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Then he hunted the boot-jack, and drew off one boot; changed his mind, and flung himself into the smoking-chair, and stretched booted and unbooted foot to the blaze.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

Henry III., indeed, had taken horse at the Tuileries, and, attended by his principal councillors, unbooted and cloakless, had issued from the New gate, and set out on the road to St. Cloud.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

Her lamp shone upon the unbooted feet of a man.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.

"This time I was not alone in my tale," said the goodman; "and now to make an end, shall thou go through the freeing by law, for in nowise will I have this shame unbooted."

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by Morris, William

There I unbooted and swayed into my berth, which endured me, perforce, for the next twenty-four hours.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace