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He goes into the penetralia of your life,—not presumptuously, but with uncovered head, unsandaled feet, and pours libations at the innermost shrine.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

She had sought for pleasure only in the society of Glinski; it was a cruel disappointment, it was a frightful surprise, to find herself thrust suddenly, with unsandaled feet, on the thorny path of ambition.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various