange True Stories of Louisiana What in the name of decent propriety was that slippered old man doing with a baby? The Roll-Call He placed a pillow under her head, and spread a gay-striped serape over her, and tucked it carefully around her slippered feet. Starr, of the Desert The Chinese minister touched a bell and another Chinese servant appeared, his slippered feet making no noise. The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies In the chancel, upon the gospel side, is a finely-carved tomb, with recumbent figures of an armoured knight and richly-robed lady, whose slippered feet push against the effigy of a particularly alert, sharp-muzzled little hound. Deadham Hard The waiter looked puzzled, shuffled his slippered feet, and murmured something about "oeufs sur le plat." In the Days of My Youth The slippered feet of the happy girl, as she slowly mounted the stair alone, overburdened with the weight of her blissful reverie, made no sound. The Grandissimes They all came trooping with naked or slippered feet that slid in the wet redness of the floor. The Flying Legion The harp was shrouded and dumb upon the platform, the oaken floor polished and dark with the night-long slide of slippered feet. The Gringos I see the shapes of girls who pass Eager to heed desire's insistent call: Ah, little dark girls, who in slippered feet Go prowling through the night from street to street. The Book of American Negro Poetry She wriggled up and sat erectly on the edge of the davenport, one slippered foot dangling just above the other. The Blood Red Dawn After tea he spent his evening luxuriantly, sitting close to the fire, with his slippered feet upon the fender, and drinking hot rum-and-water as a preventive of impending, or cure of incipient, cold. Fenton's Quest As she passed near the girl's slippered foot it darted out, tripped her and would have sent her headlong, but she caught by the lamp table. Kincaid's Battery The door, to her surprise, was partly open; entering—the tread of her slippered feet was noiseless—she beheld an astonishing spectacle. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Nick heard the muffled voices hush, and then a shuffling tramp of slippered feet came up the outer stair. Master Skylark She might have heard Jules's slippered feet running from the street into the corridor and up-stairs, had she not been so deaf. Balcony Stories The sound of slippered feet was distinctly heard on the stones in the outer corridor. Further Foolishness Jacobs, who is content merely to serve the purpose of those slippered hours. An Englishman Looks at the World The merchants are grave men, they move softly and slowly on their fat slippered feet, pausing from time to time in confidential talk. In Morocco I sit in my luxurious chair; Soft rugs caress my slippered feet; Within, a balmy, summer air; Without, a wintry storm of sleet. Poems Dropping his slippered foot on the ground, and, yawning heavily, he struggled into a sitting posture, and turned his dull languid eyes towards his friend, to whom he called in a drowsy voice. Nicholas Nickleby Meanwhile a slippered attendant had entered and placed a cushion for the secretary, and in front of it a little Persian stool on which he put a quaint cup filled with coffee black as ink. Further Foolishness Evadna made it in a jump, just as the boys did, and landed lightly upon her slippered feet. Good Indian Night and Sleep The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Men, Women and Ghosts Waking in the night, perhaps, she would tremble at the thought of his coming home and angrily rejecting it, and would hurry down with slippered feet and quickly beating heart, and bring it away. Dombey and Son Now there was sound again—that of a softly moved slippered foot. The Shuttle He was a "lean and slippered pantaloon in Shakespeare's last stage"; and he, Butler, would have been a lunatic to have confided in such a man. A Book of Remarkable Criminals He continued to sit there, his slippered foot on a low chair, his cane between his fingers, and she glanced at him from time to time. The Song of the Lark From the stairway came the patter of a man's slippered feet. Miss Billy's Decision Thorpe himself called the room his "snuggery," and spent many hours there in slippered comfort, smoking and gazing contentedly into the fire. The Market-Place His eyeballs were living fire; his nostrils steamed with fury; well, then, at the precise moment, Jarocho put his slippered feet between his horns, and vaulted, light as a bird flies, over his back. Remember the Alamo She had not heard his approach, for his slippered feet made no noise in passing over the rich velvet carpet. Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" He was standing facing his half-open door, and outside on the stone steps he heard the soft, even footfall of slippered feet, and the gentle rustling of a woman's gown. The Avenger There was silence within the house, and then a whisper, a stir, the padding of a slippered foot, and the door was jerked open. Harrigan "Of money you mean, Toad," she answered, kicking him with her slippered foot. Fair Margaret But you cannot jibe at the worn old soldiers as "lean and slippered pantaloons." Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Whisperings, a raucous laugh, a curse, the clink of coin, the rattle of dice, the scuffle of slippered feet, the low swish of the loose-garbed Chinese attendants went on interminably. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Captain Charlie was ticklish and the toe of Mary's slippered foot had found a vital spot among his ribs. Helen of the Old House Footfalls became audible on the staircase—the hasty scuffling of slippered feet. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama The old man shuffled his slippered feet upon the bare boards, looking with mild ecstasy at the coins. The Far Horizon He knocked his pipe against the wall and ground out the life of the coal with his slippered heel. The Sisters-In-Law Then there was a slippered foot on the stair, and somebody knocked. The Christian A Story Slowly the legate, followed by the two Roman youths, advanced down the hall, the soft pad of his slippered feet and the rustle of his silken robes being at first the only sound. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series "I have no such mad intention," said the other with a laugh, and turning them over with her pretty slippered foot. Fan : the story of a young girl's life The night is a sultana who doth rise In slippered caution, to admit a prince, Love, who her eunuchs and her lord defies. Poems A commercial traveller had drawn off his boots, and was warming his slippered feet by the fire. A Mummer's Wife And at once all the three little Chinamen mounted the irons and curled their tiny slippered feet under them. Half-Past Seven Stories Phronsie gave a sigh and thoughtfully drew her slippered foot over the pattern of the carpet. Five Little Peppers Grown Up He led the way out of the reception-room, and tripped lightly in his slippered feet up the steps against which Barker knocked the toes of his clumsy boots. The Minister's Charge So David went to Edith, and they had a clear hour together before they heard the colonel's slippered tread hobbling through the hall. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales From beneath the full skirt peeped a little slippered foot, which tapped the floor rhythmically as the chair rocked to and fro. The Claim Jumpers She knew the step; for she had long ago trained her slippered feet to keep pace with it. Men, Women, and Ghosts Then, with slippered feet and with hushed whispers, they stole into the heart of the place. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War His legs, like the whole of his person, had a distinguished air; and he held up first one slippered foot and then the other to the silent, sham-ecstatic inspection of the girls. Hilda Lessways His knees shook, so that the shuffling of his slippered feet became audible. Three John Silence Stories If he picks the wrong fork for the salad, he knows That fact by the feel of his wife's slippered toes. When Day is Done Clara was always a bit of a romp, and, with never a thought of her daintily slippered feet, she flung her trailing dress over one arm and was off over the three-inch snow. Men, Women, and Ghosts Having closed the door and shut those friendly countenances out from view, Hugh Price raised his slippered feet and placed them on the stool before him, and smoked in silence. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story "No!" she answered, stamping one little slippered foot on the floor. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established III At a quarter before midnight, clad in a heavy ulster, and with slippered feet, I crept cautiously from my room and stole down the passage to the top of the stairs. Three John Silence Stories Never for him the slippered ease of middle age, the pursuit of bourgeois virtues, of which he had so fondly dreamed in Meyrueis. Alias the Lone Wolf She was seated on a very low chair, exposing a slippered foot to the flame of a wood fire. The Sowers I bid you—for I see you in a slippered state, eased and unbuttoned after dinner—I bid you turn the pages with a slow thumb, not to miss the slightest tang of their humor. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come He swayed from side to side, and raised himself on his toes, and creaked his slippered heels jocosely, and smiled upon me, and lost himself in agreeable musings. Memories of Hawthorne The Major chuckled as he settled himself in his easy chair and stretched out his slippered feet. The Battle Ground Soon there would be the tapping of slippered heels on the walk of broken paving-stones outside, and for the time they would forget all these disturbances. Queen Lucia His slippered feet were on the mantelpiece, and he was restoring his wasted tissues with a strong whisky-and-soda. The Little Warrior She thought of what she would say to-night at this revel, faintly prestiged already by the sounds of high and low laughter and slippered footsteps, and movements of couples up and down the stairs. Tales of the Jazz Age Reading the "Times" in his easy chair, With his slippered feet on the fender bright, Little, I wot, he dreams how fair Are the pictures I see in the fire to night. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Across the passage he could hear her slippered feet pacing up and down, up and down the length of her apartment. The Moccasin Maker She pointed a slippered toe at the stair below her; swayed on one leg; dropped to the toe; steadied; beamed at Mr. Marrapit; and in a high treble coquettishly announced, "One!" Once Aboard the Lugger Without an instant's hesitation, he stepped out and placed his slippered foot on the narrow tread of the iron ladder. The Boy Scouts on a Submarine Mary Cary drew the big wing chair closer to the fire and sat upon its arm, one slippered foot on the fender. Miss Gibbie Gault She leaned forward in the seat, arms outstretched as if holding a tugging wheel, eyes set straight ahead, slippered feet threading imaginary levers, graceful body swerving. The Perils of Pauline Her slippered feet made no noise, and when she reached the chamber-door she saw her husband kneeling before the fire, which was just beginning to burn brightly. Bricks Without Straw They descended from the motor, and Samuel had glimpses of ribbons and ruffles, of shapely ankles and daintily slippered feet. Samuel the Seeker Heeding neither, nor the instant wetting of her slippered feet, she struggled on through the waxing drifts to the stable door. Janice Meredith Felicity frowned at him, and the Story Girl touched her with her slippered foot to remind him that he must not talk in church. The Story Girl She did not realize how late it was when at last she put down her pen and moved with soft, slippered steps to the door of the cabin. The Perils of Pauline So the huge dome of Kharvani's temple began to echo to the sound of slippered feet and awe-struck whisperings, and the big, dim auditorium soon filled to overflowing. Told in the East "I think it's a problem play," said Nan, laughing anew at the excited visitor, who had returned to the swing, and was vigorously pushing herself back and forth with her slippered toe. Patty's Butterfly Days Now suddenly grey beard and slippered pantaloons are cast aside and I am young again with a glow in my heart which beats fast at her beauty. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Arrayed in a comfortable crimson silk wrapper, the girl sat before the fire, with her slippered foot upon the fender, and gazed steadily and thoughtfully into the fantastic coals. Leah Mordecai She kept her eyes fixed on the coals in front of her and put out the tips of her little slippered feet. Love, the Fiddler The young, flower- crowned head, the slender, slippered feet, the youthful and appealing voice—what weapons had she against these? The Heart of Rachael Julia herself was sitting before the fire now, one slippered foot to the blaze. The Story of Julia Page Suddenly I heard her give a bound, then the sound of a heavy lid falling and then, after a minute or two of complete silence, the soft pat-pat of her slippered feet descending the stair. The Mayor's Wife Mr. Orne was saying, "As your manager, Britt—" Mr. Britt scowled at Mr. Files, and the latter slap-slupped on his slippered way; it was certainly news that Britt had taken on a manager. When Egypt Went Broke When Olga reappeared, she was gorgeous in flowing tea-gown; her tawny hair hung low in artful profusion; her neck and arms were bare, her feet brilliantly slippered. The Crown of Life Next door a man had run out in his shirt sleeves: this time a young, dark-headed collier running to the gate for a newspaper, running bare-headed, coatless, slippered in the rain. Aaron's Rod In a little time I heard a shuffle of slippered feet and some one pausing at the open door. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Molly had turned the handle quietly, and her slippered feet made no sound. The Intrusion of Jimmy In the distance of the moonbeams, gliding slowly over the dusty road with slippered feet, there was something soft and radiant in their moving whiteness. The Garden of Allah "And we," said they, "when he spake to us such words slippered him and turned him out and now he never cometh near us." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 Within the Square itself, along paths that had once echoed to the tread of slippered feet, armed sentries paced, their sharp challenges breaking the stillness of the night. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn For a spell there was silence, broken only by the soft fall of his slippered feet and the swish of his silken purple. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro He crossed and sat on a corner of Larry's table, one slippered foot dangling, and looked Larry over with an appraising eye. Children of the Whirlwind A rat, he thought, and drew himself to a sitting attitude, and beat his slippered heels upon the ground to drive away the loathly creature. The Sea-Hawk We find the phrase "he slippered the merchant" in old diaries, e.g. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 Even Dong Ling slippered up-stairs and presented a weird Chinese banner which he said he was "velly much glad" to give. Miss Billy The countess sat with her slippered feet upon the fender. The Puppet Crown Old as he was, and in some things almost childish, nevertheless, he thought of this keenly, and some half-realised remembrance of "the lean and slippered pantaloon" flitted across his mind, causing him a pang. The Last Chronicle of Barset They hear strange voices in a London street, And track the silver gleam of rushing feet; And these are things that come not to the view Of slippered dons who read a codex through. Forty-Two Poems He tried to imagine her daintily slippered, clad in white, with her loose hair gathered in a Psyche knot; or in evening dress, with arms and throat bare; but the pictures were difficult to make. A Mountain Europa She had thrown herself languidly on the sofa; her hair was slightly disarranged, and part of a slippered foot was visible. The Twins of Table Mountain Take it back again—would that I could have preserved your fatherless speech in the telling—take it back, and by your slippered hearth read it to the late Miss Deercourt. The Story of the Gadsbys After five minutes of irksome, constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet rapidly approaching. War and Peace Mrs. Rylands's voice was rather forced and crudely trained, but Joshua Rylands, sitting there comfortably slippered by the fire and conscious of the sheeted rain against the window, felt it good. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Her feet were slippered, and she wore black stockings. A Mountain Europa Mr. Chase marked a pattern on the floor with his slippered foot. Mary-'Gusta As for Captain West, the perils of Le Maire behind, he sat below, his slippered feet stretched before him, smoking a cigar. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Take it back again—would that I could have preserved your fetterless speech in the telling—take it back, and by your slippered hearth read it to the late Miss Deercourt. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition When she emerged again she was smartly stockinged and slippered, and even the blue serge skirt was exchanged for a bright print, with a white fichu tied around her throat. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales We play it when babies, we play it when boys and girls, we play it when men and women, we play it as, lean and slippered, we totter towards the grave. Three Men on the Bummel "She had better sleep in the guest room," he said, thoughtfully, regardless of the cold which struck to his slippered feet from the marble floor. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) Assuring himself once again that the pistol lay in his pocket, he fumbled for the lever which opened the door, found it, depressed it, and stepped quietly forward in his slippered feet. The Yellow Claw He was holding one slippered foot in his hand and appeared to be submitting it to some form of massage. Piccadilly Jim She was holding up her train, and showing her thin ankles, black stockings, and slippered feet. Resurrection "The poor man thinks I invited him here to propose to him," she told the fire gravely, stretching out her little slippered feet toward it. The Vision Splendid He discussed great affairs of state with one of those slippered feet flung up on to a corner of his desk. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War The patter of the slippered feet grew faint upon the stair; then, as Leroux reached the landing above, became inaudible altogether. The Yellow Claw Some would be for transforming the beautiful solitary vestal flame by the first effort of the multiplication-table into your hearth-fire of slippered affection. The Egoist Very faintly, but distinctly now, came a pad of either slippered or bare feet on the stairway carpet. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Bud, twisting his head, saw a pair of slippered feet beside the running board. Cabin Fever The butler slippered out of the room, and the man and the woman sat on, gazing into each other's eyes. The Night-Born |
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