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My boots, once objects of the tenderest care of their unworthy namesake, seemed conscious of the change, and drooped in untreed wretchedness, desponding at the wretched wrinkles now ruffling the once smooth calf!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various

The sponge-bag trousers are unrolled, the elastic-sided boots untreed, the made-up tie dusted.

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford