Two minutes later — two hectic minutes — they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
And he later wrote a poem called "Passage to India" in which he talks about things like the laying of the Atlantic cable, the telegraph cable, between America and England, and the transcontinental railroad that met in Utah in 1869 -- all these advances, technological advances, which maybe to us look a little bit primitive -- the rubber overshoe and the icebox and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography] Reference
Men can walk water who are willing to take a boat for an overshoe. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Forces] Reference
Try a piece of overshoe, with a bone in it, for my beefsteak, likely. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883] Reference
I pick up every overshoe and know whose it is, but I can't find my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
The Mantra is available with a specific overshoe that fits the sole perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Singletrack Magazine] Reference
Then he heard voices and felt someone tugging on his overshoe, pulling him clear. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference
My legs are stiff, and my legging has frozen fast to my overshoe; I remember that. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Mouse Stories] Reference
Betty called it -- the losing of the cold-cream bottle and the finding of same in madam's overshoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation] Reference
That was a big, squashy man, the colour of a rubber overshoe, and he had an eye like a head waiter's. From Wordnik.com. [Cabbages and Kings] Reference
Margaret said, propping herself against the house with one hand, while she pulled at a tight overshoe. From Wordnik.com. [Mother : A Story] Reference
The mud was deep and thick, and she lost an overshoe; but with the help of a stick she pried it out, and replaced it. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Cardinal] Reference
One day I noticed an odor that reminded me of a hot overshoe trying to smother a glue factory at the close of a tropical day. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
Other places the thinner snow has departed and left behind it mud that seizes upon your overshoe with an "Oh, what's your rush?". From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
Reinventing the clunky footwear, he developed a sleeker overshoe inspired by the shape of a classic tuxedo show and suitable for urban. From Wordnik.com. [Cool Hunting] Reference
I haven't looked up our family tree, but I believe we were raised by grafting a gum overshoe on to a 30-cent table d'hote stalk of asparagus. From Wordnik.com. [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference
Even the little quick, forward lurch of his shoulders in the chair sent the girl scuttling to her feet again, one overshoe still in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Make-Believe] Reference
Two minutes later -- two hectic minutes -- they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
"Yes, I remember," nodded the Squire; then he added with a complacent smile: "The mischievous little lad used my overshoe for a fish-pond once -- I have that overshoe yet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tangled Threads] Reference
Wee Tommy, who was a little heavier sleeper than the others, could find nothing to put on but one overshoe and an old chest protector of his mother's, but he arrived at the front, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Sowing Seeds in Danny] Reference
She became suddenly more acutely aware of the dreary flapping of her wet skirts against her ankles, and of the swish of the water as it sucked itself into the hole at the heel of her left overshoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Tangled Threads] Reference
When the wood road led into a clearing in which there was a rough little house of slabs, the child stopped altogether, and, looking down, began nervously to draw lines in the snow with her overshoe. From Wordnik.com. [Understood Betsy] Reference
Susan caught cold from a worn-out overshoe, and spent an afternoon and a day in bed, enjoying the rest from her aching head to her tired feet, but protesting against each one of the twenty trips that Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday's Child] Reference
In either case, the result was equally grotesque; Kate found her dainty feet neatly enclosed in the professor's ungainly arctics, while he hopelessly contemplated her overshoe and the size of his own foot. From Wordnik.com. ['Way Down East A Romance of New England Life] Reference
After a campus-wide contest to name the school's athletic teams in 1925, freshman Margaret Hamlin won ten dollars for her suggestion of "Zippers" after a popular rubber overshoe of the same name made by local company B.F. Goodrich. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
I suppose that the author of this test would insist on calling a picture wrong which showed a baby with a safety-razor in his hand or an overshoe on his head, and yet a photograph of the Public Library could not be more true to life. From Wordnik.com. [Love Conquers All] Reference
She had not got at all wet when standing under the window, and had said so only as a pretext to get him to let her in. but she really had stepped into the puddle at the door, and her left foot was wet up to the ankle and her overshoe full of water. From Wordnik.com. [Father Sergius] Reference
When she came close and looked in she beheld indistinct forms racing up and down to the figure of the dance, the silence of their footfalls rising from their being overshoe in 'scroff' -- that is to say, the powdery residuum from the storage of peat and other products the stirring of which by their turbulent feet created the nebulosity that involved the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
When she came close and looked in she beheld indistinct forms racing up and down to the figure of the dance, the silence of their footfalls arising from their being overshoe in "scroff" -- that is to say, the powdery residuum from the storage of peat and other products, the stirring of which by their turbulent feet created the nebulosity that involved the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
A little heavier sleeper than the others, could find nothing to put on but one overshoe and an old chest protector of his mother's, but he arrived at the front, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Sowing Seeds in Danny] Reference
They fall off every moment! "grumbled she, and for some minutes she struggled with that overshoe, which, dropping from her foot, slipped along the floor noisily. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonauts] Reference
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