sandal
noun
a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
unsandalled
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a word derived from
sandal.
Example Sentences
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This is the high place of Chinese devotion, and the thoughtful visitor feels that he ought to tread its courts with unsandalled feet, for no vulgar idolatry has entered here.
From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. Ellinwood
"Rests she not well whose pilgrim staff and shoon Lie in her tent—for on the golden street She walks and stumbles not on roads star strewn With her unsandalled feet."
From Winter Evening Tales by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
‘It was the ocean nymphs who came to comfort Prometheus—and unsandalled, too, if I recollect right,’ said Lancelot, smiling at Sabina.
From Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley
Where the gods have trodden, let mortals walk unsandalled.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
He goes into the penetralia of your life,—not presumptuously, but with uncovered head, unsandalled feet, and pours libations at the innermost shrine.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
