A light shoe or slipper, with a very thick ribbed worsted sock over it, put into an india-rubber golosh, which is kept on by a high spring gaiter. From Wordnik.com. [The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada] Reference
Aunt Emily slowly removed one big golosh, then waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
And all at once the golosh grows, swells, fills up the whole room. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference
A golosh looked like a roller skate and was about as easy to walk with. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
She wished she had not been so playful in flinging her golosh into the path. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
Aunt Emily removed the other golosh -- a shade more quickly than the first one. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
But the water, just the snake of water, was amusing, and she flung her golosh at it to dam it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
She sits down on the floor, cleans the goloshes, and thinks how nice it would be to put her head into a big deep golosh, and have. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference
Winking with his red, frozen eyes, Yegor Ivanitch stamped on the floor with his golosh boots and swung his arms together like a frozen cabman. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference
My wife in a short fur-lined jacket, and in men's high golosh boots, would make her appearance twice a day, and she always said the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference
Zotov pretended not to notice her, but when she faintly wagged her tail, and, wriggling as before, licked his golosh, he stamped his foot angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference
Flinging wide his arms and shrugging at the cold, he skipped along, knocking one golosh against the other, evidently in haste to get out of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference
They had been so clearly absorbed in one another that she had fled on guiltily to Agnes, golosh in hand, without waiting to put it on; confident, however, that neither. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
As he got near the pavilion the mayor fell into a little tripping trot, waved his hands, and, taking a run, slid along the ice in his huge golosh boots up to the very door. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference
They had been so clearly absorbed in one another that she had fled on guiltily to Agnes, golosh in hand, without waiting to put it on; confident, however, that neither Elsmere nor. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
The beggar drew it towards him, breathed on his frozen hands, and again drew the axe along it as cautiously as though he were afraid of its hitting his golosh or chopping off his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference
There were no descending footmarks, but one of the spots of wax close to the balusters had been trodden on while warm and soft, and bore the mark of the front of the heel of a golosh descending the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
Grumbling and talking to himself, Zotov put on his overcoat, which was like a crinoline, and, thrusting his feet into huge clumsy golosh-boots (made in the year 1867 by a bootmaker called Prohoritch), went out into the yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference
"And the gardener couldn't believe his eyes when he saw them, and he called Snubby, and Snubby asked him why he had sown golosh seed under the rhododendrons!. From Wordnik.com. [Working Without a Net] Reference
Season of the ripe golosh. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Methuselah] Reference
A golosh with holes in it in wet weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Party] Reference
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