Example Sentences

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She put out the tips of her unstockinged toes.

From Highacres by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

She started up—tore off her cap and her night-dress, and thrust her unstockinged feet in a pair of slippers that stood near the bed.

From The Old Homestead by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

He is out of bed most of the night, and in unstockinged feet paces the room in apparently not too good a mood.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

They wore the same parti-colored handkerchiefs wound gracefully around their heads, the same gingham or muslin dresses, and exposed similar, if not the same, bare arms, and unstockinged legs.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Upon the gleaming deck, blackly outlined against a wondrous sky, stood a man who wore a blue greatcoat over his pyjamas, and whose unstockinged feet were thrust into red slippers.

From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Rohmer, Sax